The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-12-09

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The needs of these people are,
The abolition of the present fee sys-
tenn, whereby the native Is degraded,
imposed upon, and taught the injustice
of law.
The establishment of hospitals at CEN
tral points, so that contagious diseases
that are brought to them continually
by incoming whites may be localized
and not allowed to become epidemic, to
spread death and destitution over great
areas.
The development of the educational
ing in such industries as viii assure
the Indians self-support under the chang
ed conditions in which they will have
to live. .,...
The duties of the office of governor
should be extended to include the super
vision of Indian affairs, with neces-
sary assistants in different districts. He
the power to protect and advise the ma
tive people, to furnish medical treatment
In time of epidemics, and to extend ma
terial relief In periods of famine and
extreme deStitution.- r..E
HAWAII AND PORTO RICO.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right to acquire, hold, and dispose
of property upon the same conditions
privilege of citizenship should be given
to such as may be able to meet certain
definite requirements. In Hawaii con-
to remove all the officials appointed
under him. The harbor of Honolulu
should be dredged. The marine hospit-
al service should be empowered to stud
leprosy in the islands. ask. special
consideration for the report and recon-
mendations of the governor of Porto
Rico.
FOREIGN POLICY
In treating of our foreign policy and
of the attitude that this great nation
should assume in the world at large, 1t
Is absolutely necessary 70 consider the
through which the thought of the ma
ton nnds its expression, should keep
ever vividly In mind the fundamental
fact; that IT. Is impossible to treat our
Foreign policy, whether this policy takes
shape In the effort to secure justice for
others or justice 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 unwise, II Is contemplate, for a
nation, as for an individual, TO use high
sounding language to proclaim it's pur-
ridiculous If unsupported by potential
force, and then to refuse to provide this
force. If there is no intention of pro-
viding and of keeping the force neces-
sary to back up a strong attitude, then
II Is far better not to assume such an
attitude.
The steady aim of this nation, as of
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 undesir-
able, which are in the long run as de-
structlve as any war. Tyrants and OPP
pressors have many times made a will
derness and called 1t peace. Many times
peoples who were slothful or timid or
by ease or by luxury, or misled by
false teachings, have shrunk in unman-
ly fashion from doing duty that was
stern and that needed their self-sacri-
flee. and have gOlEht hide from
their own minds their shortcomings
their ignoble motives, by calling them
love of peace. The peace of tyrannous
the peace of injustice, all these should
be Stunned as we shun unrighteous
war. The goal to set before us as a
before all mankind is the attainment
of the peace of justice, of the peace
which comes when each nation Is not
merely safe-guarded in its own rights,
forms its duty toward others. Gener-
ally peace tells for righteousness; but
Il there Is conflict between the two,
then our fealtg is due first to the
wars are common and unrighteous peace
Z s. pareI but both should be Stunned
The right of freedom and the respon-
sibility for the exercise of that right
cannot be divorced. One of our great
noets has well and finely said that
freedom is not a gift that tarries long
in the hands of towards. Neither does
1t tarry long i'm the hands of those too
slothful, too dishonest, or too unintel.
igent to exercise II, The eternal vigi-
lance which is the price of liberty must
be exercised, sometimes to guard against
outside foes; although of course far
more often to guard against our own
selfish or thoughtless shortcomings.
If these self-evident truths are kept
before us, we shall have a clear idea
of what our foreign policy I'm its larger
aspects should be. II is our duty to
remember that q nation has no more
right to do 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 1t is as much the duty
of the nation to guard its own rights
and its own interests as II Is the duty
of the individual so to do. Within the
nation the individual has now dclcgut-
ed this right to the state, that is. to
the representative of all the individuals,
and 1t is maxim of law that for every
national law we have not advanced by
any means as far as we have advanced
in municipal law. There is as yet no
judicial way of enforcing a right in in
ternational law. When one nation
wrongs another or wrongs many others,
there is no tribunal before which the
wrongdoer can he brought Either II Is
necessary supinely to acquiesce in the
brutality and aggression. or else 1t is
necessary for the aggrieved nation val
iantly to stand up for its rights I'm
some method is devised by which there
shall be degree of international con-
troll over offending nations, ii would be
a wicked thing for the most civilized
for those with most sense OF
obligations and with keen
est and most generous appreciation of
the difference between right and wrong,
to disarm. If the great civilized ma
tions of the present day should com
pletely disarm, the result would mean
an immediate recrudeesence of barbar-
ism in one form or another. Under any
a sufficient armament
would have to be kept up to serve the
of international police; and un-
til International cohesion and the sense
of international duties and rights are
far more advanced than at present, a
nation, desirous both of securing re-
spect for itself and of doing good to
others must have a force adequate for
the work which 1t feels is allotted to
II as its part of the general world duty.
1t follows that self-re-
specting, just, and far-seeing nation
should on the one hand endeavor by ev-
cry 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 toward
their own people, more RESPONSIVE to the