Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29


has learned to look ON tnls
source, wherever til" e OIL tho
country is in any de- ncerned, MT.
Taft discusses full measures ana
policies that hav. 20 the present,
made for peace borrower. outlines
n program of raj justice through
whose workin war will become as
obsolete as :; = now its own ancient
and outcast aims and methods. the
first of these essays reviews the mon.
roe doctrine as the supreme Instrument
that. for nearly 100 years. has main
tanned an. unbroken peace for the
United States. A part of this discus
sion comes by way of answer to the
school of critics and agitators who pro-
TESS to see in every stable institution.
whether this establishment be social.
or religious. or political-the deadening
effects of senility or the 1mpresnaoie
bulwark of unrighteousness Mr.. iaIt
shows when and how the monroe ooc-
trine originated, pointing out that 1t is
merely a policy, and not law; that
its purpose is protective; that under
. this protection the splendid repuolics
of the western hemisphere nave peen
left to develop free of foreisn 'nseF..
flexible policy-rigid under exlgenee.
but elastic in cases where the need TOT
protection has passed. He shows. TOO,
that the claims OF arrogance set
for Observation-Disclosures and over-loro-
ship of the western world. fall away IN
the face of the history of this country
under the Monroe doctrine, and that
the good character of the doctrine is
fully established by a .century OF enec-
tive service. The second essay points
the conflict between federal and state
jurisdictions in relation to the status
promise of protection which one or
another of the states may fail to keep
and fail quite in accordance with Its
owl statutes. Another demonstration
that chain is as weak as its weakest
link. or that a great and seemingly
perfect railroad is as dangerous as
some careless act of an ignorant work
man can make it. Mr.. Taft cites TINS
conflict in jurisdictions as a serious
menace to national peace. The third
essay does away with the claim OF the
United States Senate that 1t has no
power to consent to general, aroitra-
ton treaties, claim calculated to
block this country in any effort to
share in the movement for expanding
the field of arbitration. The last dis
cussion reviews history in its various
experiments in federation, marking the
growth of these in nature and scope.
Upon this basis of history and facing
The plain promise OF political evolution
Mr.. Taft erects the outlines OF 9 world
wide political organization for the
settlement of international differences
system of judicial arbitration.
No one is better qualified to discuss
This matter than William Howard Tart.
AS President of the United States he
peace through the fundamentally Of
arbitration. An open vision. broad
gauge judicial mind, a complete seizure
o. the principles underlying this move
rrcntt perfect freedom from any mo-
ton of self-exaltation, a patriotism
that counts the world as Its country
pIl these powers and qualities comoin -
Z" give profound meaning and high
worth TO this study.
CHILDREN IN BONDAGE. BY Edwin
Markham. Benjamin B. Lindsey and
George Creei An introduction by
child labor committee. New YORK:
Hearst's International Library Com
pany-
This is the dramatic and poignant
story of child labor, The urge of ne
cessity, or rapacity, is ingenious In
evasion and deception. So 1T appears
that, in spite of the vigilance and de-
termined effort of all manner of child
welfare agencies, the children are still
working in field and factory. in mine
and mill And this volume is COM
plete and careful presentation OF the
problem of child labor. 1t Is, also, an
lna-ysis of its causes, a Enumeration
Of lis crimes, a description of its cure.
over and above this 1t is tremendous
appeal TO all the people. an arousi ~ g
wi y dozen veal tragedies OF the
u!io world are set down here with
.rres slihle effect by Edward Markham
rider such headings as THE Crimson
ID .ur Cotton" "spinners in the Dark
Thes Blight on the Easter Lilies,
Little Slaves of the Lamp" wherein
The Industries that employ children ant
ment are scathingly arraigned. rhi.
is book to warm the cold facts o,
report and statistic. II is human ane
suffering. 1t will appeal to every
will set a-going the great machine
that can effectually free the children
As force in the work of doing ava!
with child labor 1t ought to prov
Irresistible.
THE MEXICAN PEOPLE, Their Strus
gle for Freedom. BY L Gutierre
eet ha1a R afaees Of etc. and aax
photographs, New York; Double
day. Page Co. Washington
Woodward & Lothrop.
Two marked characteristics set thi
particular history or Mexico sharpl!
OF from the common current hood o
writings on this urgently importan
subject. The first of these springs on
Of the fact that the authors are ma
tive Mexicans. saturated by tradition
ancestry. birth. education. sympath.
and experience. with the feelings AM
outlook of the class Of Mexicans L
which they belong and whose caus
they SO fervently espouse. The sec
"ond peculiar stamp of the study lies Il
its consistent adherence to the propo
sition that the perennial turbulence
Mexico is not due to temperamenta
fickleness on the part OF the mass o
Mexicsns themselves, not to an In
stinctive hatred toward control OF an
sort, but rather is 1t a protest-no'
forebodingly covered and now hercel
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the exploltatlo
that Mexico has suffered at the hand
of the master class since the comln
of the Spaniard. These authors con
tend that this year-long struggle
against economic unrighteousnesi
that it is a struggle for the restoration
of the land that has been wreste
from them by the various overlords o
Mexico, that 1t is, at bottom. an agra
rian movement like that which aros
among the peasants of England in tn
fourteenth century. Whether this his
tory is having to do with the colonis
days of Mexico or with those of tn
empire. whether with domestic mat
tiers or with foreign, its chief purpos
is to set down in true perspective tn
SORROWS of this exploited country. TIL
war with Texas-and again that wit
the United States-Was no moro tina
the working out of q plot concocte
by the master class in Mexico and tn
cotton planters of the south. The Who'll
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