The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-20
An Aggressive Foreign Policy.

IN foreign affairs we must make up our
are a great people and must play a great
part in the world. 1t is not open to us
to choose whether we will pioy that great
can decide is whether we shall play 1t well
o. i'll. And l a too much confidence in
my countrymen to doubt what the decision
will be. Our mission in the world should
be one Of peace, but not the peace of crav-
ems, the peace granted c~ontemptuously to
those who purchase It by surrcndering the
for peace because II is raised for righteous
ness. first and for peace only as the hand
maiden of righteousness. We must be
scrupulous in respecting the rights of the
weak, and no less careful to make 1t evil
dent that We do not act through fear of
the strong. We must be scrupulous in do
ing Justice to others and scruDulous in
exacting justice for ourselves. We must
beware equally of that sinister and cynical
teaching which would persuade us to dis
regard ethical standards in intcrnational
which would stop the whole work OF civ
i~lization by a well-meant but silly persist
encS in trying to apply to peoples untitled
of national! action which are only suited
for the most advanced races.
Must Keep Order in West Indies.
In particular we must remember that in
undertaking to build the Panama canal we
seas at either end of it; and this means
that we have q peculiar interest In the pre-
scrvation of order in the coasts and islands
Of the Caribbean. ] 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 liberty so that they can
stand alone. If we decline to give them
such help the result will be bad both for
hem and for us; and will in the end in all
probability cause us to face humiliation or
,loodshed.
Must Curb MonopoIists.
u,lo ,,r,l,Jnp,y t1,,t fa,,, n, ,l,,.l ,,a
important, but the problems tina face us
at home are even more Important. The
extraordinary growth of industrialism
during the last half century brings every
civilized people face to face with the grav-
est social and economic questions. This
IS an age of combination among capital
ers. 1t is idle to Try to prevent such COM
binations. Our efforts should be to see
that they work for the good and not for
the harm i. Of the body polite; New devices
order to meet the changed and changing
conditions.
Many republics have risen IN the past,
sooner or later they fell: and the cause
most potent in bringing about their fall
was in almost all cases the fact that they
a class instead of governments in the in
terest of all. 1t made no difference as to
which class 1t was that thus wrested to
Its own advantage the governmental ma
chinery. 1t was ultimately as fatal to the
cause of freedom whether 1t was the rich
who oppressed the poor or the poor who
~olundered the rich.
Each Must Give Square Deal.
The crime of brutal disregard of the
rights of others is as much a crime when 1t
manifests itself in the shape of greed ard
I brutal arrogance on the one side, as when
1t manifcsts Itself In the shape of envy
and laWlcSs violence on the other. Our
am must be TO deal justice to each man;
no more and no less.
If we as citizens of this nation are true
to ourselves and to the traditions Of our
forcfathcrs such fair measure of justice
shall always be dealt to each man; so that
as far as we can bring 1t about each hall
receive his dues. each shall be given the
chaacc to show the stuff there is in him,
shall be secured against wrong, and IN
turn prevented from wrong.ng others.
More than this no man Is entitled to, and
'CSS than this no man shall havpn