Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-13

ITCHY as Is consistent with safety. Ere--v
silver dollar should be made by Law redeem
able in gold at the option OF the holder.
Oriental Markets.
The Importance of securing proper In
formation and data with view TO the en-
largement of our trade with Asia is undi-
mlnished. Our consular representatives In
China have strongly urged a place for per-
manent display OF American products in
some prominent. trade center If that EN-
plre, under government control and man
agement, as an effective means Of adyane-
ing our export trade therein. I call the
attention Of the Congress to the desira-
bility OF carrying out these suggestions.
Immigration and Naturalization.
In dealing with the questions OF inmi-
grafton and naturalization Ii Is indispensa-
BILE to keep certain facts ever before the
minds of those who share in enacting the
laws. First and foremost let US renen-
Der that the question of being a good Amer
lean has nothing whatever to do with a
mans birthplace any more than 1t has TO
do with his creed. In every generation
from the time this gov eminent was found
ed men or foreign birth have stood in the
very foremost rank Of good citizenship,
and that not merely in one but In every
field Of American activity There is no
Danger or having too many immigrants OF
the right kind. But the citizenship of this
country should not be debased. 1t is vital
that we should keep high the standard of
weli-being among our wage-workers, and
therefore we should not admit masses of
men whose standards of living and whose
personal customs and habits are such that
they tend to lower the level of the Ameri-
can wage-worker; ard above all we should
not admit any man of an unworthy tyne
any man concerning whom we can say that
ne VIII himself be bad citizen, or that
bis children and grandchildren will detract
from instead of adding TO the sum Of the
good citizenship Of the country. Similar
ly we should take the greatest care about
naturalization. Fraudulent naturalization
the naturalization of improper persons. Is
curse TO our government; and it Is the
affair of every honest voter, wherever born
TO see that no fraudulent voting Is allow
ed, that no fraud in connection with nat
urahzation Is permitted. Not only are the
laws relating to naturalization now defec-
tive, but those relating to citizenship of
the subject Of scientific inquiry with 4 view
to probable further legislation.
The Territory of Alaska.
Alaska, like all our Territorial acouisi-
lions, has proved resoareeful beyond the
expectations of those who made the pur-
hardy, industrious, and thrifty American
citizens. Towns Of a permanent character
have been built The extent of its wealth
In minerals, timber, fisheries and agrlcul-
hended yet In any just measure by our
people. We do know, however that from
a very small beginning It's products have
grown until they are steady and material
IA.
Owing to the immensely of Alaska and its
location In the far north, 1t is a difficult
matter to provide many things essential to
its growth and to the happiness and COM
fort Of Its people by private enterprise
alone. 1t should, therefore receive rea-
sonable aid from the government The
government has already done excellent
work for Alaska In laying cables and build
ing telegraph lines. The Alaskan natives
should be given the right to acquire hold.
and dispose Of property upon the same
the privilege of citizenship should be given
to such as may be able to meet certain
definite requirements.
Our Foreign Policy.
In treating of our foreign policy and of
the atttude that this great Nation should
assume In the world at large, 1t is absolute
~ necessary to consider the Army and the
Navy, and the Congress-. through which the
thought of the Nation finds its expression,
should keep ever wildly in mind the funda-
mental fact that 1t is impossible to treat
our foreign policy, whether this policy takes
shape in the effort to secure justice for
others or justice for ourselves save as con-
dltioned upon the attitude we are willing
toward our Navy. 1t is not merely unwise,
1t is contemplate, for a nation, as for an
individual, to use high-sounding language to
proclaim Its purposes, or to take positions
which are ridiculous If unsupported by po-
tential force, and then to refuse to provide
this force. If there is no intention of pro-
viding and of keeping the force necessary
to back up strong attitude, 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 wal. Tyrants
and oppressors have many times made a
wilderness and called 1t peace. Many times
peoples who were sOthful or timid or short
sighted, who had been enervated by ease
or by luxury, or misled by false teachings,
have shrunk in unmanly fashion from do
Ing duty that was stern and that needed
self-Sacrihce, and have sought to hide from
their own minds their shortcomings, their
ignoble motives, by calling them love of
peace. The peace of tyrannous terror, the
peace of craven weakness, the peace Of In
justice all these should be stunned as we
shun unrighteous war. The goal to set be-
fore us as a nation, the goal which should
be set before all mankind is the attain
ment of the peace of justice, Of the peace
which comes when each nation Is not mere
ly safeguarded in its own rights but serup-
ulously recognizes and performs Its duty
toward others. Generally peace tells for
righteousness; but If there is conflict be-
tween 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 Stunned. 1t Is our
duty to remember 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 its own rights and its own inter
ests as 1t is the duty of the individual so
TO do. Within the Nation the individual
has now delegated this right to the State,
that Is, to the representative of all the In
dividuals, and 1t Is maxim Of the law
that for every wrong there is a remedy.
But In international law we have not adj
vanced by any means as far as we have
advanced In municipal law. There Is as
yet no judicial way of enforcing a right
In international law. When one nation
wrongs another or wrongs many others,
there is tribunal before which the wrong
doer can be brought Either 1t is neces-
sary supinely to acquiesce In the wrong,
and thus put premium upon brutality
and aggression. or else 1t is necessary for
the aggrieyed nation valiantly to stand up
for its rights. Until some method is de-
Yised by which there shall be degree Of
International control 'over offending nations.
1t would be a wicked thing for the most
civilized powers, for those with most sense
Of International obligations and with keen
est and most generous appreciation of the
difference between right and wrong, to dis
ARA. If the great civilized nations of the
present day should completely disarm, the
result would mean an Immediately recrud-
escence of harbarism In one form or an
other. Under any circumstances a sufficient
armament would have TO be kept up TO
serve the purposes OF international police,
and until international cohesion aud the
sense Of international duties and rights are
far more advanced than at present, a ma
tion DESTROYS both of securing respect for
itself and of doing good to others must
have force adequate for the work which
IL feels Is allotted to II as its part of the
general world duty. A great free people
owes 1t to itself and TO all mankind not TO
sink into helplessness before the powers of
evil.
Second Hague Conference.
We are in every way endeavoring to help
on with cordial good will, every movement
which viii tend to bring into more
friendly relations with the rest Of man
kind In pursuance OF this policy l shall
shortly lay before the Senate treaties OF
arbitration with all powers which are Will
ing TO enter into these treaties with US,
Furthermore. at the request OF the Inter
parliamentary Union. an eminent body com
posed OF practical statesmen from all coun-
tries have asked the Powers TO join with
this government In second Hague con-
ference. at which Ii Is hoped that the work
already so happily begun at The Hague may
be carried some steps further toward com
pletton.
ISof.-w Toward Other Nations of West