The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-07

recrudescence of barbarism in one form
or another. Under any circumstances
a sufficient armament would have TO
be kept up to serve the purposes of
international police; and until inter-
national cohesion and the sense of in
formation duties and rights are far
more advanced than at present a ma
ton DESTROYS both of securing respect
for itself and of doing good to others
must have a force adequate for the
work which it feels is allotted to it
as its part of the general world duty.
therefore ii follows that a self-respect-
ing, just and far-seeing nation should
on the one hand endeavor by every
means to aid in the development of the
various movements which tend to pro-
vide substitutes for war, which tend
to render nations in their actions to-
ward one another, and indeed toward
their own peoples, more responsive to
the general sentiment of humane and
civilized mankind; and on the other
hand that it should keep prepared,
while scrupulously avoiding wrongdo-
ing itself, to repel any wrong, and
in exceptional cases to take action
which in a more advanced stage of in
ternational relations would come under
the head of the exercise of the inter-
national police. A great free people
owes 1t to itself and to all mankind
not to sink into helplessness before the
powers OF evil.
Arbitration Treaties.
We are in every way endeayoring 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 l shall shortly lay before the
Senate treaties of arbitration with all
Powers which are willing to enter into
these treaties with us. 1t is not pos
siole at this period of the worlds de-
Velopment to agree to arbitrate all
matters, but there are many matters
OF possible difference between us and
other nations which can be thus arbi-
trated, Furthermore, at the request of
the lnterparliamentary Union, an en-
ment body composed of practical
statesmen from all countries, l have
asked the Powers to join with this
government in a second Hague confer
ehce, at which it is hoped that the
work already so happily begun at The
hague may be carried some steps fur
ther toward completion. This carries
out the desire expressed BIZ the first
Hague conference itself.
Policy Toward Other Nations.
1t is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entertains
any projects as regards the other ma
tons of the Western hemisphere save
such as are for their welfare. All that
TINS country desires is to see the
nelghboring countries stable. orderly.
ana prosperous. Any country whose
people conduct themselves well can
count upon our hearty friendship. II
nation shows that it knows how to
act with reasonable efficiency and de-
cency in social and political matters.
If it keeps order and pays it's obliga-
tons, it need fear no interference from
the United States.
Chronic wrong-d doing, or an impo-
tence which results in a general loos-
ening of the ties of civilized society.
may in America, as elsewhere, ulti-
mately require Intervention by some
civilized nation, and in the Western
hemisphere the adherence of the Unit
ed States to the Monroe doctrine may
force the United States, however re-
luctantly, in fragrant cases of such
wrong-doing or impotence, to the ex-
ercise of an international police pow
er.