The Washington times., 1904-09-23
In AWesome Earnest.

Early in the campaign the New
York World" took upon itself full
responsibility for the whole bust
ness. 1t set out to elect Judge Par
ker, and issued orders, divers and
sundry, all of which, as it sets
forth with becoming and modest
pride. were readily obeyed by the
candidate. Thus the triumph Of
Judge Parker would be a victory for
the World" but, alasl his defeat
would have to be accepted as
slam to that esteemed organ. There
is no rose without it's thorn, and an
editorial thumb is not immune to
pricking.
In recent issue the paper in ques-
ton endeavored to set forth that
President Roosevelt had used "offen-
sive terms" with which sixteen SOW
erign States were "coarsely threat
ened;" had outraged international
comfy by an Outrageous piece Of
hectoring," etc 1t did all this by
quoting from an address prepared
by the President for delivery at a
banquet, containing not a word with
which the sentiment or the majority
of people in this country is not in
full accord.
In this address the President said
with reference to the smaller powers
Of the continent: IF a nation shows
how to act with decency in indus
trial and political matters, if it keeps
order and pays its obligations, then
it need fear no interference from
the United States"
Nothing exactly terrible in this,
but here is the Worlds" worry:
Brutal wrong-doing or an impotence which
results in a general loosening Of the ties Of
civilized society may finally require interven-
tiOn by some civilized nations. and in the
Western Hemisphere the United States cannot
ignore this duty; but it remains true that our
interests and those Of our southern neighbors are
in reality identical All that we Ssk is that
they shall govern themselves well and be pros
porous and orderly
Not an unreasonable condition to
ask. This country has shown no
disposition to NEEDLE. 1t has not the
slightest thought of conquest or dom
ination. The quotation is wholly IA
yorable to peace. Unbearable situa-
tions might arise, and then evasion
of responsibility would be cowardice
intolerable to the mind of the PFesi-
dent or the enlightened millions who
sustain him. 1t would be wrong, for
instance, to permit a so-called repub-
lie, -OutgrOwth of some adventurer' s
revolution, to become so involved as
to cause war with a power Of Eu-
rope. Such a war would be in con-
travention OF the Monroe Doctrine,
which now has full statutory weight.
To prevent it, would not be "to bully
our neighbOrs," as it seems TO the
Intelligence of the World" but to
save them from folly and disaster.
Cuba was in such a distressing d.
lemma that its rescue was a mere
expression of human impulse. II was
no affair of the United States if
Spain butchered the Inhabitants 70
the last native, and blew the island
into the sea. The United tates took
n different view. It would not have
this horror just off it's own shores.
So IT stopped it, and would take a
similar course again, and once more
win the approval of Christendom.
The little nations, instructed that
they must behave, and this instruc-
ton coupled with the wish that they
be prosperous as well as orderly,
surely are not being bullied in any
degree of violence. But the attempts
Of the avowed commander of the Par
ker hosts TO get up a new style of
war whoop over the matter shows