The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-07

1I1I the very men of ioftiest and most ex- alted morality so I believe that in na- tional life as the ages go by we shall find that the permanent national types will more and more tend toward those in which, while the intellect stands high, character stands higher, in which rugged strength and courage, rugged capacity to resist wrongful aggression by others. will go hand in hand with lofty scorn of doing wrong to oth- CTS.
 The Greatest Empire.
 You belong to a nation which pos sesses the greatest empire upon which the sun has ever shone. I belong to a nation which is trying on a scale hitherto unexampled to work out the problems of government for, of and by the people, while at the same time doing the international duty of a great power.
 But there are certain problems which both of us have to solve and as to which our standards should be the same. The Englishman, the man of the British isles, in his various homes across the seas and the American both at home and abroad are brought into contact with utterly alien peoples, some with a civilization more ancient than our own, others still in or having but recently arisen from the barba- rism which our people left behind ages ago.
 The problems that arise are of well nigh 1nconceivable difficulty. They cannot be solved by the foolish senti- mentality of stay at home people with little patent recipes and those cut and dried theories of the political nursery which have such limited applica biltty amid the crash of elemental forces.
 Neither can they be solved by the raw brutality of the men who, wheth- CT at home or on the rough frontier of civilization, adopt might as the only standard of right in dealing with oth- CT men and treat alien races only as subjects for exploitation.
 l hold that the laws of morality which should govern individuals in LuCA 0Cdl1uHo ChC WILL kAG OkACA 0xS just as binding concerning nations in their dealings one with the other. The application of the moral law must be different in the two cases, because in one case it has and in the other it has not the sanction of a civil law with force behind it. 1t would be foolish indeed to pay. heed to the unwise per- hn ddn1rn orrv,o fn ho begun by the very peoples who of all others should not be left helpless be- fore any possible foe. But we must reprobate quite as strongly both the leaders and the peoples who practice or encourage or eondope aggression and iniquity by. the sffofag at the ex- pense of the weak.
 We should tolsrate lawlessness and wickedness neither by the weak nor by the strong. and both weak and strong we should in return treat with scrupulous fairness The foreign pol icy of great and self respecting coun- try should be conducted on exactly the same plane of honor, of insistence upon ones own rights and of respect xOl tAG AkEAlc VI OtACACs 0o " hCA a brave and honorable man is dealing with his fellows
 Permit me to support this statement out of my own experience. For nearly eight years Twas the head of a great nation and chafged especially with the conduct ofstts foreign policy, and dur ing those years. I took no action with reference to any other people on the face of the earth that l would not have felt justified in taking as an in dividual in dealing with other individ- uals.
 Try at Least.
 believe that we of the great civ flized nations of today have right to feel that long careers of achieve ment lie before our several countries. To each of us is vouc hsafed the hon. orabie PrivileSe of doing his part. how ever small. in that work.
 Let us strive hardly for success. even if by so doing we risk failure. spurning the poorer souls of small en- deavor who know neither failure nor success.
 Let us hope that our own blood shall continue in the land that our children md children's children to endless gen. erations shall arise to take our places and play mighty and dominant part in the world. But whether this be de nied or granted by the years we shall not see, let at least the satisfaction be ours that we have carried onward the lighted torch in our own day and gen. eration- If we do this. then, as our eyes close and we go out into the dark ness and other hands grasp the torch. It least we can say that our part has been borne well and YaliantlY.