The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-12-10

of the various movements
provide substitutes for war, wnich tenotS
render nations in their actions toward ohs
another. and indeed toward their own peg
pies. more responsive to the general SENT
ment Of humane and civilized manhihuF
and on the other hand, that 1t should keep
prepared. while scrupulously aVoiains
%wrongdoing itself, to repel any wrong, anu
in exceptional cases to take action wnlcn
In a more advanced stage OF nternatlonas
relations would come under the head OF lno
exercise of the international ponce.
great free people owes 1t to itself and toall
mankind not to sink into heIpiessnesS pe
fore the powers Of evil.
Second Hague Conference.
we are in every way en%deavoring TO help
on. with cordial good will, every movement
which will tend to bring us into more 1rlenu-
ly relations with the rest or manKlno- liz
pursuance of this policy / shall shorty Jay
before the senate treaties OF arbitration
with all powers which are willing to enter
into these treaties with us. 1t Is not pos
sible at this period Of the worlds Develop
ment to agree to arbitrate all matters, Dus
there are many matters of possible diner
ence between US and other nations WHICH,
can be thus arbitrated. Furthermore, at
the request Of the Interparliamentary
union, an eminent body composed or prac-
teal statesmen from all countries, L nave
asked the powers to join with this govern
ment in a second Hague conference, at
which IL is nOpcQ ina the
happily begun at The Hague may be car
ried some steps further toward completion.
This carries out the desire expressed oT
the first Hague conference itself.
The Monroe Doctrine.
In asserting the Monroe Doctrine, In taxi
ing such steps as we have taken in regard to
Cuba, Venezuela and Panama. and IN en-
deavoring to circumscribe the theater OK
war in the far east, and to secure the open
dOor IN China we have acted in our OWN
interest as well as in the interest or human
ity at large. There are, however, cases in
which, while our own interests are not
greatly involved, strong appeal is made to
our sympathies. Ordinarily it is very much
wiser and more useful for US to concern
ourselves with striving for our own moral
and material betterment here 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 circumstances
we can do more for the general uplifting or
humanity by striving with heart and seut
to put q stop to civic corruption, to brutal
law~lessness and violent race prejudiceS
here at home than by passing resolutions
about ~wrongdoing elsewhere. NeVertne-
less there are occasional crimes committed
on so vast a scale and of such peculiar hor-
ror as to make us doubt whether 1t Is not
our manifest duty to endeaVor at least 10
show our djsapproval of the deed ana our
sympathy with those who have suffered by
IL. The cases must be extreme in Whtch
such a course is justifiabie. There must be-
no effort made to remove the mote from
our brothers eye if we refuse to remove
the beam from our own. But in extreme
cases action may be justif1able and properi
What form the action shall take must de-
pend upon the circumstances of the case5
that is, upon the degree of the atrocity and
upon our power to remedy it. The cases
in which we could interfere by force OF
arms as we interfered to put a stop TO I'M
tolerable conditions in Cuba are neceS-
sarily very few. Yet it is not to be expected
that a people like ours, which in spite or
certain very obvious shortcomings, never-
theless as a whole shows by its consistent
practice it's belief in the principles of civil
and religious liberty and of orderly free
dom, & people among whom even the Worsc>
crime, like the crime Of lynching, is never
more than sporadic, so that individuals and
not classes are molested in their funda-
mental rights-it is inevitable that such a.
nation should desire eagerly to give express
sion to it's horror on an occasion ike thaC
of the massacre of the Jews in Kishinef, or
when it witnesses such systematic and
long-extended cruelty and oppression as
the cruelty and oppression Of which the
Armenians have been the victims, and
which have won for them the indignant
pity of the civilized world. |
The Philippines. 1
In the Philippine islands there has been
during the past year a continuation or
the steady progress which mas obtained,
l ever since our troops definitely got the
upper hand of the insurgents. The Phil
: ippine people. or, to speak more accur-
ately, the many tribes, and even races,I
; sundered from one another. more or less
sharply. who go to make up the people
of the Philippine islands, contain many
? elements of good, and some elements
which we have a right to hope stand for
l progress. AT present they are utterly
. incapable of existing in independence at
l all or of building up a civilization OF
4 their own. l firmly believe that we can
helm them to rise higher and higher in
I the scale of civilization and of capacity
5 for self-government, and l most earnest
$ " hope that in the end they will be able
I to stand, If not entirely alone, yet In
e some such relation to the United States
: as Cuba now stands. This end is not yet
: in sight. and it may be indefinitely post
q poned if our people are foolish enough 10
q turn the attention of the Fflipinos away
from the problems of achieving moral
T and material prosperity. of working for
a stable, orderly and just government.
g and toward foolish and dangerous in
IS trigues for a complete independence for
which they are as yet totally unfit.
l. On the other hand our people must
keep steadily before their minds the fact
( that the justification for our stay in the
philippines must ultimately rest chiefly
'e upon the good we are able to DO in the
h islands. l do not overlook the fact that
in the development of our interests In
the Pacific ocean and along it's coasts,
a.. the Philippines have played and will play
an important part, and that our interests
~ have been served in more than one way
"A by the possession of the islands. But our
=, chief reason for continuing to hold them
- must be that we ought in good faith
~ to try to do our share of the worlds
- work. and this particular piece of work
- has been imposed upon us by the results
:. of the war with Spain.
For Elective Government.
Id Within two years we shall be trying
ne the experiment of an elective lower
ne house in the Philippine legislature. i
ht may be that the Filipinos will misuse
We this legislature, and they certainly viii
m misuse 1t If they are misled by foolish
a persons here at home into starting ar
We / agitation for their own independence Of
We into any ~factious or improper action. IL
re such case they will do themselves M
hit good and will stop for the time being al
IN further effort to advance them and Civ
8. them a greater share in their own gov
ernment But If they act with wisdom
ry and self-restraint. If they show that the.
i'd are capable of electing a legislator
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