The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-06-08

/ every form of weakness ana es-,..
mentality AS in war to pardon tse
| coward is To do cruel wrong 10 ths
| brave man whose life has cowar.ile..
| lslopardi2es, SO In eiyil affairs it il
| revolving to every principle OF frstice
70 give to the lazy, the ricious or
even the feble and dull-witted. a re.
ward which is really the robbery of
| What Drawer, wiser, abler men have
| earned The only cvaetive way To
| heip any man Is to help I'm ID helm
| himself; and the worst lesson to
| teach him Is that he can he narma.
hently helped at the expen of some
one else. True liberty shows itslf
q best advantage in protecting the
rights OF Others. and especially OF
mlnorlties. Privileges should not h.,
tolerated because it is to tte AL
vantage of minority, nor yet BE-.
cause 1t Is to the adyantas. ef fha
majority No doctrinaire theorie,
Of vested rights or freedom cf con
tract can stand In the way 0f out
cutting out abuses from the bos.
politics. ust az little can we afford
70 follw the docttinafies of All fa,.
possible and incidentally of A Hth3,.
ly undesirable social Fevonan
which, in destroying individual rinht,
tincludng property rie1ts) and th,
family, would destroy -4e two chief
| agents in the advance Of mankind
| and the two chief reasons why either
the advance or the preservation af
| mankind is worth while It Is an cvf
| and dreadful thing % be eallous 10
| sorrow and suffering, anil Blind 10
| our duty to do all things ross bla Ter
the hetterment Of social conditions.
But Is an nm npeakahIy foolish thing
to strive for this betterment ~
| means so destructive that hey would
ieave no social conditions % bcttcr.
In dealing with all these social preb-
lens, with the intimate relations Of
the family with wealth in private
use and busing: use, with tabor.
with poverty the one prime neces-
sity is TO Temember. that though
hardness of heart is great evil.
is no greater an evil than softacss
OF head.
But in addition to these problems
the mo t intimate and Important of
All which to larger or tess degree
affect all the modera nations some.
what aliFe, we Of the great nations
that have expanded, that are now
in complicated relations with one an
other and with alien races. have
special problems amt special drties
OF our own. You belong to natior
which posse SEES the greatestn, enr
plre upon which the sun has ever
shone ! belong to a nation which ia
trying, on scale hitherto uncXan-
Piled, to work out the problems ot
government for. Of, and by the peo-
pie, while at the same time doing
the International duty Of great
power But there are certain prob
lens 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 AMI
the American, both at home and
abroad, are brought into contact with
Utterly alien peoples. some with
utilization more ancient than orr
wn, others still in, or having recent
y arise FROM, the barbarian which
,ur people left behind years ago,
Ihe problems that arise are veil,
Ugh inconceiyable difficrty they
anuot hp solved hy --e foolish SEN
mentality Of sjay-athout people. u
fith little patent recipes, ami those
theories of the political
irsery which have such limited ap.
ljcability amid the crash Of elemeu-
ri forces. Neither can taey be sol.
ed by the raw brutality OF the men
ho. whether at home or on the
ough frontier OF civilization. adort
hight as the only standard Of right
J dealing with other men. and treat
lien races only as subjects for cv-
loitaton.
mo hard and fast rule can he
rawn as applying 10 All alien races.
ecause they differ from ono an-
ther far more widely than sons sf
aem differ from Us, But there are
ne or two rules which must not be
In the long run, there can
{ not justification for one race man
ging or controlling another unles
he management and control are ex.
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