Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-10-03
the rights but for the feelings of
others? OF course it is!
"a Polite Nation"


gan 2 nd decent to act in private
life - There are few things cheap
er = more Objectionable, whether
on ii q art of the public man or OF
the / 9 tie man. on the part of
writer "a a speaker, an individual or
grota individuals than a course
of cor q which is insulting or
hurtfu neither in speech or act. to
individ of another nation or to
the rep natives of another nation
or to a Ter nation itself. But the
policy mes infamous from the
standpoi Of the interests of the
United States when it is combined
with the refusal to take those meas
ures Of preparation which can alone
secure us from aggression on the
part of others. The policy of peace
with insult is the very worst policy
upon which it is possible to embark,
whether for a nation or an indivt-
dual. To be rich, unarmed, and yet
insolent and aggressive, is to court
well-nigh certain disaster. The only
safe and honorable rule of foreign
policy for the United states is to
show itself courteous toward other
nations. scrupulous not to infringe
upon their rights, and yet able and
ready to defend it's own. This ma
ton is now on terms of the most
cordial good will with all other ma
tions. Let us make it a prime OBJ
JtCl VI Jul pOiiSS ~ pi iS-7SA'S eiiS1S
Need More Warships.
Let us build up and maintain at
the highest point of efficiency the
United States navy. In any great
war on land we should have to rely
i'm the future as we have relied in
the past chiefly upon volunteer SOL
diers; and although it is indispensa-
BILE that our little army an army
ludicrously small relatively to the
wealth and population of this mighty
nation, should itself be trained to
the highest point and should be
valued and respected as is demanded
by the worth of the officers and en-
listed men, yet it is not necessary
that this army should be large as
compared to the armies of other
great nations. But as regards the
navy all this is different. We have
an enormous coast line, and our
coast line is on two great oceans
To repel hostile attacks the fortifi-
cations, and not the navy, must be
used; but the best way to parry is to
hit-no fight can ever be won except
by hitting-and we can only hit by
means of the navy. 1t is utterly i'm
possible to improvise even a make
shift navy under the conditions of
modern warfare. Since the days of
Napoleon no war between two great
powers has lasted as long as 1t would
take to build a battleship, let alone
a fleet of battleships; and 1t takes
just as long to train the crew of a
battleshiu as it does to build it.; and
as regards the most important things
of all, the training of the officers, 1t
takes much longer. The navy must
be built and all its training given
in time of peace. When once war
has broken out 1t is too late to do
anything. We now have good
navy not yet large enough for our
needs, but of excellent material.
Where a navy is as small as ours,
| the cardinal rule must be that the
battleships shall not be separated.
This year L am happy to say that we
shall begin a course which l hope
will be steadily followed hereafter,
that, namely, of keeping the battle
ship fleet alternately in the Pacific
and in the Atlantic.
All Must Rule.
ut is not in accordance with our
| principles that literally despouc
| power should be put into the hands
of a few men in the affairs of the
industrial world. Our effort must be
| for a just and effective plan of ac-
| ton which, while scrupulously safe
| guarding the rights of the men of
wealth, shall yet, so far as is hu-
manly possible, secure under the law
to all men equality of opportunity to
make a living. 1t is to the interest
of all of us that the man of excep-
| tional business capacity should be
amply rewarded; and there is moth
| ing inconsistent with this in our In
sistence that he shall not be guilty
of bribery or extortion, and that the
rights of the wageworker and of the
| man of small means who are them
selves honest and hard working,
shall be scrupulously safeguarded.
THE instruments for the exercise
| ,F ft,1 r-fV a1 ira a
great corporations which, though
created by the individual states, have
| grown far beyond the control of
! those states and transact their busl-
ness through large sections of the
union. These corporations, like the
| industrial conditions which have
| called them into being, did not exist
when the constitution was founded;
but the wise forethought of the
| founders provided, under the inter-
| state commerce clause of the constl-
| tuition, for the very emergency which
whole will realize what this emerg-
ency is; for If the people thoroughly
realize 1t, their governmental repre-
| sentatives will soon realize IL also.
The national government alone has
sufficiently extensive power and jur-
| isdiction to exercise adequate con-
troll over the great interstate cor
! porations.
Better for Corporations.
While this thorough supervision
and control by the national govern
ment is desirable primarily in the
interest of the people it will also, ]
, firmly believe, be to the benefit of
| those corporations themselves which
desire to be honest and law-abiding
Only thus can We put over these cor
porations one competent and eff
| cient sOvereign-the natiOn-able
both to exact Justice from them and
to secure justice for them, so that
they may not be alternately pamper-
ed and oppressed. The proposal
need be dreaded only by those cor
pOrations which do not wish to obey
the law or to be controlled in just
| fashion, but prefer TO take their
| chances under the present lack OF
| all system and to court the chance
Of getting improper favors as on
| setting the chance of being black