Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-06-14
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ed rights or freedom OF contract can
stand in the way Of our cutting out
abuses from the body polite. Just as
doctrinaires of an impOssible-and in
cidentally Of highly undesirable-so-
cial revolution which, in destroying in
dividual rights, Gncluding property
rights and the family, would destroy
the two chief agents i'm the advance of
mankind, and the two chief reasons
why either the advance or the preser-
vation of mankind is worth while It
is an evil and dreadful thing to be
callous to sorrow and suffering, and
blind to our duty to do all things pos
sible for the betterment of social con-
ditions. But it is an unspeakably fool
by means so destructive that they
would leave no social conditions to
better In dealing with all these social
problems, with the intimate relations
Of the family, with wealth in private
use and business use, with labor, with
poverty, the one prime necessity is to
remember that, though hardness Of
heart is a great evil, it is no greater
an evil than softness of head.
Special Problems and Duties.
But in addition to these problems
the most intimate and important Of all
which. to a larger or less degree, affect,
all the modern nations somewhat alike,
we Of the great nations that have ex-
panded, 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 a nation which possesses the greatest
empire upon which the sun has ever
shone. | belong to a nation which is
trying, on a scale hitherto unexampled,
to work out the problems of govern
ment for, of, and by the people while
at the same time doing the interna-
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 American, both at home
and abroad, are brought into contact
with utterly alien peoples, some with
a civilization more ancient than our
own, others still in, or having but re-
Gently arisen from, the barbarism
which our people left behind years ago.
The problems that arise are of we'll
nigh inconceivable difficulty. They
cannot be solved by the foolish senti-
of stay-at- nome people, with
little patent recipes, and cut-and dried
theories of the political nursery which
have such limited applicability amid
the crash of elemental forces. Meth
er can they be solved by the raw bru-
tality 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 ther men, and
treat alien races only as subjects for
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
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 the 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 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 belongs to a given race;
he must not be given immunity in
wrong doing or permitted to
cumber the ground, or given other
privileges which would be denied to
the vicious and unfit among them
selves. On the other hand, where he
acts in n way which would entitle him
to respect and reward if he were of
our own stock, he is just as much en-
titled to that respect and reward if
he comes of another stock, even though
that other stock produces a much
Of Of hic
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 re-
ward which should always accompany
thrift, sobriety, self-control, respect
for the rights of others, and hard and
intelligent work to n given end. To
more than such just treatment no man
is entitled. and less than such treat
ment no man should receive.
international Duty.
1.-The other type of duty is the inter-
national 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 NOR
al law must be different in the two
cases, because in one case it has, and
i'm the other ii has not, the sanction OF
a civil law with force behind it. The
individual can depend for his rights
upon the courts, which themselves de-
rive their force from the police power
of the state The nation can depend
upon nothing of the kind; and, there
fore. as things are now, it is the high
est duty of the most advanced and
freest peoples to keep themselves in
such q state of readiness as to forbid
to any barbarism or despotism the
hope of arresting the progress of the
world by striking down the nations
that lead in that progress. 1t would he
foolish indeed to pay heed to the un-
wise persons who desire disarmament
., lao bap,,n nv the very ppOpleS who,