The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-02-12

IUT the eFoiulloH; Oh II peTIHdHehlly
peaceful civilization.
This policy, in connection with the
development of a proper land SYSTEM.
would open the door TO the sons of
peace, and the bipeds would give
place to the onward march of a
Christian civilization, as the Indians
did in the history of our nation.
1t is the belief of the writer that
it is as Impossible TO regenerate Mex
leo, with the bull-fght still left In her
civilization, as it was for President
Lincoln to save the Union with slav-
cry in it. Both Holy Writ and his.
tory show that the wrath of God is
upon both of those institutions.
Now the question arises: viii
President Wilson prove equal to the
occasion? Has God raised him up
and anointed him for this great
work? So.
While the Republican party should
be organized and ready for the situa-
ton, if President Wilson should fail
us, yet let us hope that he will see
and rise TO the grandeur of his op-
portunity; and in basing this hope,
we should remember that interven-
ton is not an act of war against
nation: but IL is an interposiiton in
behalf OF the people who are with
out adequate. national government. in
the exercise of the presidents inIer-
national police power. at lnterna-
tiOnal common law; as in the case of
President McKinley's Intervention In
the Boxer insurrectlon in China,
MI tnh uyit n ro ir n
of war by congress.
President Mckinley was an able
ju"ist and saw that International law
is the law OF the space between ma
tons, primarily the sea, but includ.
ing all space on land, where there is
no adequate national: government.
This was the theory, also, Of the
Roosevelt administration. $780,.
President Wilson, therefore, has
abundant precedent and the undoubt-
ed right to intervene in Mexico, with.
out a congressional declaration of
war, whenever he finds that state Of
local anarchy or chronic misrnle has
developed there; and he should do
so, or else modify the modern con
ception of the Monroe Doctrine, Suf-
fciently to allow foreign nations 10
intervene and protect their interests;
an alternative, of course, not to be
thought of as long as we are ma
ton.
If we cannot now see that the bull
fighting civilization in Mexico has
eliminated in local anarchy, it is be-
cause there is so much anarchy at
home, in the shape of mobs and
pugilistic assemblies that we have
lost sight Of the true definition of the
term. We must remember that an
archy Is like the thistle on the farm;
il must be eradicated or it will take
the farm. And, Of course, it does no
good to kill the thistles in your neigh
boris field unless you kill them in
your own field.
With the object lesson before us,
of the ruin involved in chronic bull
fighting civilization, let us fee the
wrath in store for us, if our pugilstic
civilization should become chronic
and go TO seed.
(2) The Panama Canal. The stat
ute passed at the close of the admin
istration of President Taft, discrimin-
ating in the matter of tolls in favor of
American vessels, should ne prompt
ly repealed, or be declared by the
president to be null and void-a vio-
lation of the international common
law principle. OF the equality Of con-
merce on the seattle worlds high
way. There is no discrimination in
the Suez Canal.
The world will never submit to any
other theory; as equality is equity,
and equity is OF the essence of divin-
ity.
If we persist in the theory that
American commerce Is a privileged
class on the sea, there is no possible
escape from worldwide war; In
which our nation would be crushed
like an egg.shell. For God would be
against us, as He has been with us
in all our past wars, which were for
the equality and brotherhood of man.
In conclusion, the railway question
will always be important in orr poll
tics. The president in his last mes
sage submits to congress the ques.
ton as 10 whether the owner of stock
in several competing corporations
should not be prohibited from voting
his stock in all save one.
In making this suggestion, 1t seems
TO the writer the president transcend
ed his constitutional prerogative,
which limits him TO the power of
making recommendations to congress-
If he had seen proper to recommend
that policy and thereby committed
himself 10 it, no one could complain
that he had exceeded his jurisdiction.
The objection to such policy Is
that ii would be so annihllative of
the quality OF property. that the fed.
eral supreme court would be com
PEELED to pronounce It revolutionary,
unless the judicial conscience in that
body should degenerate into mere
political conscience, which gets all IL
can. regardless Of the principle In.
volVed.
II seems to the writer the better
plan would be 10 levy a tax OF ten
per cent on all proxies not issued to
a federal bureau OF corporate con-
troll. This. in connection with ma
tional inheritance tax OF fifty per cent
on all estates in excess OF twenty mil
lion dollars. payable in kind, so far
as II consists In stocks or real es-
tate, would ultimately place the fed
eral government in control OF at least
all important corporations.
,thn nnwpr nf tayati0n ie tho III