The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-12-06

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Our Foreign Policy.
In treating Of cur foreign policy and Of
the attitude that this great nation should
assume In the world az large, II Is ABB
solnteiy necessary 10 consider the Amy
and the navy. and the congress through
which the thought Of the nation finds rs
expression. should keep ever wildly in
mind the fundamental fact that II is Inn
possible TO treat our foreign policy
whether this policy takes shape I'm the
effort TO secure justioe for others or
justice for ourselves, save as conditioned
upon the attitude we are willing TO take
toward our army, and especially toward
our navy. II Is not merely urwise, IL Is
contemplate, FOR a nation, for an in
dividual, 10 use high-sounding language
10 proclaim its purposes, or 10 take posi-
! tions which are ridiculous n unsupported
4 by potential force. ana then 10 refuse TO
provide this force u there Is no inten-
ton Of providing and of keeping the
/ force necessary 10 back up a strong at
titude, then Il Is far better not TO assume
| such an attitude.
| surviving lO1 WOIiu EcdCes
The steady aim Of this nation, as Of all
! enlightened nations, should be 10 strive
/ to bring ever nearer the day when there
shall prevail throughout the world the
peace Of justice. There 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 a wilderness and
called II peace. Many times peoples who
were slothful or timid or shortsighted,
who had been enervated by ease OF BY
luxury, or msled by false teachings
have shrunk IN unmanly fashion from
doing duty that was stern and that need
| ed self-sacriace and have sought to hide
| from their own minds their shortcona-
ings, their ignoble motives. by calling
| them love Of peace. The peace of tyran-
nous terror, the peace OF craven weak
| ness, the peace OF Injustice. ali these
should be summed as we shun unright.
/ eOus war. The goal TO set before US as Q
| nation, the goal which should be set be
fore all mankind. Is the attainment OF
| the peace Of justice, Of the peace which
! comes when each nation Is not merely
safe-guaTded in ITS own rights, bu
scrupulously recognizes and performs iu
duty toward others Generally peace tell
for righteousness. but II there Is coniic
between the two, then oUr fealty Is due
first TO the cause OF righteousness un
righteous wars are common, and un
righteous peace is rare, but both shoul'
be stunned The right OF freedom an,
the responsibility for the exercise of tina
right cannot be divorced one Of GU
great poets has well and finely said tina
freedom IS not a gift that tarries lonl
In The hands of towards Neither doe
IL tarry long In the hands Of those to
/ slothful. too dishonest or too unintelii
gent 20 exercise IL. The eternal vigilanc
which Is the price of liberty must be *
ercised sometimes 10 guard against out
side foes although Of course FAR NOR
often to guard against our own selhsl
or thoughtless shortcomings,
Not Ready for Disarmament.
I II these self-evident truths are kept be
. fore us. and only II they are 50 kept befor
. US We shall have a clear idea OF what ou
foreign policy IN It's larger aspects shoul
be- Ii Is our duty 10 remember that ne
tion has no more right 10 do injustice {
another nation. strong or weak than a
{ individual has to DO injustice 20 anothe
Individual; that the same moral law apple
in one case as IN the other But We mus
also remember that IL Is as much the dut
OF the nation to guard its own rights an
It's own Interests as it Is the duty OF IN
} individual SO 10 do Within the nation IN
individual has now delegated this righ
I 10 the state that is 70 the representativ
II an The individuals, and-tt is q maxi