Arizona republican., 1904-12-07

remember that nation has no more right to Go 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 its own interests as it is the duty of the individual to do so. Within the nation the individual has now delegated this right to the state, that is, to the representative of all individuals, and it is a maxim of the law that for every wrong there is a remedy. But in in ternational Law we have not advanced by any means as far as we have ad- vanced 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 no tribunal before which the Wrongdoer can be brought. Either it is necessary supinely to ac-
 Iuiesce in the wrong, and thus put a premium upon Brutality and aggres- sion. or elsee il is necessary for the agglieved nation to stand up for it's rights. Until soTe method is devised by which there shall be a degree of international control over offending na- tons, tt would be a wicked thing for the most civilized powers for those with most sense of International obli- gations and with the keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference between right and wrong, to disarn. If the great civilized nations of the pres ent day should completely disarnl. the result would mean an immediate re- crUdescence of osrbarism in one form or another. Under any circumstances q sufficient armament would have to be kept up to serve the purposes Of in- ternational police; and until interna- uonal cohesion and the sense of in- terTsatioIal duties both Of securing res pect for itself and of dong good to others must nave a force adequate for the work which it feels is allotted to it as it's part Of the general world duty. Therefore it follows that a self-res3ect- 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 10 render nations il the:r 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 s7rupulously avoiding wong doing itself, to repel aRy wrong, end in exceptional cases to take action which in a more advanced stage oc interna- tiOnal relations would come under the head Of the exercise of the international police A great free people owes it to itself and to mankind not to sink into helplessness before the powers of evil.
 ARBITRATION TREATIES.
 We are in every way endeavoring 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 I shall shortly lay before Ghe senete treaties Of arbitration with all powers wrich are willing to enter into these treaties With US. It is not possible at this period of the worlds development to agree to arbitrate all matters, but there a-7 many matters ce possible difference between US and