Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-03-19
With Scissors and Paste
LEST WE FORGET.
(From Washington's Farewell
Address,


I'm the execution of such a plan
nothing is more essential than that
permanent. inveterate antipathies
against particular nations and pas
sionate attachments for others should
be excluded. and that, in place of
them. Just and amicable feelings to-
ward all should be cultivated. The
nation which INDUCES toward another
| an habitual hatred or an habituai
! fondness is in some degree a slave.
rs Is a slave to its animosity or 70
| its affection, either of which is sur
ficient to lead it astray from its duty
and It's interest. Antipathy in one
nation against another disposes each
more readily to offer insult and IN
jury, to lay hold of slight causes or
umtrage, and to be naughty and IN
traetable when accidental or trifllng
occasions of dispute occur Hence
frequent collisions, obstinate, enVeh-
omed and bloody coptests The ma
ton prompted by ill-will and resent
ment sometimes impels to war the
government, contrary TO the best car
culations OF policy. The government
sometimes participates in the national
propensity and adopts through pas
sion what reason would reject AT
other times it makes the animosity OF
the nation subservient to projects OF
hostility instigated by pride, ambition
aud other sinister and pernicious mo-
tives. The peace often, sometimes
perhaps the liberty, of nations has
been the victim.
80 likewise a passionate attach
ment of one nation for another pro-
duces a variety of evils. sympathy
for the favorite nation, facilitating
the illusion of an imaginary common
interest in cases where no real com
mon interest exists, and infusing into
one the enmities of the other, betrays
the former into a participation in the
quarrels and wars of the latter, with
out adequate inducement or justifi-
cation
1T leads also to concessions TO the
fayorite nation of privileges denied to
others. which is apt doubly to injure
the nation making the concessions;
by unnecessarily parting with what
ought to have been retained; and by
exciting jealousy. ill-wll and dis
position to retaliate in the parties
from whom equal privileges are with
held; and ii gives to ambitious, cor
rupted or deluded citizens (who de-
vote themselves to the favorite ma
tom facility to betray or sacrifice
the interests of their own country,
without odium. sometimes even with
popularity-gilding with the appear
ances of a Virtuous sense of obliga-
ton. a commendable Difference for
public opinion or laudable zeal for
public good, the base of foolish COM
planes of ambition, corruption or in
CAS- avenues to foreign influence IN
ways, such attachments
are particularly alarming to the truly
and independent patriot.
How many opportunities do they at
ford to tamper with domestic fac
tons, TO practise the arts of seduc-
ton, to mislead public opinion, to in
fluence or awe the public councils!
Such an attachment of small or
weak toward a great and powerful
nation dooms the former to be the
satellite of the latter.
against the insidious wiles of for
eign influence. / eonjure you to be-
lieve me, fellow citizens, the jealousy
of a free people ought to be con- |
stantly awake, since history and eX-
perence prove that foreign influence |
is one of the most baneful foes OF |
republican government But that |
jealousy TO be useful, must be i'm /
partial; else it becomes the instrp- /
ment of the very influence to be |
avoided, instead of defense against |
It, Excessive partially for one
foreign nation and excessive |
dislike of another cause those |
whom they actuate to see dan
ger only on one side and serve to I
veil and even second the arts of in /
fluence on the other Real patriots, |
VINO may resist the intrigues of the !
favorite, are liable to become sus- /
pected and odious while its tools and |
dupes usurp the applause and conf
ience of the people, to surrender
their interests"