The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-20


titude. and in this appeal he should
have the warmest approval and the
sincerest cooperation of all of as.
Most OF us do not understand how
much significance European peoples
give TO hostile expressions OF our
press and OF prominent men, which |
they are quite inclined to regar5 as /
either inspired or at least asquieseei |
in by orr government, AMI as en-
bo1ying the views of the entire peo-
pie. They do not appreciate the
comparatively little weight i'm jaldg-
ing our ma ional attitude that ought |
to be given to editorial expressions,
or hastily prepared communications
based on current reports necessari-
ly inaccurate or biased. The lang
uage of the president, in which he
declined to be drawn into decision
or an expression of an opinion on the
complaints OF ibelligerents, was most
shat we must, show that we do not
intend to be drawn into this con-
troyersy DIN any way; that while we
are willing to assist as much as
possible in bringing about peace, our
attitude as judges cannot be inVok-
81 until we are given formal au-
horfty with a stipulated con dition
by the parties to abide the judge
ment
we are the principal nation, and
might almost say the only nation,
Of the christian world not so relat-
ed to the struggle that both sides
may really regard US as disinterest-
ed friends. 1T. is our highest duty,
and the president makes plain his
earnest appreciation of this, not to
oaorifice and destroy this great lev
erage fer successful mediation when
the opportunity arises, by i'll advised
and premature judgements upon the
merits The sensitiveness of the
struggling participants to every view.
friendly or hostile, is mosk acute.
Many of don't remember how we
felt when similarly placed.
Meantime in the sound of battle,
lpeace treaties are being made be-
tween and many of the belliger-
ents. by which we agree to a period
of ane year as a locus penitentiate be-
fore a declaration of war This
| Toes not seem a large step, but it
| is something and might prove to be
most valuable under circumstances
hat one can imagine. The present
war, however. has been used by the
oyponents of arbitration to prove
hat treaties are of no avail, and
| that il nation wishes to 60 to war
no treaty win prevent it. No one
who has advocated treaties of arbi-
ration as means of avoiding armed
conflict has ever contended that they
are an absolute insurance against
/ var. Nobody has contended that
treaties are not broken Is it a rea-
son that some are broken that we
ahould give UP making thera?
And now that we are discussing
compliance with treaties and the eff
feet of treaties of arbitration ami of
peace upon the chances of war, is It
not a good time for us to clean our
7wn house and to put ourselves In
a position where we can fulfill to the
letter every treaty that we have en-
tered into? We have made treaties
sc friendship and peace indeed
-reat.es with all the world in which
1--WE have assured to aliens, subjects
er citizens of the other party to the
/ treaty, resident within our torders.
ue process OF law in prcteSHion OF
'tfe. liberty and property. But we
now Withhold, however, from the same
hat makes the treaty the slower to
ulfGl its obligations A statue OF
q dozen lines would put 1T in the
1 power of the president to institute
'uiiofal proceedings, civil and Grim
| nal, in courts of the United States
% punish violation of the treaty
rights of aliens and enable him to
luse the civil and military executive
arm OF the government to protect
| against their threatened invasion. In
our past experience, we must realize
that mob violence committed through
/ race prejudice against aliens will new
er be punished by state authority,
and there is nothing that a high
strung people, and it is peoples now
who largely control the matter Of
war and peace, resent SO much as
the mistreatment of their fellow
tcountryman living under the flag of
a foreign government that has stip-
ulated and pledged its honor to give
them protection. The real opposi-
ton to this reform finds its source
IN the fact1onal determination of peo-
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