The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1910-06-09

the preservation OF mankind 10 worth
while II is evil and dreadful thing
blind ia our duty to do all things possible
for the betterment Of social conditions
But it is an unspeskably foolish thing to
strive for this betterment by means 80
destructive that they would leave NO So
cial conditions to better. In dealing With
all these social problems. with the tnti-
mate relations OF the family. with wealth
in private use and business use. with u.
Dor. with poverty. the one prime neces-
sty II to remember that. though hard
ness OF heart II . great evil. II 10 -
greater an evil than softneas Of head.
But in addition to these problems the
most intimate and important OF all
which to larger OF less degree AFFECT all
the modern nations somewhat alike. sc
OF 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 . nation which pos
sesses the greatest empire upon which the
sun has ever shone. I belong to q nation
which 10 trying. on . scale hitherto unex.
anpled. to work out the problems OF gov
eminent for. of. and by the people. while
at the same time doing the international
duty Of great power. But there are
certain problems which both Of US have
to solve. and as TO which our standards
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 civilization more an
Gent than our own. others still in. OF
having but recently arisen from. the bar
barisn which our people left behind ages
ago. The problems that arise are OF we'll
nigh inconceivable dificuity They cannot
be solved by the foolish sentimentality OF
stay at-hone 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 b
solved by the raw brutality Of the men
who whether At home or on the rough
frontier Of civilization. adopt might a.
the only standard OF right in dealing with
other men. and treat alien races only e.
subjects for exploitation.
No hard and fast rule can be drawn a.
applying TO all alien races, because they
differ from one another far more wids-
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
can be no Qualification for one race man
aging or controlling another unless the
management and control are exercised In
other race. This II what our peoples
have in tho main done. and must con-
tinue In the future in even greater de-
gree to do. In India, Egypt. and the Phil.
tppines alike. In the next place, a. re-
CARDS every race. everywhere. at home
or abroad. We cannot afford to deviats
from the great rule Of Righteousness
which bids US treat each man on his
worth a. man. He must not he ssnti-
mentally favored because he belongs to
. given race; he must not b given i'm
munity In wrong-doing. or permitted to
cumber the ground. or given other pEivi.
leges which would be denied to the
vicious and UNIT among themselves. On
the other hand, where he acts In . way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward II he were of our own stock, he
IL Just az much entitled to that respect
and reward II no comes of another
stock. even though that other stock pro-
duces a much smaller proportion of men
OF his type than does our own. This has
nothing to do with social intermln Cling,
with what II called social equality. Il
has to do merely with the question Of do
ing to each man and each woman that
elementary Justice which will permit him
= ayh, her f. E:in ilep VS. Us rsxs,sa
sobriety. self-controi. respect for the
gent work to a given end. To more than
such Just treatment no man ID entitled,
and less than such just treatment no man
should receive.
Duty Of Nation to Nation.
The other type OF duty IL the interna-
tional duty. the duty owed by one ma
ton to another. hold that the laws Of
morality which should govern individu-
ais 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 b
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one case It has. and in the other 1t has
not, the sanction Of . civil Law with force
behind It, The individual can depend for
his rights upon the courts. which them.
selves derive their force from the police
power Of the state. The nation can de-
pend upon nothing Of the kind: and
therefore. AZ things are now. II IL the
highest duty Of the most advanced ana
freest peoples to keep themselves in such
state Of readiness a. to forbid to any
barbarism or despotism the hope of ar
resting the progress of the world by stri-
king down the nations that lead in that
progress. 1t would be foolish indeed to
pay heed to the unwise persons who de-
sire disarmament to be begun by the
very peoples who. of all Others should
not be left helpless before any possible
foe. But We must reprobate quite a.
strongly both the leaders and the peoples
who practise. or encourage or condone.
y
the expense Of the weak. We should toll
crate lawlessness and wickedness neither
by the weak nor by the strong: and both
weak and strong we should In return
treat with scrupulous fairness The for
eign policy Of q great and self-respectinR
country should be conducted on exactly
the same plane Of honor. Of insistencs
upon ones own rights and Of respect for
the rights Of others. a. when q brave and
honorable man 10 dealing with his fell
lows Permit me to support this state
meot out OF my own experience. For
nearly eight years I was the head Of q
great nation and charged especially with
the conduct Of its foreign policy; and
during those years 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
dealing with other Individuals.
I believe that we Of the great civilized
nations Of today have . right to feel that
long careers of achievement lie before
our several countries. To each Of US 10
vouchsafed the honorable privilege Of do
ing his part. however small. In that work.
Let US strive hardly for success, even II
by SO doing we risk failure, spurnine
the poorer souls of small endeavor who