The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-25

disadvantages and have certain pecul.
lar difficulties Of our own 10 face.
Advantages Exceed Old Worlds
Nevertheless also because of thos,
very facts, we enjoy compensating nd.
vantagcs which more than outWeigf
the disadvantages. Prominent amt NJ
these advantages is the fact that We
have an almost free hand for falr
dealing in american International re-
latiors. being fettered by compare
lively few OF the wide inequalities o.
culture and civilization, and the bitter
memories of history. which of neces-
sity prevent any community o. feeling
among races which stand at the OPP
posite poles Of human existence:
whereas in the old world. in the hugo
continental mass composed of Europe.
Asia and Africa, there exists many
vast and Topulous regions sundered
! from one another by the WELL nigh
impossible CULTS which lie between
| civilization ana barbarism, and be-
tween barbarism and pure savagery.
Hero in America the civilized ma %
| lions do not have 10 fear huge military
| barbarisms. Neither do We have 10
! face The presence Of vast tracts OF
| country pooplcd by savaEes, which the
civilized nations must bring under
control, and which, if NOT possessed
hy one efficient and civilized nation,
merely become the property Of some
other efficient and civilized nation.
Under such conditions 1t is practically
impossible TO reach a general working
agreement Of any kind about intorna-
tional conduct; for the communities
European. Asiatic and Afrlcan--stand
IN planes Of culture and conduct which
are hopeessly far apart.
No Cuffs Between Peoples.
In the two Americas, on the con-
trarN, there are no such wide divis-
ions. With negligible exceptions. all
tho important nations possess com
mon heritage Of Occidental civilization
ana. IS compared with the other diver
gencies i'm the old world, they possess
substantially similar governmental
forms and religious and cultural ideas.
Again, with negligible exceptions.
there are nc great waste spaces ten.
antcd ONLY by savages, which are
open 70 settlement by. and are tho
potential causca of quarrel among. the
civilized powerg; the remaining tracts
or land open to settlement and dcvel.
opmcnt--and nowhere arc they larger
2r NOSE inviting than here in Brazil
arc substantially all within the we'll
aottled boundaries OF fully established
nations.
From Canada and Alaska 20 pata-
conn. from Quebec, Montreal Gnd
Winnipeg 10 Rio Janciro. Montevidoo. /
mcnos Ayrcs and Valparaiso, the
leading countries and cities are held.
and have been built up by. peoples.
differing in important respects each
from the others, it is true. hut sun.
dcrod ny No such CULTS rs those which
lie between tho countries aud capitals
az Asia and Africa and those Of su- I
Tope--.indccd, not oven by such CULTS
rs separate certain of the European
countries from one another.
In consequence, there is a far bot
tor chance here than elsewhere to
work out some scheme of common in
tcrnational conduct which shall guar |
Hntoc 10 every nation freedom from |
molcstation by others so long "a ite !
own skirts arc free from wrong do |
ing, and so long as it does not itself |
SIM; into . condition Of mere inlpo- |
tent anarchy. There are two sides to !
consider First. our common attitude .
towards the old world powers; and. |
second. our relations among ourselves.
Less than century and n half |
have passed since the entire western |
was held in real or uular
possession ~ European nations; at
that time the fate and ownership Of
the American colonies depended on tho
outcome Of wars between nations
across the seas. AS late rs century
ago this condition still obtained as re-
cards al American countries eyeept
my own. and that was loss than half
It's present size, and of not tcnth its
orcson. strength.
Americas for Americans.
Ninety years ago the countries of
latin America had likewise achieved
Independence; hut il was still q pre-
'orious independence. and there WIS
'tilt likelihood that some one OF the
,rcat military European nations would
o. establish Itself as an American
lower At tho expense Of one or more
Il tho struggling infant Municipalities
1t that time the United States was
'till the only American nation able To-
ecHuc any hearing whatever in Eu-
opc, and oven the United Stateg
ould secure only q scant and impa-
lent hearing. Vow thcrc are several
Nmori,nn nations prominent among
rhich is our own, who can secure
cspoctful hearing anywhere in the
.orld. These american nations. such
= Brazil ana tho United States, stand
n an absolute footing of equality. one III
ardinal doctrine on which We al
grcc is that America shall not hc
roatcd ~ offering ground FOR fresh
or territorial aggran lize-
lcnt for any old world power. This
doctrine Cf vital concern 10 all
he nations Of America; for Il would | |
q calamity 10 all ii any great mill ,
lry nation Of the old world obtained ,
footh"ld here; such an event would, I
l the end. force uS all under nonoit,. .