The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-07

De solved by the foolish sentimenta1itv
OF stay-at-home people, with little
patent recipes, and those cut-and-dried
theories OF the political nursery which
have such limited applicability amid
the crash of elemental forces. Neither
can they be solved by the raw bru.
tally of the men who, whether at
nome or on the rough frontier of civ.
ilization, adopt might as the only
standard Of right in dealing with other
men, and treat alien races only as
subjects for exploitation.
mo hard and fast rule can be drawn
as applying to all 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
for one race managing 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 continue to do,
in India, Egypt and the Philippines
alike. In the next place, as regards
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
worth as, a man. He must not be
sentimentally favored because he be-
longs to 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
he acts in a way which would entitle
him to respect and reward if he were
OF our own stock, he is just as much
entitled to that respect and reward if
he comes of another stock, even though
that other stock produces a much
smaller proportion sof men of his type
than does our own. This has nothing
to do with social intermingling, with
what is called social equality. 1t 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 sould always accompany thrift,
which should always accompany thrift.
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 treat
ment no man should receive.
1.-THE other type of 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 binding concern
ing 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 1t has,
and in the other it has not, the sane
ton Of a civil law with force behind
it. The individual can depend for his
rights upon the courts, which them
selves derive their force from the po-
lice power of the state. The nation
can depend upon nothing of the kind;
and therefore, as things are now, it is
the highest duty of the most advanced
and freest peoples to keep themselves
in such a state of readiness as to for
bid to any barbarism or despotism the
hope of arresting the progress of the
world gy striking down the nations
that lead in that progress. 1t would
be foolish, indeed, to pay heed to the
unwise persons who desire disarma-
ment 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 peoples who
practice, or encourage or condone, ag-
gression 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 fair
ness. The foreign policy of a great
and self-respecting country should be
conducted on exactly the same plane
of honor, of insistance upon ones own
r ghts and of respect for the rights of
others, as when brave and honorable
man is dealing with his fellows. Per-
nit me to support this statement out
of my own experience. For nearly
eight years l was head of a great ma
ton and charged especially with the
conduct of its foreign policy, and dur
ing those years / took no action with
reference to any other people on the
face of the earth that would not have
felt justified in taking as an individual
in dealing with other individuals.
II believe that we of the great civil