The Forrest City times., 1910-06-10

But IL Is an unspe akably foolish thing to strive for this betterment by means so destructive that they would leave no so- cial conditions Co better. In dealing with all these social problems. with the inti- mate relations of the family, with wealth In private use and business use with la- oer with poverty. the enc prime neces- sity is to remember that though hard
 ness or heart IS 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 a larger or less degree infect 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 sPeclaI problems and special duties of our own You belong to a nation which pos
 sesses the greatest empire upon which the sun mas ever shone. l belong to d nation which Is trying, on a scale hitherto unex- ahpIed, 10 work out the problems of gov ernment for of. and by the people. whils
 al the same time doing the international uhty or 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 Ameri- can. both at home and abroad are brought into contact with utterly alien peoples, some with a civilization more an cient than our own. others still in or having but recently arisen from. the bar paflsm which our people left behind ages ago. The problems that arise are of we'll nigh 1nconceivable difficulty. They cannot De solved by the foolish sentmentality of
 stay=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 alien races only as subjects for exploitation.
 No hard and fast rule can be drawn as applying to all alieF races because they dltter from one another far more wide " than some of them differ from us But there are one or two rules which must not De forgotten. In the long run. there can be no justification for one race man
 aging or controlling another unless the 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 unue in the future In even greater de- gree 10 do. in India, Egypt. and the Phil lpT Ines alike. In the next place. as re- gafds every race, everywhere, at home | or abroad, We cannot afford to deviate from the great rule of righteousness | which bids us treat each man on his 1 worth as a man. He must not be senti- l mentally favored because he belongs to
 given race; he must not be given irn- | mnnltY in wrong-dong, or permitted to l eumeer the ground, or given other privi- | leges which would be denied to the
 vicious and unfit among themselves. or | 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 much entitled to that respect l and reward if he comes of another
 stock. even though that other stock pro-
 duces much smaller proportion of men or his type than does our own This has | nothing 10 do with social intermingling 1 with what is called social equality Ii l 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
 sohriety, self-control. respect for the | rights of others. and hard and intelli. | gent work to given end. To more than | such just treatment no man Is entitled and less than such just treatment no man
 should receive
 Duty Of Nation to Nation.
 The other type of duty is the interna. | uonal duty. the duty owed by one na. |
 morality which should govern individu
 als in their dealings one with the other | are just as binding concerning nations in | their dealings one with the other The l application of the moral law must be
 different in the two cases because fir | one case it has. and in the other 1t hal. | not, the sanction of civil law with force l behind it5 The individual can depend fo, | his rights upon the courts which them. | selves derive their force from the police l power of the state The nation can de. l pend upon nothing of the kind. and | therefore as things now 1t Is the | highest duty of the most advanced and | freest peoples to keep themselves in such
 state of readiness as to forbid to any l barbarism or despotism the hope of ar 1 resting the progress of the world by stri | king down the nations that lead in that | progress II would be foolish indeed tc | pay heed to the unwise persons who de. l sire disarmament to be begun by th. | very peoples who. of all others should
 not be left helpless before any possibl. l foe But we must reprobate quite as | strongly both the leaders and the peoples | who practise, or encourage or condUne aggression and iniquity by the strong at
 the expense of the weak We should toll
 crate lawlessness and wick ed ness neither by the weak nor by the strong. and both 1 weak and strong we should in return treat with scrupulous fairness The for ] clBI ppHCF or d great and SeIt-TeEpeCtiu8 1 country should be conducted on exactly
 the same plane of honor. of insstenes
 upon ones own rights and of respect for | the rights of others. as when a brave and 1 honorable man is dealing with his fel- l lows Permit me 10 support this state
 ment out of my own experience For nearly eight years l the head of a l great nation and charged especially with the conduct of It's foreign policy; and during those years I 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 i dealing with other individuals.
 l I believe that we of the great civilized 1 nations of today have right to feel that ] long careers of achievement lie before our several countries To each Of us i. vouchsafed the honorable privilege of do- i ing his part. however small. in that work l Let US strive hardly for success. even if by so doing We risk failure spurning 2 the poorer souls of small endeavor who l know neither failure nor success. Let us hope that our own blood shall continue l Tn the land. that our children and chill 1 dren's children to endless generations shall arise to take our places and play a
 mighty and dominant part in the world But whether this be denied or granted by l the wears We shall not see let al los al