The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-12-07

southern neighbors are in reality iden-
;ticai. They have great natural riches,
and IL within their borders the reign
of law and Justice obtains. prosperity
| is sure TO come 10 them. We would
interfere with them only IN the last
| resort, and then only II it became cyl.
dent that their inability or unwilling.
ness to do Justice at home and abroad
had violated the right of the United
States or had invited foreign aggres
sion to the detriment of the entire
body Of American nations. II is a
mere trulsm to say that every nation.
whether in America or anywhere else,
which desires TO maintain its freedom
its independence, must ultimately
realize that the right of such indie
pendenee can not be separated from
the responsibility of making good use
of it.
In asserting the Monroe doctrine, in
taking such steps as we have taken In
regard 10 Cuba. Venezuela and Pana
ma, and in endeavoring to circum-
scribe the theater of war in the Far
East. and 10 secure the open door in
China, we have acted in our own in
terest as we'll as in the interest OF hui
mainly at large. There are, however
cases in which while our own inter
ests are not greatly involved, strong
appeal is made TO our sympathies. Or
dinarily il is very much wiser and
more useful for US to concern our
selves with striving for our own NOR
al and material betterment here at
home than TO concern ourselves with
trying TO better the condition of
things in other nations. We have
plenty of sins of our own to war
against, and under ordinary circum-
stances We can do more for the gem
eral uplifting of humanity by striving
with heart and soul to put stop TO
civic corruption. to brutal lawlessness
aud violent race preiudices here at
home than by passing resolutions
about wrongdoing elsewhere, Never
theless there are occasional crimes
committed on so vast a scale and of
such peculiar horror as TO make us
doubt whether it is not our manifest
iuty to endeavor at least to show our
disapproyal of the deed and our sym
patty with those who have suffered
by IT, The cases must be extreme in
which such a course is justifiable.
Yet It is not to be expected that
a people like ours, which in spite of
certain very obvious shortcomings,
nevertheless as a whole shows by its
consistent practice its belief in the
principles of civil and religious lib
srty and Of orderly freedom, people
among whom even the worst crime,
Ike the crime of Iynching, is never
more than sporadic, SO that indiyidu.
ais and not classes are molested in
their fundamental rights-it is in
svitable that such a nation should
lesiro eagerly 20 give expression 10
is horror on an occasion like that Of
he massacre of the Jews in Kishenef.
or when 1t witnesses such systematic
and long extended cruelty and oppres
sion as the cruelty and oppression of
which the Armenans have been the
victims, and which have won for them
ne indignant pity OF the civilized
world.
Rights of American Citizens Abroad.
Even where 1t is not possible 10 Sc
Ia, .fh "a n'nc -
of the principles which we accept az
automatic. II is necessary for us firm
ly 10 insist upon the rights OF our
own citizens without regard TO their
whether they were born here or born
abroad II has proved very difficult
TO secure from Russia the right for
our Jewish fellow-citizens to receive
passports and travel through Russian
territory Such conduct is not only
unjust and irritating toward US. but
| IL is difficult to see its wisdom from
| Russias standpoint. No cnoceiyable
| good is accomplished by IT, II an
American Jew or an American Christ
ian misbehaves himself in Russia he
can be driven out but the ordinary
American Jew like the ordinary
American Christian. would behave
| Just about as he behaves here, that
IS, behave as any good citizen ought
/ to behave; and where this Is the case
/ L is a wrong against which we are en-
/ titled TO protest to refuse him his
/ passport without regard to his con
| duct and character merely on racial
and religious grounds. In Turkey our
difficulties arise less from the way
in which our citizens are sometimes
treated than from the indignation in.
evitably excited in seeing such fear
full misrule as has been Witnessed
both in Armenia and Macedonia.
The Navy.
The strong arm Of the government
in enforcing respect for its just rights
in international matters is the navy
Of the United States. most earnest
~ recommend that there be no halt
in the work of upbuilding the Ameri-
can navy There is no more patriotic
duty before us as a people than 10
keep the navy adequate to the needs
OF this country's positiOn. We have