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which to a larger or TESS degree anect all
the modern nations somewhat ahke' We
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 or our
own. You belong to a nation Which pos
sesses the greatest empire upon Wmch the
sun has ever shone. belong to nation
which Is trying, on scale hitherto uheA-
ampled, to work out the problems OF gov
eminent for. Of, and by the people, while
at the same time doing the international
duty of a great power. But there are
certain problems which both OF us nave
to solve and as to which our STANDARDS
should be the same. The Enghshman, the
man Of the British isles, in his various
homes across the seas. and the Amerl-
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 sun H. or
having but recently arisen from the bar
barism which our people left behind ages
ago The problems that arise are OF we'll
nigh inconceivable difficulty. They cannot
be solved by the foolish sentimentallty or
stay-at-home people with little patent
recipes and those cutand-dried theories
OF the political nursery which have such
limited applicability amid the crash or
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 allen races only as
subjects for exploitation.
No hard and fast rule can be drawn as
applying to all alien races because they
differ from one another far more wide
" than some of them differ from us. But
there are one or two rules which must
ha bn r1ln there
can be no Justification for one race man
aging or controlling another unless the
manag cement 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-
tinue in the future in even greater de-
gree to do. in India Egypt. and the Phil
ippines alike. In the next place, as re-
CARDS 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 senti-
mentally favored because he belongs to
a given race; he must not be given I'm
m1nity in wrong-doing, or permitted to
cumber the ground. or given other privi-
leges which would be denied to the
vicious and unfit among themselves. 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 pro-
duces a much smaller proportion Of men
| Of his type than does our own. This has
| nothing to do with social intermingling.
with what is called social equality. II
| has 10 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,
sahriety. self-Control. respect for the
rights of others. and hard and inteli-
! Gent work to a given end To more than
such just treatment no man Is entitled
and less thar such just treatment no man
should receive