Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-06

for changes in the present system q
government az The first named. He de-
, sires to see a delegate from Alaska Il
congress-
FOREaGN POLICY.
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, but
there are kinds of peace which are
highly undesirable, which are in the
long run as destructive as any war.
The goal to set before us 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
safeguarded in its own rights, but
scrupulously recognizes and performs
its duty toward others. Generally
peace tells for righteousness, but il
there is conflict between the two then
fealty is due first to the cause of
righteousness. Unrighteous wars are
common and unrighteous 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
well and finely said that freedom is not
n gift that tarries. long in the hands of
towards. Neither docs it tarry long In
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honest or too unintelligent to exercise
it. The eternal vigilance which is the
price of liberty must be- exercised
sometimes TO guard against outside
foes. although, of course, far more of
tel to guard against our own selfish or
t~houghtless shortcomings.
1t is Il duty to remember that Il ma
ton has no moro right to do injustice
to another nation. strong or weak. than
an individual has to do injustice TO an
other individual: that the same moral
law applies in one case as in the other.
But we must also remember that 1t is
MS much the duty of the nation to
guard its own rights and its own inter.
csts as 1t is the duty of the individual
so to do. Until some method is devised
by which there shall be a degree of in
telnational control Owe offending ma
lions it would be a wicked thing for
the most civilized powers. for those
with most sense of international obll-
cations and with keenest and most gen
erous appreciation of the difference be-
| tween right and wrong. to disarm. If
the great civilized nations of the pres
ent day should completely disarm, the
result would mean an immediate re-
crudescence of barbarism in IL form
or another. Under any circumstances a
sufficient armament would have to he
kept up to serve the purposes of inter
national police, and until international
| cohesion and the sense of international
duties and rights are far more ad-
yanced than at present, Il nation desir-
u both of securing respect for itself
and of doing good to others must have
Il force adequate for the work which it
feels is allotted to 1t as its part of the
general world duty. Therefore it fol-
lows that a self respecting, just and
farsceing nation should ON the one
! hand endeayor by every means to aid
in the development of the various
movements which tend to provide sub
stitutes for war, which tend to rendef
nations in their actions toward one an
other and indeed toward their own
peoples more responsive to the general
sentiment of humane and civilized
, mankind. and. on the other hand, that
it should keep prepared, while ,scrupu-
lousy avoiding wrongdoing itself, to
repel any wrong and i'll exceptional
cases to take action which in Il more
advanced stage of international rela-
tons would come under the head of
the exercise of the international police.
ARBITRATION TREATIES.
We are in every way endeavoring to
help on, with cordial good will, every
movement which will tend to bring us
into more friendly relations with the
rest of mankind. In pursuance of this
policy | shall shortly lay before the SEN
ate treaties of arbitration with all pow
ers which are willing to enter into these
treaties with rs. 1t is not possible at
this period of the worlds development
to agree to arbitrate all matters, but
there are many matters of possible
difference between us and other ma
tons which can he thus arbitrated.
Furthermore. at the request of the in
+, terparliamentary union. an eminent
body composed of practical statesmen
from all countries. l have asked tie
powers to join With this government
in a second Hague conference, at which
it is hoped that the work already so
happily begun at The Hague may be
carried some steps further toward
completion. This carries out the do
sire expressed by the first Hague con
ference itself.
POLICY TOWARD OTHER NATIONS
OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
1t is not true that the United States
feels any land hunger or entcrtains
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