Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-12-08

degree of international control over offending
nations. 1t would be wicked thing for the
most civilized powers, for those with most
sense OF international obligations and with
keenest and most generous appreciation of
the difference between right and wrong. to
dsarm.
If the great civilized nations of the present
day should completely disarm, the result
would mean an immediate recrudescence Of
barbarism in one form or another. Under
any circumstances a sufficient armament
would have to be kept up to serve the pur-
poses of International police; and until inter-
national cohesion and the sense OF interna-
tional duties and rights are far more ad-
vaced than at present, a nation desirous both
Of securing respect for itself ana or doing
good to others must have force adequate
for the work which 1t feels Is allotted to 1t
as its part of the general world duty. There
fore 1t follows that a self-respecting, just
and seeing nation should on the one hand
endeavor by every means to aid IN the de-
velopment 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
peoples more responsive to the general SEN
timent of humane and civilized mankind !;
and on the other hand that 1t should keep
prepared, while scrupulousy avoiding wrong
doing itself, to repel any wrong, and IN ex-
ceptional cases to take action which in
more advanced stage Of International rela-
tions would come under the head of the
exercise Of the international police. great
free people owes 1t to itself and to all man
kind not to sink into helplessness before the
powers Of evil.
We in every way endeavoring to help
on, with cordial good will. every movement
which will tend to
Arbitration Treaties bring into more
friendly relations with
the rest Of mankind. In pursuance Of this
policy shall shortly lay before the Sen
which are willing to enter into these treaties
with 1t Is not possible at this period
of the worlds development to agree to ar
bitrate all matters. but there are many
matters OF possible difference between us
and other nations which can be thus arb1-
trated Furthermore. at the request OF the
Union. an eminent body
composed of practical
S.cord uo~u. statesmen from all
countries, have
CohIerohco' asked the powers to
Join with this Govern
ment in a second Hague conference, at which
1T 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 first
Hague Conference itself
1t is not true that the United States feels
any land hunger entertains any projects
as regards the other nations Of the Western
save such are for their well
fare. All that this
Policy Toward Other country oeslres Is 10
Nations of Western rhe stasie nrE
hemisphere. derby, and prosperous.
Any country whose
people conduct themselves we'll can count
upon hearty friendship. If a nation
shows that 1t knows how to act with rea
sonabe efficiency and decency in social and
political matters, If 1t keeps order and pays
it's obligations. 1t need fear no interference
from the United States. Chronic wrongdo-
ing, an impotence which results in a gen
eral loosening of the ties OF civilized So
cety, may in America, elsewhere, ulti-
mately require intervention by some civil
zed nation, and in the Western Hemisphere
the adherence 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 an international police power.
If every country washed by the Caribbean
Sea would show the progress in stable and
just civilization 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 con-
stantly and brilliantly showing. all ques
tion of interference by this Nation with
their affairs would be at an end, Our in
terests and those of our Southern neighbors
are in reality Identical They have great
natural riches. and If within their borders
the reign Of law and Justice obtains. pros
perity is sure to come to them. While they
thus obey the primary laws of civilized soci
ETY. they may rest assured that they will be
treated by US in spirit Of cordial and
helpful sympathy. We would interfere with
them only in the last resort and then only
If 1t became evident that their inability or
unwillngness to do justice at home and
abroad had violated the rights Of the United
States had invited foreign aggression to
the detriment of the entire body Of Ameri-
can nations 1t Is mere trusm to say
that every nation. whether in America or
anywhere else. which desires to maintain
ts freedom, it's independence. must ulti-
nately realize that the right of such inde-
pendence cannot be separated from the re-
sponsibility of making good of it,
In asserting the Monroe Doctrine. in TAX
Ing such steps as have taken in regard
to Cuba, Venezuela, and Panama. and in
to circumscribe the theater of
war in the Far East. and to secure the
open door in China. we have acted in our
own interest well in the interest of
humanity at large There are. however,
cases in which. while interests are
not greatly involved, strong appeal Is made
10 our sympathies Ordinarily it Is very
much wiser and more useful for US to con-
Germ ourselves with striving for our own
moral and material betterment here at home
han to concern ourselves with trying to bet
er the condition of things in other nations.
We have plenty of sins of our own to war
against and under ordinary circumstances
We can do more for the general uplifting of
humanity by striving with heart and soul
% put stop to civic corruption, to brutal
awlessness and violent race prejudces here
xrongdoing elsewhere Nevertheless there
ire occasional crimes committed vast
scale and of such peculiar horror as TO
make doubt whether 1t Is not our mani |
est duty to endeavor at least to show our
lisapproval of the deed and sympathy |
With those who have suffered by 1t. The
'ases must be extreme in which such a
curse is justifable. There must be no eff |
ort made to remove the mote from our
,rother's eye If refuse to remove the
,eam from our own. But in extreme cases
lction may be justfable and proper. What !
orm the action shall take must depend upon
he circumstances of the case; that is, upon !
he degree of the atrocity and upon our
,ower to remedy it.
The cases in which could interfere by |
orce of arms as interfered to put stop |
o intolerable conditions in Cuba neces |
arily very few. Yet it is not to be eX-
,ected that a people like ours which, in
pite of certain very obvious shortcomings |
nevertheless as a whole shows by its con-
istent practice It's belief in the principles OF
ivil and religious liberty and of orderly |
reedom. a people among whom even the
worst crime. like the crime of lynching. is
ever more than sporadic, that individu-
Is and not classes molested in their
uch a Nation should desire eagerly to give
Expression to it's horror on an occasion like
hat of the massacre of the Jews in Kishinef,
r when IL witnesses Such systematic and
ong extended cruelty and oppression as the