The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-07

here at home than by passing resolu-
tons about wrongdoing elsewhere.
Nevertheless there are occasional
crimes committed on so vast a scale
and of such peculiar horror as to
make us doubt whether it is not our
manifest duty to endeavor at least to
show our disapproVal of the deed and
our sympathy with those who have
suffered by it. The cases must be ex-
IRENE in which such a course is justi-
fable There must be no effort made
to remove the mote from our broth
er's eye if We refuse to remove the
beam from our own. But ia extreme
cases action may be justifiable and
proper. What form the action shall
take must depend upon the circum-
stances 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 intolerable conditions in
Cuba are necessarily very few. Yet 1t
is not to be expected that people
like ours which in spite OF certain
very obvious shortcomings, n2Jelfne-
less as whole shows ny its consist
ent practice it's belief in the principles
of civil and religious liberty and OF
orderly freedom, a people among
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 expression to its horror on an
occasion like that of the massacre OF
the Jews in Kishineff or when ii Wit
nesses such systematic and long-eX-
tended cruelty and oppression rs the
Of
A rmenians have been the victims. and
which have won for them the indis-
nant pity of the civilized world.
Rights; of American Citizens Abroad.
Even where it is not possible to Sc
cure in other nations the observance
of the principles which we accent as
automatic. il 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 aboad. IL
has proved very difficult to secure from
Russia the right for our Jewish lei
low citizens to receive passports ana
travel through Russian territory.
Such conduct is not only unjust and
irritating toward us, but Il is difficult
to see its wisdom from Russia's stand
point. No conceivable good is accomp-
iished by it. If an American Jew or
an American Christian misbehaves
himself in Russia he can at once be
driven out: but the ordinary American
jew like the ordinary American
Christian 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
against which we are entitled to pro-
test TO refuse him his passport with
out regard to his conduct and charac-
ter, merely on racial and religious
In Turkey our difficulties
arise less from the way in which our
citizens are sometimes treated thair
from the indignation inevitably excited
in seeing such fearful misrule as has
been witnessed both in Armenia and
Macedonia.
The Navy.
The strong arm of the government
in enforcing respect for it's just rights
in international matters is the navy of
the United States. | most earnestly
recommend that there be no halt IN
the work of upbuilding the American
NAVY There is no more patriotic duty