The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-12-06

for the general uplifting of humanity
bv striving with heart and soul TO put
y sion to civic corruption, TO pfulai
Iawlessnass and violent race preJudlces
here at home than by passing resoiu-
tions about wrongdoing elsewhere.
Nevertheless there are occasloIai
crimes committed on so vast scare
and of such peculiar horror as 10 MAKE
ne Doubt whether it is not our manlfest
,Iuty TO endeavOr at least to snow our
disapproval of the deed and our SYM
patty with those who nave suiiereo
Inv if The cases must be extreme In
which such course is 1uStllapiS.
There must be no effort made 10 re-
move the mote from our brother eye
if we refuse to remove the beam from
orr own But in extreme cases action
may be justificable and proper. What
form the action shall take must depend
upon the circumstances OF the case
that is. upon the degree of the atro-
civ and upon our power to remedy IL.
The cases in which we would interfere
nv force of arms as we interfered to
put a stop to intolerable conditions IN
CUBA are necessarily SSiy AS"' 49, -
is not to be expected that people
like ours which in spite of certain
yerv obvious shortcomings, neVerthe-
less as a whole shows by its consistent
practice it's belief in the principles OF
civil and religious liberty, and of or
derby freedom people among Wno1n
even the worst crime, like the crime OF
lynching, is never more inan sporadic,
so that individuals and not classes are
,nolested in their fundamental rights
If is inevitable that such a nation
should desire eagerly to give express
sion TO it's horror on an occasion like
that of the massacre of the Jews IN
Kishenef. or when it witnesses such
systematic and long extended cruelty
and oppression as the cruelty and OPP
preston of which the Armenians have
been the victims, and which have won
for them the indignant pity of the civ
ilized world.
Riahts of American Citizens Abroad.
Even where it is not possible to Sc
cure in other nations the observance of
the principles which we accept as
automatic, it 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 abroad.
1t has proved very difficult to secure
from Russia the right for our Jewish
fellow citizens to receive passports and
travel through Russian territory. Such
conduct is not only unjust and irritat-
ing toward US, but it is difficult to
see it's wisdom from Russia's stand
point. No conceivable good is accom-
plished 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
grounds. In Turkey our difficulties
arise less from the way in which our
citizens are sometimes treated than
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. 1 most earnestly
fl,a@ I I,o1 II I,
work of upbuilding the American ma
Wy. There is no more patriotic duty be-
fore us as a people than to keep the
navy adequate to the needs of this
country's position. We have under
taken to build the Isthmian canal We
have undertaken to secure for our
selves our just share in the trade of
the Orient We have undertaken to
protect our citizens from improper
treatment in foreign lands. We con-
tinue steadily to insist on the applica-
western hemisphere. Unless our atti-
tude in these and all similar matters
is to be mere boastful sham we can
not afford to abandon our naval pro-
gramme. Our voice is now potent for
peace, and is so potent because we are
not afraid of war. But our protesta-
tions upon behalf of peace would
neither receive nor deserve the slight
est attention if We were impotent to
make them good.
The Army.
Within the last three years the
United States has set an example in
disarmament where disarmament was
proper. By law our army is fixed at a
maximum of one hundred thousand
ana minimum of sixty thousand men.
When there was instruction in the
philippines We kept the army at the
maximum. Peace came in the Philip
pines, and now our army has been re-
uuced to the minimum at which it is
possible to keep it with due regard to
Its efficiency. The guns now mounted
require twentyeight thousand men.
II the coast Notifications are TO b.
adequately manned. Relatively to the
nation it is not now so large as the
police force of New York or Chicago
relatively to the population of either
city We need more officers: there
are not enough to perform the regular
army work 1t is very iOportan+ tho =