The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-09-27

Reciprocity with Canada being dead and buried fOr
least another generation. We can now discuss it in
other aspects than its immediate pocket effect. That
number of people who feel the need to give their
major thought to what they shall and what they shall
put on many be excused they look sharply at today
prices of wheat of bread rather than dwell
future prosperity from todays sacrifice for high princi
PIES 1t is less easy forgive those in position to dis
the things of the flesh in terms of power rather
food and shelter But the captains of business
also human They blambooled the Canadians and Canada
must suffer for being easily fooled But all this is
now beside the mark. We discuss the reality
the point of greatest importance, underlying the re-
; ciprocity question
That reality the conflict underlying nearly every
thing do individuals nations. For all practi
purposes may regard ourselves the product of
competing forces attraction and repulsOn Every
body feels these forces in himself They make up his
daily struggle The force of attraction calls out his
feelings of harmony and helpfuness to ward his neigh
bOr and leads him into friendly relations to the world
about him. 1t involves his social and unselish qualities
Opposed this force is the force which drives MIN back
upon himself that keeps him looking to his Interest
and considering the world around only it concerns his
own physical being. We have words for these forces.
We all recognize them these forces of seishness and
the forces of atrusm. In general they are embodied
in activities. Business, the getting of material
goods for ourselves, lays stress selshness Re-
gion that taught by the founder of makes
the development of the other force, the attractive the
atristic the love force its This holds true
thouhg business may be and often is unseshy while
much selfshness passes in the name OF religion.
With nations d with individuals the inner :orces
the same though of the relative strength
There is much for the play of the attractive
forces within nations the extension of liberty and just
ice within national boundaries that the attractive force
between nations has been comparatively little deve
Oped. But this is growing Armies. navies and forts
the signs of the dominance of the repulsve force be-
tween nations, Offset in degree by the growth
of arbitration Enlightened business discovers too that
the spread of human good will beyond boundary lines is
not incompatible with material prosperity And so there
is tendency among nations toward clasped hands in
place of clashed swords One form which this tendency
takes is the removal of obstacles commercial inter-
tie method to this end method which to mutual
hepfuness and makes enlightened mutual self interest
the armament against mutual i'll will.
Now We see which force prevailed in Canada this
week. Canada decides withdraw within itself, treat
its neghbor with suspicion, to look in, not out; pro-
which shrnks the human soul and must ultimately
dwarf nations development. Nor is the effect con-
fined to Canada The growth of international good will
is everywhere checked in degree by the backward
step of Canada. For what has happened in Canada is
real reaction We talk much of prOgressves and reac
tiOnaries. What is the test? When a man move
ment reaches to include and more within its
range of benefits. that is progress When a man or
represent narrowing stationary sympathies
and benefits that reaction For what is salvation,
viewed by the philosophers and the prophets, but q
growth from the animal that looks only to ITSELF repeling
all else the whose little self is expanded indie
finitey in universal sympathy Journal.