The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-12-08

toward our army, and especially toward
our navy. 1t IL not merely unwise, 1t Is
contemplate. for nation. as for an in
dividual. to use hgh-soundlng language
to proclaim Its purposes. or to take posi-
tions which are ridiculous II unsupported
by potential force. and then to refuse to
provide this force. II there Is no inten-
tion Of providing and OF keeping the
force necessary to back up strong at
titude. then It Is far better not to assume
such an attitude.
Striving for World Peace.
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 wilderness and
called it peace. Many times peoples who
were slothful or timid or shortsighted.
who had been enervated by ease or by
luxury, or misled by false teachings,
have shrunk in unmanly fashion from
doing duty that was stern and that need
ed self-sacrifce. and have sought to hide
from their own minds their shortcom-
ings. their ignoble motives. by calling
nous terror, the peace Of craven weak
ness, the peace Of injustice. all these
should be Stunned as we shun unright-
eous war. The goal to set before US a. q
nation, the goal which should be set be-
fore all mankind. IL the attainment OF
the peace OF justice, Of the peace which
comes when each nation II not merely
safe-guarded In Its own rights, but
scrupulously recognizes and performs its
duty toward others. Generally peace tells
for righteousness: but II there 10 conflict
| between the two, then our fealty Is due
first to the cause Of Righteousness. Un-
| righteous wars are common, and un-
| righteous peace II rare; but both should
be Stunned. The right Of freedom and
the responsibility for the exercise of that
right cannot be divorced. One Of ouI
great poets has well and finely said that
freedom IL not gift that tarries lonG
In the hands OF towards. Neither does
IL tarry long in the hands of those toe
slothful. too dishonest or too unintelli.
| gent to exercise 1t. The eternal vigilance
which Is the price Of liberty must be ex'
ercised, sometimes to guard against out
side foes; although Of course far more
often to guard against our own selfish
| or thoughtless shortcomings.
Not Ready for Disarmament. :.
II these self-evident truths are kept be
fore us, and only II they are 80 kept before
us. we shall have clear idea Of what or,
foreign policy In Its larger aspects shoult
be. II IL our duty to remember that ma
tion has no more right to do injustice t
another nation, strong or weak, than al
Individual has to do injustice to anothe
Individual; that the same moral law appiieI
In one case az in the other. But we mus
also remember that 1t is as much the dut!
of the nation to guard Its own rights an,
its own interests as II Ia the duty Of tn
Individual SO to do. Within the nation tn
Individual has now delegated this righ
to the state. that IL. to the representativ
of all the individuals. and-it is q maxin
of the law that for every wrong there II
remedy. But In international law we hav
not advanced by any means as far as W
have advanced In municipal law. Their
il as yet no judicial way of enforcing righ
In International law. When one natio
wrongs another or WRONGS many Others
there Is no tribunal before which the wrong
doer can be brought Either II Is necessar
supinely to acQuiesce In the wrong, an
thus put premium upon brutality an
aggression, or else II Is necessary for tn
aggrevsd nation valiantly to stand up "a
its rights. Until some method is devise
by which there shall be degree Of intel
national control over offending nationl
1t would be q wicked thing for the mos
civilized powers. for those with most SEM
! of international obligations and with keeT
est and most generous appreciation of III
. difference between right and wrong, to dii
! arm. II the great civilized nations Of tn
present DAY should completely disarm, IN
result would mean an immediate recrl
I, descence Of barbarism In one form or al
other. Under any circumstances 4 sun
, Client armament would have to be kept u
! to serve the purposes Of International pt
: lice; and until international cohesion an
the sense Of International duties and right
are far more advanced than at present,
nation desirous both OF securing rssps,
tor itself and OF doing good to others mui
have force adequate for the work whic
Il feels 10 allotted to II a. its part OF u
: GENERAL world duty. Thsrefors Il follow
that sslf-respsctins. Just and far-sssis
Z nation should on the one hand endeev
4 ~ every means 70 cid u The Sevslopme
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