Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-12-09

The establishment of hospitals at CEN
trail points, so that contagious diseases
that are brought to them continually by
incoming whites may be localized and
not allowed to become epidemic, to spread
death and restitution over great areas
The development of the educational
system in the form of practical training
in such industries as will assure the In
dams self-support under the changed
conditions in which they will have to live. :
The duties of the office of the governor
should be extended to include the super
vision of Indian affairs, with necessary
assistants in different districts He
should be provided with the means and
the power to protect and advise the ma
tive people. to furnish medical treatment
in time of epidemics, and to extend mate
rial relief in periods of famine and ex-
treme restitution.
Hawaii and Porto Eico.
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 priv
nege Of citizenship should be given to
such may be able to meet certain
definite requirements In Hawaii con-
gress should give the governor power to
remove all the officials appointed under
him. The harbor of Honolulu should be
dredged. The marine-hospital service
should be empowered to study leprosy in
the islands. 1 ask special consideration
for the report and recommendations of
the governor of Porto Rico.
Our Foreign PoI1cy.
In treating OF our foreign policy and of
the attitude that this great nation should
assume in the world at large, 1t is alb
solutely necessary to consider the army
and the navy, and the congress. through
which the thought of the nation finds its
expression, should keep ever vividly in
mind the fundamental fact that It is i'm
possible to treat our foreign policy,
whether this policy takes shape in the
effort to secure justice for others or
too <On- aIr-1e r.ar1
upon the attitude we are willing to take
toward our army, and especially toward
our navy. 1t is not merely unwise, it is
contemplate, for a nation, as for an in
dividual to high-sounding language
to proclaim its purposes, to take posi-
lions which are ridiculous If unsupported
by potential force. and then to refuse to
provide this force If there is no inten-
ton of providing and of keeping the
force necessary to back up a strong at
titude, then it is far better not to assume
such an attitude.
Striving for World Peace.
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 kinds Of
peace which are highly undesirable.
which are in the long run a destructive
any war. Tyrants and oppressors have
many times made a wilderness and
called it peace. Many times peoples who
were SlOtn1uI or tlnlQ OF SnOFlSl&nleOs
who had been enervated by ease by
luxury, or misled by false teachings,
have shrunk in unmanly fashion from
doing duty that was stern and that need
ed self-sacrifice and have sought to hide
from their own minds their shortcom-
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, all these
should be Stunned we shun UPRIGHT
eous war. The goal to set before us as a
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-guarded in its own rights, but
scrupulously recognizes and performs it's
duty toward others Generally peace tells
! for Righteousness; but If there is conflict
! between the two. then our fealty is due
first to the cause of righteousness On
righteous 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 cannot be divorced. One of our
| great poets has we'll and finely said that
freedom is not a gift that tarries long
in the hands of towards. Neither does
it tarry long in the hands of those too
slothful. too dishonest or too unintelli-
gent to exercise it. The eternal vigilance
which is the price of liberty must be ex-
ercised sometimes to guard against out
side foes; although Of course far more
often to guard against our own selfish
,
Not Ready for Disarmament.
If these seIf-evi6ent truths are kept be-
fore us, and only if they kept before
u.s. we shall have a Gear idea of what our
! foreign policy In its larger aspects should
be. 1t is our duty to remember that a ma
ton has 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 ia applies
in one case as in the other But We must
oICa oI0ar hot IL iS rr1I = --.r-x-
of the nation to guard its own rights and
its own interests as it is the duty of the
individual so to do Within the nation the
Individual has now delegated this right
to the state that is, to the represent alive
Of all the individuals, and il is maxim
of the law that for every wrong tEe.e is a
remedy. But in interna :oDal law have
not advanced by any means as far we
have advanced in municipal law There
/ is yet no judicial way Of enforcing & right
! in international law When ore Ition
wrongs another wings many otaers.
: there is nc tribunal before With the wrong
doer can be brought Eitl-er * is necessary
/ supinely to acqu.esce il the wrong, and
! thus pu: a premium upon brutality ard
aggression, csc 1t is necessary FIR the
! aggrieved nation valiaI tly to stand up for
E its rights Until some meth is devised
by which there shall be a degree of inter
national contro- over CEend-- natiCns.
it would be a wicked thing fer the most
! civilized powers for tho with m So SCI Sc
! of International obligations and with keen
/ est and most generous an re -iati = Of the
! difference between right a-C wrong. to dis
arm If the great civil.z d nations of the
present day should con- p e,ely cisarm- tie
result would mean an immediate reeru-
descence Of barbarism il ole f rm or an
| other Under any circCmsts noes a sufTi-
| cient armament would have to kent VI
! to serve the purposes of IL ternatsonz po-
lice; and until international con sioL ard
the sense of international duties and rights
! are far more advanced than at present a
nation DESTROYS both of securing respect
. for Itself and of doing good to others must
have a force adequate for the work which
1t feels is allotted to IL as its part Of the
general world duty. Therefore it follows