The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-12-06

assistants IN different districts He
should he provided with the means and
the power 20 protect and ADVISE the ma
tive people. 10 furnish medical treatment
In time Of epidemcs. and 70 extend ma
terial relief IN periods OF famine and ex-
tremc restitution
HAWAII AND PORTO RICO.
The Alaskan natives should be given
the right TO acquire hold. and dispose OF
property upon the same conditions as
given other inhabitants: and the privilege
OF citizenship should be given 10 such as
may be able 10 meet certain definite re-
quirements. In Hawaii congress should
give the governor power 10 remove all
/ the Officials appointed under him The
harbor Of Honolulu should be dredged.
The marine, hospital service should be
empowered 10 study leprosy In the ISL
ands ! ask special consideration for the
report and recommendations OF the gov
ernor OF Porto Rico.
FOREIGN POLICY.
In treating OF our foreign policy and Of
the attitude that this great nation should
>-@ @ume i'm the world at large, It is abso-
lutely necessary TO consider the army and
navy and the congress, through which
the thought Of the nation finds its express
sion, should keep ever vividly I'm mind
the fundamental fact that IL is impossi-
BILE to treat Our foreign policy. whether
this policy takes shape I'm the effort to Sc
cure justice for others or justice for our
selves. save as conditioned upon the atti-
tude we are willing 10 take toward our
army, and especially toward our navy. It
is not merely unwise, IL is contemplate,
for a nation, as for an Individual Co use
high-sonndlng language to proclaim it's
purposes, or 10 take positions which are
ridiculous IL unsupported by potential
force and then TO refuse to provide this
force nc there is no intention OF provid
ing and of keeping the force necessary to
back up n strong attitude, then IL Is far
better not TO assume 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
shnll prevail throughout the world the
peace OF Justice. There are kinds OF peace
which are highly undesirable, which are
i'm the long run as destructive as any war.
Tyrants and oppressors have many times
made a wilderness and called IL peace.
Many times peoples who were slothful or
tinlid or shortsighted. who had been ener-
waited by ease or by luxury or misled by
false teachings. have shrunk In unmanly
fashion from doing duty that was stern
and that needed self-sacrifice, and have
sought to hide from their own minds their
shortcomings. their ignobe motives, by
calling them love OF peace.
The peace OF tyrannous terror. the
peace OF craven weakness, the peace of
we shun unrighteous war. The goal 10
set before ms as "A nation. the goal which
should be set before all mankind, Is the
attainment OF the peace OF justice, OF the
peace which comes when each nation is
not merely safe guarded in It's own rights,
hut scrupulously recognizes and performs
It's duty toward others. Generally peace
tells for righteousness but II there is
conflict between the two, then our fealty
is due first TO the cause OF righteousness.
Tnrightcous wars are common. and un-
righteous peace is rare. but both should
be stunned The right OF freedom and
the responsibility for the exercise OF that
right can not be divorced,
one OF our great poets has we'll and fine
ly said that freedom is not a gift that tar
ries long i'm the hands OF towards. Meth
er does Il tarry long in the hands of those
too slothful, too. dishonest, or too unin-
telligent 10 exercise Il. The eternal vigil
ance which Is tho price of liberty must
be exercised sometimes 10 guard against
outside foes; although Of course far more
often to guard against our own selfish or
thoughtless shortcomings.
II these sclf-evident truths are kept be-
fore US, and only " they are so kept be-
core us we shall have a clear idea Of
what our foreign policy I'm its larger as
poets should be IL IL our duty 70 remem-
ber that a nation has no more right 10 do
injustice 10 announcer Hhilous tlIonA VI
weak than an individual has 10 do in1us-
tice to another individual that the same
moral law aples In one case as In the
other But we must also remember that It
is as much tho duty OF the nation 10
guard It's own rights and It's own interests
as II Is the duty of the individual so 10
do. Within the nation the individual has
now delegated this right TO tho state,
that II. 10 the representative OF al the
individuals, and IL is q maxim OF the law
that for every wrong there Is remesy.
But I'm international law We nave not
advanced by any means az far a. we have
advanced I'm municipal law. There IS as
yet no judicial way or onforcing a right
In international law. When one nauon
wrongs another or wrongs many others'
there IS no tribunal before which ths
wrongdocr can be brought Either TX is
necessaf< supinely 90 acqnesce In the
wrong aud thus put premium upon
brtltalitv and aggression, or else II is nee
essary for the aggrieved nation yalanty
to stand M for its rights. Until some
method Is devised by which there shall be
n degree Of international control over of
Tending nations Sc would be wicked
thing FOR the most civilized powers. for
those with most sense OF International OBJ
LEGATIONS and with keenost and most gem
erous appreciation OF the difference be-
tween right and wrong. 20 disarm. II the
great civilized nations OF the present day
should completely disarm, the result
would mean an immediate terecrudescenceo or
harharism In one form or another Under
any circumstances 2 sufficient armament
would have to be kept UP to serve the