Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-12-06

onAioAly AdSAAou lfOIu uOlug duty ina
was stern and that needed self sacri
flee and have sought to hide from thei
own minds their shortcomings, thei
1gnoble motives, by calling them Low,
OF peace The peace of tyrannous ter
Tor, the peace of craven weakness, tn,
peace of injustice--all these should b,
Stunned as we shun unrighteous war
The goal set before us as q nation, tn,
goal which should be set before al
mankind, is the attainment Of til.
peace of justice, Of the peace which
comes when each nation is not merel,
safeguarded in it's own rights, bu
scrupulously recognizes and perform.
Its duty toward others. Generally
peace tells for righteousness, but II
there is conflict between the two ther
our fealty is due first to the cause OF
Righteousness. Unrighteous wars are
common, and unrighteous peace il
rare, but both should be Stunned. The
right Of freedom and the responsibility
Tor the exercise of that right cannot be
divorced. One Of our great poets has
well and finely said that freedom is not
q gift that tarries long in the hands OF
towards. Neither does it tarry long In
the hands of those too slothful. too dis
honest or too unintelligent to exercise
1t. The eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty must be exercised
sometimes to guard against outside
1oes, although, of course, far more often
to guard against our own selfish OF
thoughtless shortcomings
If these self evident truths are kept
before us, and only if 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 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 it is as much the
duty of the nation to guard it's own
rights and its own interests as it 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 oil the in
d1v1duals-and it is maxim Of the law
that for every wrong there is a 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 in international law. When
one nation wrongs another or wrongs
many others, there is no tribunal be-
fore which the wrongdoer can be
brought. Either it is necessary supine.
~ to acqutesce in the wrong and thus
put a premium upon brutality and ag-
gression or else it is necessary for the
aggrieved nation valiantly to stand up
for Its rights. Until some method is
devised by which there shall be de-
gree of international control over Of
Tending nations it would be a 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 disarm.
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 purposes of inter
national police, and until international
cohesion and the sense Of international
duties and rights are far more adj
vanced than at present nation desir-
ot1s both Of securing respect for itself
and of doing good to others must have
a force adequate for the work which it
feels is allotted to it as its part Of the
general world duty. Therefore it fol-
lows that self respecting, just and
farseeing nation should on the one
hand endeavor by every means to aid
In the development Of the various
movements which tend to provide sub
shtutes for war, which tend to render
nations in their actions toward one an
other, and indeed toward their own
peoples, more responsive to the gener-
al sentiment Of humane and civilized
mankind, and on the other hand it
should keep prepared, while scrupu-
lousy avoiding wrongdoing itself, to
repel any wrong and in exceptional
cases to take action which in a more
advanced stage Of international rela-
tons would come under the head Of the
exercise of the international police. A
great free people owes it to itself and
to all mankind not to sink into help.
lessness before the powers Of evil.
Arbitration Treaties.
We are in every way endeavoring to
help on, with cordial good will, every
movement which will tend to bring us
into more friendly relations with the
rest Of mankind. In pursuance Of this
policy shall shortly lay before the
senate treaties of arbitration with all
powers which are willing to enter into
these treaties with us. It is not pos
sible at this period of the works de-
vel0pment to agree to arbitrate all mat
tiers, but there are many matters Of
possible difference between us and 9th.
er nations which can be thus arbitrat-
ed. Furthermore, at the request Of the
1nterparliamentary union, an eminent
body composed Of practical statesmen
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