Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-04-16

their specific powers are given to them
for that specific purpose; they have no
warrant of attorney to express or give
effect to the benevolent or humani-
tartan impulses of their constituents;
under constitutional government, as
rule, such expression is not COM
mitted by law to public officers, bat
is reserved to the people. In the dis
charge of their International duties
governmental officers have to deal
with Il world of selfish competition
and ever-present possibility OF ag-
gression and injury, which compel
them to think first and chiefly of the
interests OF their own country as
lawyer argues the case for his own
client. They are constrained by the
rules Of conduct between nations which
the experience OF centuries has shown
to be necessary to the peace of the
peace OF the world Among the first
OF these is that the government Of
each nation shall attend to its own
business and respect the sovereignty
and refrain from interfering with the in
ternal affairs of every other nation.
This rule is the chief protection OF
the liberty of small and weak nations
against the aggression of the strong.
To break down the barriers which CIV
lization has erected for the protection
of the weak, with results as fatal as
If the executive were allowed to make
orders and the Judge to issue DEGREES
according to their own kindly impuls-
es. without regard to the limitations OF
law.
Atrusnn the Students View.
1t is natural that the altruistic and
Immediately practicable. shall be taken
by students and thinkers, by teachers
and philosophers, by men, who not
burdened by the necessity of putting
theories into practice. are at liberty
to look upon the world as it ought
to be and to urge mankind on toward
acceptance of their ideals. These men
are masters of their own power; they
have a warrant from all whom their
eloquence, their persuasion, their
reasoning to the inherant soundncss
of their ideas brings into agreement
with them, to press their views upon
the world and insist upon conformity.
In every civilized land their numbers,
their power, and their following have
increased, most of all in lands where
freedom is mos perfect and justice is
most pure, until the voices of the few
Missionaries. long ago crying in he
wilderness have become the sound of
multitude, and a public opinion of
the world insisting upon righteousness
and peace among nations as among
! individuals, is beginning to be per-
| ceived and to affect the national pur-
poses which governments represent.
| It is inevitable that the men who
are directed by these two widely diff
| fering impulses should sometimes be
! impatient of each other. The humani-
tartan is repealed by the hardness IF
| the practical man, who seems I'M
symathetic in his failure to act upIn
views that are certainly sound in the
abstract and which ought to be &C
cepted by all the yorld. The practi-
cal administrator is distressed by the
urgency of the theorist, who, ignorant
of the real conditions, urges HIM t.
a course of action which he knows can
not possibly be taken, or, II 1t were
taken under existing conditions. would
result only in evil. One tends to think
lightly of the other as an impractic-
able theorist, and in return is con-
demned by the other as unfeeling and
cynical. Both judgments are probaIb-
ly often, to some extent, true. bu
greater extent wrong. Each class
plays its necessary part in the grea
work of advancing civilization /
can not be doubted that the supreme
results for humanity are secured D!
the combination, the union. the blend
ing of the two impulses, to the err
that national selfishness shall be mos
broadly intelligent and Humanitarian
idealism most effectively practical.
America Welcomes Peace.
Your invitation to take part in thi
Peace Conference has come to me a
an occasion to declare the allianc
and sympathy of the American gov
eminent with that other power-whic
in all lands, ans most strongly in GU
generation, without fleets or armie
or titles or dignitaries or compulsio
of force, is leading mankind continu
: ally to a no5ler life. The America
people are practical, material, strenu
GUS in business. eager for wealth en-
ergetic in production and venturous
commerce, insistent upon their right
proud OF their country, Jealous OF II
! power and its prestige; but there
strain of idealism in the America
nature which saves our nation frol
the grossness of sordid materiahsi
and makes it responsive to every ar
peal in the behalf of liberty an
: righteousness. of peace with justic