The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-16

4 R0WEkS AIG kiHEu 10 E0SI4 I0T .IlG
specific purpose; they have no wa
rant OF attorney to xpres or give e
feet to the benevolent or hnmanitaria
impulses of their constituents; unde
constitutional government, as a ruiz
such expression is not committed b
law to public officers, hut is reverse
to the people. In the discharge c
their international duties governmer
tai officers have to deal with a worl
OF selfish competition and ever-presen
POSSIBILITY of aggression and injury
which compel them to think first AM
chiefly of the interest of their Owl
country as a lawyer argues the cas-,
of his own client. They are constrail
ed by the rules of conduct between
nations which the experience of cen
turtles a shown to be necessary tt
the peace of the world. Among The
first of these is, that the government,
of each nation shall attend to it's owl
business and respect the sovereignty
and refrain from interfering with tbs
internal affairs of every other nation
This rule is the chief protection of lib
erty of small and weak nations against
the aggression of the strong. To break
it down whenever the officers of one
government disapprove the conduct OF
| another government within its own il
risdiction, would be to break down the
barriers which civilization has erect
ed for the protection of the weak, with
results as fatal as if the executive
were allowed to make orders and the
Judge issue DEGREES according to Their
own kindly impulses, without regard
20 the limitations OF law.
1t is natural that the altruistic and
humanitarian view, broader and les@
Immediately practical, shall be taken
by Students and thinkers, by teachers
and philosophers, by men who, not
burdened by the necessity of putting
theories N practice, are at liberty
to ook upon the world as it ought to
be and to urge mankind on toward ac-
ceptance OF their ideals. These men
are masters of their own power; they
nave a warrant from all whom their
eloquence, their persuasion, their rea-
soning, or the inherent soundness 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,
heir power and their following have
increased, most of all in lands, where
freedom is most perfect and justice
most pure, until the voices of the few
Missionaries, long g crying in the
wilderness, have become the sound
of a multitude, and a public opinion of
the world, insisting upon righteous
ess and peace among nations as
among individuals, is beginning to be
perceived and to affect the national
which governments repre-
1t is inevitable that the men who
are directed by these two widely diff
fering impulses should sometimes be
;porotior+ Of oooh 9th Tho human n
itarian is repealed by the hardness of
the practical man, h seems unsym-
pathetic in his failure to act upon
views that are certainly sound in the
abstract and which ought to be &C
cepted by all the world. The prac-
teal administrator is distressed by
the urgency of the theorist, who, igno-
ant of real conditions, urges him to
a course of action which he knows
can not possibly be taken, or, if it
were taken under existing conditions,
would result only in evil. One tends
TO think lightly of the other as an i'm
practicable tneorist, and in return is
by the other as unfeeling
and cynical. Both judgments are
probably often, to some extent true,
but both are generally, and to a much
greater extent, wrong. Each class
plays its necessary part in the great
work of advancing civilization. 1t can
not be doubted that the supreme re
suits for humanity are by the
the union, the blending
Of the two impulses, to the end that
selfshness may be most
broadly intelligent and humanitarian
dealism most effectively practical.
The end toward which this assem-
olage strives-the peace of the world
be attained just as rapidly as
millions of the earth's peoples
earn to love peace and abhor war;;
% love justice and hate w~rongdoing;
@ be ~considerate in Judgment and
kindly in feeling toward aliens as
joward their own friends and neigh
1ors; and to desire that their own
sha regard the rights OF
rather than be grasping and
overreaching. The paint to universal
peace is not through s or intel
ectual appreciation, but through the
development of peace-loving and
3eace-keping character among men;
nd that this development, slow tho
t be as measured by our short lives,
S WIN STEADY ana unre
advance from generation to
no student of history can
question. The greatest benefit of the
Peace Conference of 1907 will be, as
that of the Peace Conference of
LS99, in the fact Of the Conference it
self; in it's powerful influence mold
ng the characters of men; in the
;pectacIe of all the great powers of
he earth meeting in h name of
,eace, and exalting, as worthy of hon-
,r and desire, national ~self-control
considerate Judgment and will
to do justice.
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