Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-06-15

WO HHtcS d NShNA~As
There are one or two rules which
must not be forgotten. In the long
run, there can be no justification for
one race managing or controlling an
other unless the management and
control are exercised ia the interest
and for the benefit OF that other
race. This is what our people have
in the main done, and must continue
to do, in India. Egypt, and the Phil
ippines alike. In the next place. as
regards every race, everywhere. at
home or abroad. we cannot afford to
deyiate from the great rule of right
eousness which bids us treat eacn
man on his worth as a man. He
must not be given immunity in
in wrong-6oing, or permitted to cum
Der the ground. or given other priv
ileges which would be denied to the
vicious and unfit among ourselves.
On the other hand. where he acts in
a way which would entitle him to
respect ard reward if he were Of
our own stock. he Is Just as mucd
entitled to that respect and reward
if he comes of another stock, even
though thar other stock produces
much smaller proportion of men of
his type than does our own
"The other type IF duty is the in
ternational duty the DUTY owed by
one nation to another | hold that
the laws of morality which should
govern individuals in their dealings
one with the other are just as bind
ing concerning nations in their deal
ings one with the other The appli-
cations of the moral law must be
different in the two cases, because
in one case ii has, and in the other
it has not. the sanction OF civil
law with force behind it. The indi-
yidual can depend for his rights upon
the courts. which themselves derive
Their force from the police power of
the state. The nation can depend
upon nothing of the kind and there
fore, as things are now, it is the
highest duty of the most advanced
and freest people to keep themselves
in such state of readiness as 10
forbid to any barbarism or depotism
the hope of arresting the progress or
the world by striking down the ma
tions that lead in that progress. 1t
would be foolish indeed TO pay heed
to the unwise persons who desire
disarmament to be begun BY the very
people who. of all others, should not
be left helpless before any possible
foe. But We must reprobate quite as
strongly both the leaders and the
people who practice, or encourage
or condone, aggression and iniquity
by the strong at the expense of the
weak. We should tolerate 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
policy of a great and self-respecting
country should be conducted on ex-
actly the same plane of honor, OF
insistenee upon ones own rights and
of respect for the rights of others,
as when 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 was the head of a great ma
ton and charged especially with the
conduct ofeits foreign policy; and
during those years took no action
with reference to any other people
on the face of the earth that I would
not have felt justified in taking as
an individual in dealing with other
individuals.