Arizona republican., 1904-12-07

ana, and isa enGe&voriDs to circum- seribs the tAe2sar 0f war in the far east and to secure 3ae open Aoor in China, ae have 3use6 ise 0ur oun interest as well ss in ;Ae interest of Humanity at large. There ssFe. however, cases in which, while our oyvn interests are not greatly involved, strOnE appeal is made 10 our symDath4es Ordinarily it is very much wiser and more useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material better mcnt there at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the con- dition of things in other nations. We have plenty of sins Of our own to war against. and under ordinary circum- stances We can do more for the gen. eraI uplifting of humanity by striving with heart and soul 10 put stop to civic corruption, ito brutal laWlessness and violent trace pIejudices here at home than by passing resolutions about wrougdoing elsewhere. Nevertheless there are occasional crimes committed on so vast a scale and Of such pecu- uiar horror as to make us dou5e svhether 1t is not our manifest duty to endeavor at least to show our disap- proval of the deed and ouT sympathy with those who have suffered by it. The cases must be extreme in which such a course Is justifiable. There must be no effort made to remove the mote from our brothers eye if we re- fuse to remove the beam from our own. But in extreme cases action may be Justifable and proper. What form the action shall take must depend upon the circumstances of the case; 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 mtoIerable conditions in Cuba are necessarily very few. Yet it is not to be expected that a people like ours, which in spite of certain very obvious shortcomings, nevertheless as a whole shows by it's consistent practice it's be- lief in the principles of civil and relig- iouS liberty and or orderly freedom, a people among whom even the worst crime, like that of lynchinE, is never more than sporadic, so that individuals and not classes are rnoIested in their fundamental rights-it Is inevitable that such a nation should desire eagerly to give expression to its horror on an occasion like that Of. the massacre of the Jews of kishenef or when it wit nesses such systematic and lOng-ex- AG4lHCO N4uGIlS dIltl oppression QS EnG cruelty and oppression of which the Armenians have been the victims, and which have won for them the indignant pity of the civilized world.
 RIGHTS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS
 ABROAD.
 Even where it is not possible to se- cure in other nations the observance Of the principles which We accept as aXiomatix, it is necessary for Us firmly to insist upon the rights of our own citizens without regard to their creed or race; without regard to whether they were born here or born abroad. It has proved very difficult to secure from Russia the right for our Jewish fellow citizens to receive passports and travel through Russian territory. Sucn conduct is not only unjust and irui- tating toward us. but it is difficult to see it's wisdom from Russias stand point. No concievaole good is accom- plis9ed by it. If an American Jew or an American Christian misbehaves himself ia Russia he can at once be driven out; but the ordinary American Jew, like the ordinary American Chris l tian, would behave just about as he behaves here, that is, behave as any good citizen ought to behave; and where this is the case it is a wrong