The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-19


 countrymen 10 doubt what the deci- sion will be. Our mission in the world should be one of peace, but not the peace of crayens, the peace granted contemptuously 10 those who purchase it by surrendering the right. No! Our voice must b. effective for peace because it is raised for righteousness first and for peace only as the hand maiden of righteousness. We must De scrupulous in exacting justice for our the weak. and no less careful to make it evident that We do not act through fear of the strong. We must be scrup- ulous in doing justice to others and scrupulous in axacting justice for our selves. We must beware equally or that sinister and cynical teaching which would persuade us to disregard ethical standards in international rela- tions, and of the no less hurtful folly which would stop the whole work of civilization by a well-meant persisten- cy in trying to apply to peoples unfit ted for them those theories of govern ment and of national action which are only suited for the most advanced races. In particular we must remem- Der that in undertaking to build the Panama Canal we have necessarily undertaken to police the seas at either end of it; and this means that We have peculiar interest in the preservation of order in the coasts and islands Of the Caribbean. l firmly believe that by a little wise and generous aid we can help even the most backward of the peoples in these coasts and islands forward along the path of orderly ib- erty so that they can stand alone. If we decline to give them such help the result will be bad both for them and for us; and will in the end in all prob ability cause us to face humiliation or bloodshed.
 The problems that face us abroad are important, but the problems that face us at home are even more impor- tant. The extraordinary growth of in dustrialism during the last half centu- ry brings every civilized people face to face with the gravest social and eco- homie questions. This is an age of combination among capitalists and combination among wage-workers. It is idle to prevent such combinations. Our efforts should be to see that they work for the good and not for the harm of the body polite. New devices of law are necessary from time to time in order to meet the changed and changing conditions. But after all we ! will do well to remember that although the problems to be solved change from, generation to generation, the spirit in which their solution must be attempt ed remains forever the same. It is in peace as 1t is in war. Tactics change and weapons change. The Confidential troops in their blue and buff who fought under Washington and Greene and Wayne, differed entirely in arms and in training from those who in blue or gray faced, one another In the armies of Grant and of Lee, of Sher- man and of Johnston. And now the sons of these same Union and Cofeder- ate veterans who serve in our gallant little army of to-day, wear different uniform, carry different weapon, and practice different tactics. But the soul of the soldier has remained the same throughout and the qualities which drove forward to victory or to death the men of '76 and the men of '61, are the very qualities which the men of ! to-day must keep unchanged if in the hour of need the honor of the nation is to be kept untarnished. So 1t is in civil life. This government was formed with as it's basic idea the prin- ciple of treating each man on his worth as a man, of paying no heed to whether he was rich or poor, no heed to his creed or his social standing, but only to the way in which he performed his duty to himself, to his neighbor, to the state. From this principle we can not afford to vary by so much as a | hands breadth. Many republics have risen in the past, and some of them | f1ourished long, but sooner or later | they fell; and the cause most potent in | bringing about their fall was in al
 most all cases the fact that they grew to be governments in the interest of g. class instead of governments in the in- terest of all. It made no difference as l to which class it was that thus wrest- l ed to it's own advantage the govern mental machinery. It was ultimately as fatal to the cause of freedom whether it was the rich who oppressed the poor or the poor who plundered the rich. The crime of brutal disregard of the rights of others is as much crime when it manifests itself in the shape of greed and brutal arrogance on the one side, as when it nlanifests itself in the shape of envy and lawless violence on the other. Our aim must be to deal justice to each man: no more and no less This purpose must find it's eX- pression and support not merely in our collective action through the agen- cies of the government, but in our so- cial attitude. Rich man and poor man must alike feel that on the one hand they are protected by law and that on the other hand they are responsible to the law; for each is entitled to be fair l ly dealt with by his neighbor and by the state; and if we as citizens of this nation are true to ourselves and to the traditions of our forefathers such fair measure of justice shall always be dealt to each man; so that as far as we can bring it about each shall re- | ceive his dues, each shall be given the 1 chance to show the stuff there is in him, shall be secured against wrong, and in turn prevented from wronging