The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-12-06

which SO many of the republics in
both Americas are constantly ami
brilliantly showing, all question of l.
reference by this Nation with their
affairs would be at an end Our inter-
ests and those of our southern neigh.
bors are in reality Identical. They
have great natural riches. and if with
in their borders the reign of the law
md justice obtains prosperity is sure
o come to them. While they mus:
rbey the primary laws of civilized so
ciety they may rest assured hat they
III be treated by us m a spirit OF cor
ial and helpful sympathy. We
would interfere with them only in
the last resort. and then only if it
became evident that their stability M
unwillingness to do justice at homo
the United States or had invited for
eigen aggression to the dctriment of
the entire body of American nations.
1t is a mere truism to say that every
nation. whether in America or any
where else, which desires to main
tain it's freedom, its independence.
must ultimately realize that the right
of such independence can not he sep
rated from the responsibility of MAX
ing good use of it.
In asserting the Monroe Doctrine,
in taking such steps as we nave taken
in regard to Cuba and Venezuela, and
Panama, and in ~endeavoring to cir
cumscribe the theater of war in the
Far East, and to secure the open door
in China, we have acted in our own
humanity at large. There are, how
ever, cases in which, while our own
interests are o greatly involved.
strong appeal is made TO our sympa-
thies. Ordinarily tits very much wis
er and more useful for us to concern
ourselves with striving for our own
at home than to concern ourselves
with trying to better The condition Of
things in other nations. We have
plenty of sins of our own to war
against, and under ordinary circum-
stances we can do more for the gen
eral uplifting of humanity by striy-
ing with heart and soul to put a stop
to- civic corruption, to brutal lawless
ness and violent race p~rejudices here
at home than by passing resolutions
about wrongdoing elsewhere. Never
theless there are occasional crimes
committed on so vast a scale aud Of
such peculiar horror as 10 make ua
doubt whether it is not our manifest
duty to endeavor at least to show
our disapproval of the deed and our
ed by it. The cases must be extreme
in which such a cOurSe is justifiable
There must be no effort made TO re
the mote from our brothers
Y if we refuse TO remove the beam
from our own. But N the extreme
cases action may be iustifiaOle and
shall take must depend upon the cir
cunStances of the case: that Is. up
on the degree Of the ~atrOcity and n.y.
on our power to remedy it. The cases
in which we could interfere by force
of arms as we interfered to put a stop
to intolerable conditions in Cuba are
to be expected that a people like ours
which in spite of certain very obvious
shortcomings, nevertheless as a whole
shows by its consistent practice its
belief in the principles of civil and
religious liberty and Of orderly free.
dom, a people among whom even tie
ing, is never more than sporadic, St
that individuals and not classes are
molested in their fundamental rights
it is inevitable that such a nation
should desire eagerly to give express
sion to it's horror on an occasion like
that of the massacre of the Jews in
KiShenef, or when it witnesses such
systematic and lo~ng-extended cruelty
and oppression as the cruelty and o7-
preston of which the Armenians have
been victims, and which have won
them the indignant pity of the
world.
of American Citizens Abroad
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