The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-06-08

" kindness; of acceptance of response
bility, one for each and each for all;
and at the same time a spirit as re-
mote as the poles from everys form OF /
weakness and SentimentalIty. AS in
war to pardon the coward is TO do cruel
wrong 10 the brave man whose life his
cowardice Jeopardizes. so in civil af-
fairs IT is revolving to every principle |
OK Justice to give to the lazy the
witted, reward which is really the /
robbery OF what drawer, wiser. ADLER
men have earned. The only effective
way to help any man is to help him i
to help himself; and the worst lesson /
TO teach him is that he can be perma- /
nently helped at the expense OF some l
one else. True liberty shows itself to |
best advantage I'm projecting the rights i
Of others, and especially OF minorities.
privilege should not be tolerated be- ]
cause IL is TO the Advantage of a mi 4
nority, nor yet because II is 10 the |
advantage of a majority. No doctrinaire |
theories of vested rights or freedom
OF contract can stand in the way of
our cutting out abuses from the body
polite. Just as little can we afford
TO follow the doctrinaires OF an i'm
possible-and incidentally of a highly
undeSirable-sOcial revolution which. in I
destroying Individual rights 0nciuding
property rights and the family, would
destroy the two chief agents in the
advance Of mankind. and the two chief
reasons why either the advance or the
preservation of mankind is worth
thing TO be callous to sorrow and suf-
fering. and blind to our duty to do all
things possible for the betterment of
social conditions But Il is an un-
speakably foolish thing to strive for
this betterment by means so destruc-
tive that they would leave no social
all these social problems, with the inti-
mate relations of the family with
wealth in private use and business use,
with labor, with poverty. the one prime
necessity is to rcrncrn her that oh
hardness of heart is a great evil. IL is
no greater an evil than softness of
head.
Special Duties 60 Perform.
But in addition to these problems.
the most intimate and important OF ali
which 10 larger or less degree affect
all the modern nations sOmew hat alike
we OF the great nations that have ek-
panoed, 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 possesses the great
est empire upon which the sun has
ever shone- L belong 20 a nation which
/ Is trying, on a scale hitherto unexnm-
pied, TO work out the problems of gov
/ eminent for, OF and by the people
while at the same time doing the inter
! national duty OF a great power. But
/ there are certain problems which botl,
/ OF US have to solve. and as 10 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 hut re-
Gently arisen from. the barbarism which
our people left behind years ago. The
problems that arise are .,f wei. nigh in
conceivable difficulty. They caHnOs h
solved by the foolish sentfn,Snta.tr- Of
+ "A VA f-nn rr~fF al
recipes, and those CUT and dried -Feories
OF the political nursery which lave
such limited applicability amid the
crash OF elemental forces. Neither can
they be solved by the raw bI utality
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
exploitation.
Philippines as an Example.
NO hard and fast rule can be drawn
as applying 10 ali alien races, because
they differ from one another far more
widely than some of them differ from
US But there are one or two rules
which must not be forgotten In the
long run, there can be no Justification
Tor one race managing or controlling
8nOther unless the management and
control are exercised in the interest
and for the benefit Of that other race
rms is what our peoples have in the
main done, and must continue to do. in
INDIA, Egypt and the Philippines alike
IN the next place, as regards every
we cannot afford to deviate from the
great rule of righteousness which bids
US treat each man on his worth as
man He must not be sentimentalIy
favored because he belongs 10 a given
race. he must not be given immunity
IN wrongdoing, or permitted to cumber
the ground. or given other privileges
which would be denied to the vicious
and unfit among ourselves. On the
other hand where ne acts in way
reward IL he were of our own stock, he
is just as much entitled to that respect
and reward II he comes of another
produces a much smaller proportion OF
men of his type than does our own.
This has nothing to do with social in
termingling, with what is called social
equality. IL has to do merely with the
question OF doing 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-controi,
/ respect for the rights Of others. and
/ hard and intelligent work to a given
/ end To more than such just treat
/ ment no man IS entitled. and less than
such just treatment no man should re-
ceive-
Duty of Nations
THE other type of duty Is the inter
national duty, the duty owed by one
of morality which should govern indi-
viduals in their dealings one with the
other are 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 IL has, and in the
/ other case has not. the sanction of
I civil law with force behind II. The in
dividual 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 therefore. as
| things are now, IL is the highest duty
| Of the most advanced and freest peo-
pies to keep themselves IN such a state
| of readiness as to forbid to any harbar-
| ism or despotism the hope OF arresting
| the progress OF the world by striking
| down the nations that lead in that
progress IL would be foolish indeed to
pay heed to the unwise persons who de-
| Sire disarma menl TO be begun by the