Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-12-10
periods OF flv
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and extreme deshtu'

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Haws 4 Porto Rico.
The Alasks tives should be given
the right to ire. hold and dispose
or property the same conditions
as given oil. inhabitants, and the
privilege Of i aship should be given
TO such as rnf : able to meet certain
definite requi seiIts. In Ha-yaii con.
gress shout e the governor power
to remove he officials appointed
under him. e harbor OF Honolulu
should be ed- The marine hos
pital servic, nd be empowered to
study lepros the islands. L ask
special cons' ION for the report and
recommends as of the governor Of
Porto Rico
Foreign Policy.
In treating of our foreign policy and
of the attitude that this great nation
should assure in the world at large it
Is absolutely necessary TO consider the
army and tse navy. and the congress,
through viii the thought of the ma
ton finds Il expression, should keep
ever vividly il, mind the fundamental
fact that L 5 impossible to treat our
foreign policy. whether this policy
takes shape IN the effort to secure jus,
uce for others or justice for ourselves,
save as Conditioned upon the attitude
we are willine to take toward our ar,
my and esp, lily toward our navy. It
Is not mere tunwise, Ii is contempti-
bic. for n; on. as for an individual,
TO use high lnding language to pro-
re mn 70, fo1-r
which are diculous, if unsupported
by potentisi force, and then to refuse
to provide this force. If there Is no in
tention of providing and of keeping the
force necessary to back up strong at
titude, then 1t is far better not to as
sumo 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 Many
times peoples who were slothful or
timid or shortsighted. who had been
enervated by ease or by luxury or mis-
led by false teachings, have shrunk In
unmanly fashion from doing duty that
was stern and that needed self sacri-
flee and hive sought to hide from their
own minds their shortcomings, their
ignoble motives, by calling them love
of peace. The peace of tyrannous ter
ho no Of
peace of 'njustice-all these should be
Stunned as we shun unrghteous war
The goal set before us as a nation, the
goal which should be set before all
mankind Is the attainment Of the
peace or justice, Of the peace which
comes Wen each nation is not merely
safeguarasd In its own rights, but
scrupuio, j recognizes and performs
its duty toward others. Generally
peace tells for righteousness, but IL
there is ceufiict between the two then
our feaic IS due first to the cause Of
righteous IS. Unrighteous wars are
- ..->sa 80. 80 rprlvhteous peace IS
rare, but both should be stunned. The
right OF freedom and the responsibility
for the exercise of that right cannot be
divorced. One OF our great poets has
well ard finely said that freedom Is not
a gift that tarries long In the hands Of
cowards. Neither does it tarry long In
the hands OF those too slothful too dis
homes or too unintelligent TO exercise
1t. The eternal vigilance which is the
price " liberty must be exercised
sometimes 10 guard against outside
foes, although. OF course, far more often
to guard against our own selfish or
thoughtiess shortcomings.
IL these self evident truths are kept
before us. and only IL they are so kept
before us, we shall have clear idea of
what our foreign policy in its larger
aspects should be. 1t is our duty TO
remember that a nation has no more
right TO do injustice to another nation,
strong or weak. than an individual has
to do Injustice 10 another individual:
that the same moral law applies in one
case as In the other But we must
also remember that il Is as much the
duty OF the nation to guard its own
rights and its own interests as IL Is the
duty Of the individual so to do With
in the nation the Individual has now
delegated this right TO the state-that
Is, TO the representative of all the IN
dlviduals-and it is maxim of the law
that for every wrong there is n remedy.
But In International 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
right i'm international law. When
one nation wrongs another or wrongs
many others, there is no tribunal be-
fore which the wrongdoer can be
brought Either 1t is necessary supine-
~ TO acquiesce In the wrong and thus
put premium upon brutality and ag-
gression or else it Is necessary for the
aggrieved nation valiantly to stand I'D
for Its rights. Until some method is
devised by which there snail be a de-
gree Of international control over of
tending nations 1t would be a wick ed
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 disarm.
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