Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-17

effort to secure justice for others or Jus
tice for ourselves, save as conditioned
upon the attitude we are willing to take
toward our army, and especially toward
our navy 1t is not merely -unwfse, it Is
contemplate. for a nation. as for an in
dfviduaL to use high sounding language
to proclaim its purposes, to take po-
sitions which are ridiculous il unsupport-
ed by potential force. and then to refuse
to provide this force. If there is in
tention of providing and of keeping the
force necessary to back up strong atti-
tude, then it is far better not to assume
such an attitude.
The steady aim of this nation as of all
enlightened nations. should be to strive
to bring ever nearer the day when there
shall prevail throughout the world the
peace of Justice There are kinds of
peace which are highly undesirable.
which are in the long run as destructive
as any war Tyrants and oppressors have
many times made wilderness and called
it peace The peace of tyrannous terror,
the peace of craven weakness. the peace
of injustice, all these should be Stunned
as we shun unrighteous The goal
to set before us as a nation. the goal
which should be set before all mankind.
is the attainment of the peace of JUS
tice. of the peace which comes when
each nation is not merely safe-guarded
in its own rights. but scrupulously
ognizes and performs its duty toward
others.
There is as yet no judicial way of en-
forcing a right in international law.
When one nation wrongs another
wrongs many others, there is no tribu-
nal before which the wrongdoer can be
brought Either it is necessary supinely
to acquiesce in the wrong. and thus put
a premium upon brutality and agrees
sion, or else it is necessary for the ag-
grieved nation valiantly to stand up for
its rights. Until some method is devised
by which there shall be a degree of in
ternational control over offending
he xr-fa lra6 for
the most civilized powers, for those with
most sense of international obligations
and with keenest and most generous APP
precia ton of the difference between right
and wrong, to disarm. If the great civ
ilized nations of the present day should
completely disarm. the result would mean
an immediate recrudescence of barbar-
ism in one form another.
Arbitration Treaties.
We are in every way endeavoring to
help on, with cordial good will. every
movement which will tend to bring
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 willing to enter into these
treaties with Furthermore, at the
request of the Interparlfa mentary Union,
an eminent body composed of practical
statesmen from all countries. I have
asked the Powers to join with this gov
eminent in a second Hague conference.
at which it is hoped that the work al
ready so happily begun at The Hague
may be carried some steps further to-
ward completion This carries out the
desire expressed by the first Hague con-
ference Itself.
Policy on Western Hemisphere.
1t is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entertains any
projects as regards the other nations of
the western hemisphere save such as are
for their welfare. All that this coun-
try desires is to see the neighboring
countries stable, orderly. and prosperous.
Any country whose people conduct them
selves well can count upon hearty
friendship If a nation shows that it
knows how to act with reasonable eff
cheney and decency in social and political
matters, if it keeps order and pays its
obliga tons, it need fear no interference
from the United States Chronic wrong
doing. or an impotence which results in
general 1oosening of the ties of civil
lied society, may in America, as else
where, ultimately require Intervention by
some civilized nation, and in the western
hemisphere the adherents of the United
States to the Monroe doctrine may force
the United States, however reluctantly,
in fragrant cases of such wrongdoing or
impotence, to the exercise of inter-
MAJ iOnal police power.
Our interests and those of south
neighbOrS are in reality identical.
They have great natural riches, and if
within their borders the reign of law and
justice obtains. prosperity is sure to come
to them. While they thus obey the pri-
rest assured that they will be treated by
us in a spirit of cordial and helpful sym
pathy. We would interfere with them
only in the last resort. and then only
if it became evident that their inabniCy
unwillingness to do justice at home
and abroad had violated the rights of
the United States had invited foreign
aggression to the detriment of the en-
tire body of American nations.
In asserting the Monroe doctrine, In
taking such steps we have taken in
regard to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama,
and in endeavoring to circumScribe the
theater of war in the far East, and to
acted in own interest well as in
the interest of humanity at large There
are, however, cases in which, while our
own interests not greatly involved,
strong appeal is made to our SympathieS.
There are occasional crimes committed
horror to make us doubt whether it Is
not our manifest duty to endeavOr at
least to show 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 juStf-
fable. 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
intoIerable conditions in Cuba are neces-
sarily very few. Yet it is not to be ex-
pected that a people like ours, which in
spite of certain very obvious shortcom-
ings, nevertheless a whole shows by
its consistent practice its belief in the
principles of civil and religious liberty
and of orderly freedom. people among