Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-06-07
RULING ALIENS


RULING ALIENS
ono 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. Hut 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
another unless the management and
control are exercised In the Interest and
FOR the benefit OF that other race. This
II 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 ito devlate from the
great rule OF righteousness which bids
US treat each man on his worth az a
man. lie must not be sentimentally
favored because he belongs to a given
race he must not be given immunity
IN wrong doing. or permitted to cum
Der the ground, or given other privi-
leges which would be denied to the
vicious and unit among ourselves. ON
the other hand. where he acts I'm n way
which would entitle him to respect and
reward II he were OF our own stock, he
Is Just as much entitled TO that respect
and reward II he comes OF another
stock. even though that other stock
n tHutn SHldlitT OF
men OF his type than does our own.
This has nothing 10 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 viii permit him or her to gain
from life the reward which should
always accompany thrift. sobriety.
sef-control, respect for the rights OF
others, and hard and Intelligent work
to a given end. To more than such
just treatment no man IL entitled. and
less than such just treatment no man
should receive
INTERNATIONAL DUTY.
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
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 IT has not.
the sanction of civil law with force
behind 1t. The Individual can depend |
for his rights upon the courts, which |
themselves derive their force from the |
police power of the state. The nation |
,an depend upon nothing of the kind, |
he highest duty OF the most advanced |
and froest peoples TO keep themselves
IA such a state OF readiness as to for
bid to any barbarism or despotism the |
nope OF arreating the progress of the
world by striking down the nations
hat lead In that progress. II would
be foolish indeed to pay heed to the
lnwlse persons who desire disarma-
nent to be begun by the very peo-
pies who. OF all others, should not be
eft helpless before any possible foe.
But we must repTobate quite as
strongly both the leaders and the
peoples who practise, or encourage or
'ondone. aggression ana iniquity by
he strong at the expense of the weak
We should tolerate lawlessness and \
wick edness neither by. tho weak nor
~ the strong; and both weak and
strong we should i'm return treat with
fairness The foreign policy
If a great and self-respecting country
hould be conducted on exactly the
anne plane of honor. OF insistence
ipon ones own rights and of respect
or the rights OF others. as when a
brave and honorable man Is dealing
With his fellows. Permit me TO sup
port this statement out OF my own !