The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-07
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL

sirable, which are in the long run as destructive as any war. Tyrants and oppressors have many times made q wilderness and called it peace. Many times peoples who were slothful or tinid CT short-sighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or mis- led by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed .self-sacri- fee, and have sought to hide from their own minds their shortcomings, their lgnobie motives, by calling them love or peace. The peace of tyrannous ter TOT, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be summed as We shun unrighteous 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 safe-guarded in its own rights. but scrupulously recognizes and performs its duty toward others. Generally peace tells for righteousness; but if 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 summed. The right of freedom and the responsibility for the exercise of that right can not be divorced. One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not gift that tarries long in the hands of towards. Neither does 1t 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 often to guard against our own selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.
 If these self-eYident truths are kept before us, and only if they are so kept before us, we shall have clear idea Of what our foreign policy in it's larger as- poets should be. It is our duty to re- member that nation has no more right to do injustice to another nation. strong or weak, than an individual has to do injustice to another individual; that the same moral law applies in one case as in the other 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 interests as it is the duty of the individual SD to do. Within the nation the individual has now delega- ted this right to the state, that is, to the representative of all the individuals, and it is a maxim of the law that for every wrong there is a remedy But in international law we have not ad- vanced by any means as far as we have advanced in municipal law. There is right in international law. When one nation wrongs another or wrongs many others, there is no tribunal before which the wrong-doer can be brought. Either it is necessary supinely to ac- quiesee in the wrong, and thus put a premium upon brutality and aggres- sion, or else it is necessary for the az grieved nation valiantly to stand up for it's rights Until some methQl is devised by which there shall be de- gree of international control over of- lending nations, it would be wicked thing for the most civilized powers, for those with most sense of international obligations and with keenest and most generous appreciation slof the difference between right and wrong, to disarm. If the great civ- ilized nations of the present day should completely disarm. the result would 5os,1 barbarism in one form or another. Un- der any circumstances a sufficient arm ament would have to be kent up to serve the purposes of international po- lice; and until international cohesion and the sense of international duties and rights are far more advanced than at present, a nation desirous both of se- curing respect for itself and of doing good to others must have a force ade- quate for the work which 1t feels is all lotted to 1t as it's part of the general world uty. Therefore it follows that self-respecting, just and far-seeing nation should on the one hand endeay- or by every means to aid in the devel- Eopment of the various movements which tend to provide substitutes for war, which tend to render nations in their actions toward 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 pre- pared, while serupulously avoiding
 (Continued on Twelfth Page)