Show I right makes might ana Let us have faith that Co t I 1 In that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty I as s We understand it Lincoln II I I I I Adjusting National J Policies I w mN EK tho h ideals o of the league of 01 nations obtain sway the nations of the earth earU will bo be compelled to readjust juat their national policies if they do not have 0 io to obliterate them The basic principle of the league r is 15 an equality li y in the world which is denied at home or in- in instance tho the United States prescribes a 3 role rolo of oC conI conf con- con I f t for the subjects of foreign powers durin during their tenure of residence here herc Admittedly it draws distinction i tion of color and creed and aud cannot be relied upon ulon to 10 please the subject of restrictions We re Te da claim ID the United States as oth land of Amen Ameri- of t the tho hu Amen Amen- cans and en ever r insist in that the sovereignty f can ean people shall be respected While Whilo n admitting that all ien are created free freo and equal we nevertheless draw araV j color olor distinctions ions laws and formulating policies i L which bich will protect the interests of our own Not ot many the of with Japan because he- he years ago we were on verge ergo war cause of the gap existing b between t een the tho American all aud and the tho Japanese e on n immigration On Wo Yo settled the question iou ns nA best we Tre ce could could f formulating rm our decision in the interest of oL American Amerian institutions ons What of or the future Manifestly we have accept accepted Japan as ji n bi big brother in the pe peace ce conference and its of offspring ng the tho league of nations nations Jn Ju world orld relations wo we wore are re equal notwithstanding not th the fa fact face t that that the point of f fiew eW or on many world orId problems is 15 still as divergent as if was vas A few years ears ago ngo In the tho years to come can call we maintain ono one standard of equality at home sn and another in the world orld cour court of nations If Japan insists ingists that her people are nrc the equal of f our own she may eventually demand de de- de mand inand a consistency lacking in mi the thc present day Suppose nhe he demands that th tho tIui immigration gates to America be thrown wide open on the tho the theory Jr that the world worM i ir one one great greit brotherhood what are arc we wo going to do 1 We V Ve e know that laboring laboring- classes of the Pacific coast will register strong objections and uHl we ive also know that the K citizenship will have difficulty in adjusting itself to tha the theories of world equality But we will not not fj fight ht with Japan over ocr this question for we wo have hac a new ne c court nd in the world and our differences es will he be su sub sub- to it for decision In Ll tho course of a n few months a court with ith an tn international onal point of or view yiew wilt will rule on the qu question stion and either cither 1 the lim he American or tho the Japanese view will be indorsed If we e arc are the litt litti brothers we are arc p pictured we cannot object to a R demand O extend to lo Japan the same liberties we offer other I t aliens 3 I Perhaps this question Juc tion will never nc arise and perhaps Bothers more vex vexing vexing ng and dangerous to our sovereignty V One thing is certain however and that is t that nt a I point of view cannot ohla obtain n if the international j int nt of view CW is supreme mc If equal associations nt ions tire are ri right ht in a world league league- it naturally follows that racial discrimination discrimination dis- dis 1 crimination cannot endure within the nations Z Jf ii all nIl Then men were gOo good 1 government go would woud take care of itself but we know kno that th this s ideal belongs belons to the milI mil mil- l which has not yet rei arrived Nati Nations ns like individuals indi indi- I are nrc swayed hy by by bythe the elements of good and aud bad I ant no stable stan standard of quality of r 1 government can be guaranteed I sf r y Government o is good only so Ion long as the elements of good hold ts reins When bad influences obtain COllat control control con con- at and every nation has these powers government becomes be- be comes bad bail The len league nc of oC notions struggles for the 2 ideal which Christianity ly has tins preached for ages The rhe failure of Christianity to obtain the ideal state is is not atO lo to be bl attributed to a mt lack of or unit unity but to its failure to completely obliterate the influence of 01 evil il So it is that that the league of f nations can succeed only as it pUshes what Christianity so far has failed to attain i lithe tie ilic complete elimination of the powers po of evil r |