Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1904-12-07

1t would be a'wicked thing for the most
civilized powers, for those with most sense
OF international obligations and with keen
est and most generous appreciation of the
olHerence, between right and wrong. to dis
arm. If the great civilized nations of the
present day should completely disarm, the
result would mean an Immediate recru
descence of barbarism in one form or am
other Under any circumstances suff1-
clent armament would have to be kept u1
10 serve the purposes of International DO
nee; and +until International cohesion and
the sense Of international duties and rights
are Tar more advanced than at present,
natlon oes1rous both of securing respect
Tor itself and Of doing good to others must
nave iorce adequate for the work which
IL 1eels Is allotted to it as it's part of the
general world duty Therefore it follows
that self-respecting, just and far-seeing
hatlon should on the one hand endeavor
W every means to aid in the development
eae various movements which tend to
provioe substitutes for war, which tend to
ienuer NATIONS in their actions toward che
announcer, and indeed toward their own peo-
pes more responsive to the general senti-
tnehI OF humane and civilized mankind:
ana on the other hand, that it should keep
prepared. While scrupulously avoiding
Wrongdolng itself, to repel any wrong, and
IN exceptional cases to take action which
relations would come under the head of the
exercise OF the International police. A
great Tree people owes it to itself and to all
mankind not to sink into helplessness be-
fore the powers of evil
49, Second Hague Conference.
We are lnevery way endeavorine to helm
on wirr cordial good will, every movement
Whlcn Will tend to bring us into more friend
~ relatlons with the rest of mankind In
pursuance of this policy shall shortly lay
De1ore the senate treaties of arbitration
with all powers which are willing to enter
lnte these treaties with us. 1t is not pos
slole at this period Of the worlds develop.
ment to agree to arbitrate all matters but
tnere are many matters of possible differ
ence between us and other nations which
can be thus arbitrated. Furthermore. at
the request of the Interparliamentary
union, an eminent body composed of prac-
ucal statesmen from all countries, l have
asked the powers to join with this govern
ment IN second Hague conference, at
which it is hoped that the work already so
happily begun at The Hague may be car
req some steps further toward completion.
Ihls carries out the desire expressed by
the nrst Hague conference ITSELF
The Monroe Doctrine.
In asserting the Monroe Doctrine in TAX
CUBA, VeLeZuela and Panama, and in en-
ueaVorlng to c1rcumscribe the theater OF
war IN the far east, and to secure the open
door in China, we have acted in our own
interest as we'll as in the interest of human
lty at large. There are, however, cases in
"hlcn, while our own interests are not
greatly involved, strong appeal is made to
our sympathies Ordinarily it is very much
wiser and more useful for US to concern
ourselves with striving for our own mora,
ana material betterment here at home than
10 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 circumstances
we can do more for the genera; uplifting Of
humanity by striving with heart and SON
TO put stop to civic corruption to brutal
laWlessress and violent race preiudices
mere at home than by passing resolutions
ABOUT Wrongdoing elsewhere Neverthe
less there are occasional crimes committed
on soVaSt scale and of such peculiar hor
"ror as 10 make. us doubt whether it is no,
our manifest duty to endeavor at least tt
snow our dlsapproval of the deed and ou]
sympathy with those who have suffered b,
It: The cases must be extreme in which
Such course is justifiable There must bt
no effort made to remove the mote from
our brothers eye if we refuse to remov,
the beam from our own. But in extreme
cases action may be justifiable and proper
what form the action shall take must de-
peho upon the circumstances of the case
that is, upon the degree of the atrocity ant
upon our power to remedy it, The case
IN which we could interfere by force O.
arms as we interfered to put stop to in
tolerahle conditions in Cuba are neces
sarly very few. Yet it is not to be expected
that people like ours, which in spite O
certain very obvious shortcomings, never
,h~1o e,t>-
practice it's belief in the principles of civil
and religious liberty and of orderly free
dom, people among whom even the wors
crime, like the crime of lynching, is neye
more than sporadic, so that individuals AM
not classes are molested in their funda
mental r1ghts-it is inevitable that such :
nation should desire eagerly to give expires
SION to Its horror on an occasion like tina
or the massacre of the Jews in Kishinefr O.
when it witnesses such systematic a nj
long-extended cruelty and oppression a.
the cruelty anu oppression of which tn
Armenians have been the victims, AM
which have won for them the indignan
pity of the civilized world
The Philippines.
In the Philippine islands there has bee,
during the past year a continuation O
the steady progress which has obtaine,
ever since our troops definitely got tn
upper hand of the insurgents. The Phil
lpplne people. or, to speak more accur
ately, the many tribes, and even races
sundered from one another more or les
sharply who go to make up the peopl
Of the Philippine islands, contain man,
| elements of good, and some element
which we have right to hope stand TO
progress. At present they are utterl
| incapable, of existing in independence a
all or of building up civilization o
their own. 1 firmly believe that we ca
| help them to rise higher and higher +
| the scale of civilization and of capacit
| for self-government, and 1 most earnest
ly hope that in the end they will be abb
! to stand, If not entirely alone vet l.
some such relation to the United State
as Cuba now stands. This end is not We
in sight, and it may be indefinitely post
poned If our people are foolish enough t
turn the attention of the Filipinos ava
from the problems of achieving mora
| and material prosperity, of working fo
| a stable, orderly and just government
and toward foolish and dangerous in
! trigues for complete independence fo
which they are as yet totally unfit.
On the other hand our DeODle mns
keep steadily before their minds the fac
that the justification for our stay in tn
Philippines must ultimately rest chief
| upon the good we are able to do in til
islands. I do not overlook the fact tina
| in the development of, our interests
the Pacific ocean and along it's coast
the Philippines have played and will pla
| an important part, and that our interest
/ have been served in more than one wa
by the possession of the Islands. But on
chief reason for continuing to hold thel
must be that we, ought In good fait
to try to do our share of the world
work, and this particular piece OF wor
has been imposed upon us by the result,
of the war with Spain.
For Elective Government.
Within, two years we shall be tryin
the experiment. Of an elective lowe
house atAs thu Philippine, legislature.
this legislature, and they certainly wi
misuse it Il they are misled by FOOLS
persons here at home into starting a