Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1904-12-08

and Porto Rico with recommendations
| for changes in the present system Of
government of the first named. He de-
sires to see q delegate from Alaska in
| congress.l
Foreign Policy.
| The steady aim of this nation. as OF
all enlightened nations, should be to
| strive to bring ever nearer the day
when there shall prevail throughout
| the world the peace of justice, but
there are kinds Of peace which are
| highly undesirable, which are in the
| long run as destructive as any war.
| The goal to set before us as nation,
| the goal which should be set before all
mankind, is the attainment of the
peace Of justice Of the peace which
| comes when each nation is not merely
safeguarded In it's own rights, but
scrupulously recognizes and performs
its duty toward others. Generally
| peace tells for Righteousness, but II
| there is conflict between the two then
our fealty is due first to the cause Of
| righteousness. Unrighteous wars are
| common and unrighteous peace is rare,
but both should be Stunned. The
right of freedom and the responsibility
| for the exercise of that right cannot be
| divorced. One Of our great poets has
we'll and finely said that freedom is not
q gift that tarries long in the hands OF
towards. Neither does it tarry long in
| the hands of those too Slothful, too dis
| honest or too unintelligent to exercise
| it. The eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty must be exercised
| sometimes to guard against outside
| foes although, of course, far more Of
| ten to guard against our own selfish or
| thoughtless shortcomings.
| 1t is our duty to remember that ma
| ton has no more right to do injustice
| to another nation, strong or weak, than
an Individual has to do injustice to en-
other individuals; that the same moral
law aDplies in one case as in the otter
But we must also remember that it is
as much the duty Of the nation to
| guard it's own rights and it's own inter
ests as it is the duty of the Individual
so to do. Until some method is devised
| by which there shall be a degree of i'll
ternational control over offending ma
| tons it would he a wicked thing for
| the most civilized powers, for those
| with most sense Of international obli-
| cations and with keencst and most gen
erous appreciation of the difference be-
tween right and wrong, to disarm. If
| the great civilized nations Of the pres
ent day should completely disarm, the
| result would mean an immediate re-
| crudesccrce of barbarfsm in one form
| or another. Under any circumstances a
| sufficient armament would have to be
| kept up to serve the purposes Of inter-
national police, and until international
| cohesion and the sense of international
| duties and rights are far more adj
| vanced than at present nation desir-
GUS both Of securing respect for itself
| and of doing good to others must have
| q force adequate for the work which it
feels is allotted to it as it's part of the
| general world duty. Therefore it fol-
lows that a self respecting, just and
| farseeing nation should on the one
hand endeavor by every means to aid
| In the development of the various
| movements which tend to provide sub
stitutes for war, which tend to render
| nations in their actions toward one an
other ana indeed toward their own
| peoples more responsive to the general
| sentiment of humane and civilized
mankind, and, on the other haIiti, that
| it should keep prepared, while scrupu-
lousy avoiding wrongdoing itself, to
| repel any wrong and i'll exceptional
cases to take action which in more
| advanced stage of international rela-
| lions would come under the head of
| the exercise of the international police.
Arbitration Treaties.
! We are in every way eldeavoring to
help on, with cordial good will, every
movement which will tend to bring us
into more friendly rel" ions with the
rest of mankind. In pursuance Of this
policy 1 shall shortly lay before the SEN
| ate treaties Of arbitratiJ. With all pow
treaties with US. it is not possible at
this period of the worlds development
to agree to arbitrate all matters, but
there are many matters of possible
difference between Us ana other na-
tons which can lie thus arbitrated.
Furthermore, at the request Of the in
terparliamentary union, an eminent
body composed Of practical statesmen
from all countries, | have asked the
powers to join with this government
in a second Hague conference, ut which
it is hoped that tie work already so
happily begun at The Hague may be
carried some steps further toward
completion. This carries out tie de-
sire expressed by the first Hague con-
ference itself.
Policy Toward other Nations of
Western Hen:sphe
It is not true that tie United States
feels any land hunger or entertains