Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-12-15

| effort 60 secure Justice for Others or ius-
| tice for ourselves. save as conditioned
| upon the attitude we are willing to take
| toward our army and especially toward
| our navy. 1t is not merely unwise II Is
| contemplate, for mem. as for an in
| divdual, to use high sounding language
| to proclaim its purposes or to take 20
| sitlons which are ridiculous II unsupport.
| ed by potential force, and then to refuse
| to provide this force. If there Is no in.
| tention Of providing and of keeping the
| force necessary to back up strong atti-
| tude, then 1t Is far better not to assume
| such an attitude.
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. There are kinds OF
| peace which are highly undesirable
| which are In the long run as destructive
as any war Tyrants and oppressors have
| many times made n wilderness and called
| IL peace. The peace of tyrannous terror,
the peace of craven weakness the peace
OF injustice, all these should be Stunned
as we shun unrighteous war. The goal
to set before us as a nation, the goal
which should be set before all mankind.
| Is the attainment of the peace of jus
tice, OF the peace which comes when
each nation Is not merely safe-guarded
In Its own rights but scrupulousy rec
ognizts and performs its duty toward
lsothers.
There Is as yet no judicial way of en-
forcing a right in international law
| When one nation wrongs another or
wrongs many others, there is no tribu-
nal before which the wrongdoer can be
| brought. Either it is necessary supinely
to acquiesce in the wrong, and thus put
premium upon brutality and agrees
sion or else it is necessary for the ag-
srieved nation valiantly to stand up for
| its rights. Until some method is devised
by which there shall be a degree of in
ternational control over offending ma
| tions, 1t would be a wicked thing for
the most civilized powers, for those with
| most sense of international obligations
and with keenest and most generous APP
probation of the difference between right
and wrong, to disarm. If the great civ
ilized nations of the present day should
completely disarm the result would mean
an immediate recrudescence of barbar-
ism in one form or another.
Arbitration Treaties.
We are in every way endeavoring to
help on, with cordial good will, every
movement which will tend to bring us
into more friendly relations with the rest
Of mankind. In pursuance of this policy
{ shall shortly lay before the Senate
treaties of arbitration with all powers
which are willing to enter into these
treaties with us. Furthermore, at the
request of the Interparliamentary Union.
an eminent body composed of practical
statesmen from all countries, 1 have
asked the Powers to join with this gov
eminent in a second Hague conference,
at which it is hoped that the work al
ready so happily begun at The Hague
may be carried some steps further to-
ward completion. This carries out the
desire expressed by the first Hague con-
ference itself.
Policy on Western Hemisphere.
1t Is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entertains any
projects as regards the other nations of
the western hemisphere save such as are
for their welfare. All that this coun-
try desires is to the neighboring
countries stable, orderly, and prosperous.
Any country whose people conduct them
selves well can count upon our hearty
friendship. If a nation shows that 1t
knows how to act with reasonable eff
| cheney and decency in social and political
matters, IL 1t keeps or6er and pays its
obligations, it need fear no interference
| from the United States. Chronic wrong
doing. or an impotence which results in
a general loosenng of the ties of civil
lied society, may in America. else
where, ultimately require Intervention by
some civilized nation and in the western
hemisphere the adherents of the United
States to the Monroe doctrine may force
the United States. however reluctantly,
in fragrant cases of such wrongdoing
|
national police power
Our interests and those Of our south
ern neighbors are in reality Identical
They have great natural riches and If
within their borders the reign Of law and
Justice obtains. prosperity is sure to come
to them. While they thus obey the pri-
mary laws of civilized society they may
rest assured that they will be treated by
us in spirit of cordial and helpful sym
pathy. We would interfere with them
only In the last resort, and then only
If it became evident that their nabh4ty
or unwillngness to do justice at home
| and abroad had violated the rights of
| the United States or had invited foreign
aggression to the detriment of the en-
tire body of American nations.
In asserting the Monroe doctrine, in
taking such steps as we have taken in
regard to Cuba, Venezuela. and Panama.
, and in endeavoring to circumscribe the
, theater of war in the far East, and to
, secure the open door in China, we have
, acted in our own interest as well as in
the interest OF humanity at large. There
are, however, cases in which, while our
, | own interests are not greatly involved,
, | strong appeal is made to our Sympathies.
! | There are occasional crimes committed
, ! on vast a scale and of such peculiar
, | horror as to make US doubt whether 1t is
, | not our manifest duty to endeavor at
, | least to show cur disapproval of the deed
, | and our sympathy with those who have
| suffered by it, The cases must be ex-
| treme in which such a course is justi-
, | fable. But in extreme cases action may
, | be justifable and proper What form
, | the action shall take must depend upon
, | the circumstances of the case; that Is,
, | upon the degree of the atrocity and upon
! | our power to remedy it. The cases in
which we could interfere by force of
o | arms as we interfered to put a stop to
r | ntolerable conditions in Cuba are neces-
| snrilV few. Yet il is not to be X
| pected that a people like ours which in
: | spite of certain very obvious shortcom-
lngs. nevertheless as a whole shows by
y. | it's consistent practice it's belief in the
q principles of civil and religious liberty
= and of orderly freedom, a people among
. whom even the worst crime, like the
:. crime of lynchlng. is never more than
A sporadic. so that individuals and not
classes are moested in their fundamental
/, ghts--t Is inevitable that such a ma