The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-12-06
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y plished. In our own land each
u /, from day, today, by some
i IN wrong which he knows or
reads, is forced to veil his face and
pray with Jefferson that just God
will not alone remember the iniquit-
les of his land. But certain standard
Of these things, we all are agreed, is
the right Of every human being.
The Awakening. q.
"The nineteenth century saw this
common standard established for
each great civilized people through
the changes begun by our revolution,
and all the long series of changes
since have brought the resolution and
determination, In every civilized land,
that there should be common
standard Of rights, of opportunities,
of protection and of freedom from
wrong and oppression.
y Wrong has been done in this move.
ment, just rights have been forgot
ten, gross injustice has been inflicted
on those who were unable to defend
themselves and patiently wait for
the providence of God to set right
the tumult OF men; but none the less,
as we look back upon the century,
we see it's advance: and you are here
and / am here in this place because
Of the hesounding recognition which
this occasion and the three that have
preceded it gives us all the common
fatherhood of God.
"But what a few lands and few
peoples have secured in common
standards Of order and justice, of
education and mutual aid is the her
itage of humanity and the right Of
man. The twentieth century is to see
this overflowing tide spread over the
world. Nor in this place, soon to be
consecrated tosthe Master of us all,
let us not forget that it was while
standing on the Judean hillside He
saw, first that the field is the world !,
and that every man and woman had
the right to receive the glad tidings
from which alone liberty and Justice
and security have come in the history
of man, and that it was the appointed
duty Of all who had this precious
possession to preach this gospel to
every creature. Every creature"
This was his command. and this IL
today the dawning obligation which
all civilized humanity feels for the
first time in the history Of man.
when this obligation is fulfilled
in matters secular as we'll as. in mat
tiers spiritual, and q common know.
.ss#asds s.1e i lt Ii y !
state. ought to give Is enjoyed BY
every creature, war will cease and
peace will come; for. when Justice
/ Is everywhere done and wrong no.
where invites interference, the
causes which have brought about
every war for the past IS years
will disappear. =.
Wars Of Aggression Over.
Since the lamentable collision be.
tween France and Germany which
sowed seeds of hate, there has been
no war due solely to aggression.
'ln this period every war in Latin
America, and there have been too
many for me to recite their dreary
annals, has bren due to gross be-
trayal Of the ordinary, rights Of gov.
ernment by one land or the other.
The causal wars in Africa and In Asia
during this period have had the same
cause. Nowhere the world around
since 1870 has there come collision
between lands we'll fgoverned. where
maintained the standard OF humanity
recognized. today by civilization.
ITO the great task of establishing
this standard the twentieth century
addressed itself when the two Hague
conferences were summoned. But 1t
is idle to suppose that arbitration can
accomplish this task while evil exists.
Wherever the world around there is
a country cursed with tyranny, where
helper, and the rights Of the many 70
order and to a share in.the universal
advance are denied, there is a spot
which is liable at any. moment when
an explosion comes to breed war as
ali undrained swamp breeds pesu.
lence. You cannot end malaria merely
with warfare on mosquitoes: the only
final cure is to drain the swamp.
.'In meeting the dawning con.
sciousness OF this great duty the
civilized world has thus far acted as
we have done in matters of sanitation
in the past-beginning our health
war when pestilence has brought
death on every street, forgetting that
pestilence comes only where evil
conditions ar allowed to tester. Arm
ed interference plays the same part
in the attempt to deal with the dis.
orders creatd by evil as the summary
and futile remedies for plague and
cholera play in the protection Of life.
These remedies, like armed inter:
ference. may check pestilence for a
season; more is needed to prevent its
return.
"Europe in the treaty Of Berlin
IN 1875 first recognized It's right TO
require just standard Of protection
of every human being in the Turkish
empire. The provisions of the treaty
fell down. broke down, because there
was no machinery for enforcing this
new conception of international re.
spohsibility for international, world
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