Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-12-08
PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE,
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against outside foes: although of
course Tor more often to guard against
our own selfish or thoughtess short
comings.
SeIf-Evident Truths.
IF these self-evident truths are kept
before us. and only If the yare so kept
before US, We shall have IA clear idea OF
what our foreign policy in it's larger
aspects should be. 1t IL 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 individuals
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 it's own interests as il is the
duty of the individual SO to do. With
IN the nation the individual has now
delegated this right to the state, that
IL, 10 the representative of all the in
dividuals, and it is a maxim of the law
that Tor every wrong there is a remedy.
Hut in international law we have not
advanced by any means us far as we
have advanced in municipal law. There
is as yet no judicial way of enforcing
~ right in international law. When
many others, there is no tribunal be-
fore which the wrongdoer can be
brought. Either it is necessary
supinely to acquiesce in the wrong.
and thus put premium upon brutality
and aggression, or else it is necessary
to stand up for it's rights. Until some
method is devised by which there
shall be degree of international con-
troll over offending nations, it would be
wicked thing for the most civilized
powers, for those with most sense of
international obligations and with
keenest and most generous apprecia-
ton of the difference between right
and wrong, to disarm If the great
civilized nations OF the present day
should completely disarm. the result
would mean an Immediate recrudes-
cence of barbarsm in one form
another. Under any circumstances a
sufficient armament would have to be
kept up to serve the purposes of in
ternational police: and until inter-
national cohesion and the sense of in
ternational duties and rights are far
more advanced than at present,
nation DESTROYS both of securing re-
spect for itself and of doing good to
Others must have Il 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 self-re-
specting, 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 provide substitutes for war, which
tend to render nations in their actions
toward one another, and indeed to-
ward their own peoples, more respon-
sve to the general sentiment of
humane and civilized mankind and on
the other hand that itshould keep pre-
pared. while scrupulously avoiding
wrongdoing itself. to repel any wrong,
and in exceptional cases to take action
which in more advanced stage of in
ternational relations would come
under the head of the exercise of the
international police. A great free peo-
pie owes it to itself and all mankind
not to sink into helplessness before the
powers of evil
Treaties Of Arbitration.
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 / shall shortly lay before the
Senate treaties of arbitration with all
powers which are wiling to enter into
these treaties with us. 1t is not posi-
BILE at this period of the worlds de-
velOpment to agree toarbtrate all mat
tiers of possible difference between us
and other nations which can be thus
arbitrated Furthermore. at the re-
quest of the Interparlamentary Union,
AN eminent body composed of practi-
cal statesmen from all countries,
have asked the powers to join with this
government in second Hague confer
cnce. at which it is hoped that the
work already so happily begun at The
Hague may be carried some steps
further toward completion. This car
ries out the desire expressed by the
conference itself
1t is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entertainS
projects as regards the other nations
of the Western Hemisphere save such
las are for their welfare. All that this
country desires is to see the neighbOr-
ing countries stable. orderly and pros
porous. Any country whose people
conduct themselves well can count
upon our heartily friendship. If
nation shows that ii knows how to act
with reasonable efficiency and decency
N social and political matters. If it
keeps order and pays it's obligations.
ii need fear no interference from the
United States. Chronic wrongdong,
ar an impotence which results in a
general loosening of the ties of cilil-
lied society(, may in America. as else
where ultimately require intervention
by some civilized nation. and in the
Western Hemisphere the adherence of
the United States to the Monroe doc.
Urine may force the t'netd States.
however reluctantly. in fragrant cases
of such wrongdong or impotence, to
the exercise of an international police
power. If every country washed by
the Caribbean Sea would show the
progress in stable and Just civiliza-
tiOD which with the aid of the Platt
amendment cuba has shown since our
troops left the island. and which so
many of the republics in both Americas
are constantly and brilliantly showing
all question of interference by this
nation with their affairs would be at AN
end. Our interests and those of our
southern neighbors are in reality iden-
teal. They have great natural riches,
and if within their borders the reign
Cf law and justice obtains, prosperity
liz sure to come to them. While they
thus obey the primary laws of civil
lied society they may rest assured that
they will be treated by us in Il spirit
of cordial and helpful sympathy We
would interfere with them only in the
last resort and then only if it became
Willingness to do justice at home and
abroad had violated the rights of the
United States or had invited foreign
aggression to the detriment of the en-