Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-06-09

while. II IL an evil ana . dreadful thing
to be callous to sorrow and suffering. and
blind to our duty to do all things possible
for the betterment Of social conditions.
But 1t Is an unspeakably foolish thin to
strive for this betterment by means so
destructive that they would leave M So
cial conditions to better. In dealing with
all these social problems. with the init
mate relations of the family. with wealth
In private use and business use. with la
Dor. with poverty. the one prime neces-
sity Is to remember that, though hard
ness OF heart Is a great evil. 1t Is no
greater an evil than softness OF head.
But in addition to these problems the
most Intimate and important OF all
which to n larger or less degree AFFECT all
the modern nations somewhat alike. We
or the great nations that have expanded.
that are now In complicated relations with
one another and with alien races. have
special problems and special duties Of our
own. You belong to a nation which pos
sesses the greatest empire upon which the
sun has ever shone. l belong to n nation
which Is trying. on n scale hitherto unex-
ampled, to work out the problems Of gov
eminent for. OF. and by the people. whils
at the same time doing the International
duty OF q 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. tho
man OF the British isles. In his various
homes across the seas. and the Ameri-
can. both at homo and abroad, are
brought into contact with utterly alien
peoples, some with n civilization more an
clcnt than our own. others still In, or
having but recently arisen from. the bar
barism which our people left behind ages
ago. The problems that arise are Of we'll
nigh inconceivable difficulty. They cannot
be solved by the foolish sentimentality of
s~tay-at-home people. with little patent
recipes. and those cut-and-dried theories
or the political nursery which have such
limited applicability amid the crash of
elemental forces. Neither can they be
solved by the raw brutality OF the men
who. whether at home or on the rough
frontier OF civilization. adopt might as
the only standard of right In dealing with
other men. and treat allen races only AZ
subjects for exploitation.
No hard and fast rule can be drawn as
applying to all alien races. because they
differ from one another far more wide
ly than some OF them differ from us. But
there are one or two rules which must
not be forgotten. In the long run. there
cen he no justification for one race man
aging or controlling another unless tho
management and control are exercised In
the Interest and for the benefit of that
other race. This is what our peoples
have In the main done, and must con-
unne In the future In wen greater de-
Crpe IN do In India Mount .,l ,t>o Dltt
iprincs alike. In the next place. as re-
CARDS every race. everywhere, at home
or abroad, we canno afford to deviate
from the great rule of righteousness
which bids us treat each man on his
worth AS a man. He must not he senti-
mentally favored because he belongs to
a given race: he must not be given i'm
munity In wrong-doing or permitted to
cumhcr the ground. or given other privi-
lcGes which would be denied to the
vicious and unfit among themselves. On
the other hand. where no acts In q way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward II he were If our own stock, he
IL Just as much entitled to that respect
and reward II he comes OF another
stock. even though tina other stock pro-
dnces n much smaller proportion OF men
OF his type than does our own. This has
nothing to do witt social intermingling
with what IL called social equality. II
has to do merely with the question OF do
Ing TO each man and each woman that
elementary Justice which will permit him
or her to gain from life the reward
which should always accompany thrift,
sobriety. self-control. respect for the
rights or others. and hard md intclli-
gent work to n given end. To more than
such Just treatment no man IL entitled.
and less than such Just treatment no man
should receive.
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The other type OF duty IL the interna-
tional duty, tho duty owed by one ma
ton to another. I hold that the laws OF
morality which should govern individu-
ais In their dealings one with the other
arc Just an binding concerning nations in
their dealings ono with the other. Tho
application OF the moral law must be
different in the two cases. because in