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Show HUM SUGGESTS U. S.STUDYVAR . ; ' PROBLEMS . ? By Speeial Newe Service. " LONG BEACIt N. T. June 2. -Should the cause of Imperialism, by any- ehance. win thle war, the people I of .the United Btatee we'ild find It quite iinneceesary for Rome time to come to concern themselves with foreign relatione rela-tione and with foreign policy. Thoae mature would be taken care of for I Mm them.- , 1 S Thle waa the warning sounded here 5 f ast night by President Nicholaa Mur-J Mur-J r,,, Butler of Columbia unlveralty. In Jl I opening the conference on foreign rela-j rela-j ! I tiona called by the New York academy VI of . political acience. which will con-I M tlnue "five days, with many dlatin- j 'l ll gutehed leadere of the nation taking: ' part. ! Clearly and powerfully. President I. Butler outlined the object of the conference, con-ference, which la the beginning of a nationwide campaign of education In foreign affaire. He aaid. In part: "Kor two generations It haa been j a common complaint that the people 4 , of the United States took no adequate Vjf Interest In foreign policy and were I I a thou t any but cursory knowledge of Bfntrrnatlonal politics. ("One need have but slight acquaat-snce-wlth the wiitngs and speeches of the fathers and with the records of the , early congreaaea to know that, when the-sovernment of. the .United States waseyoung. It waa the eager ambition of these who moat fully represented It ! to play a large part In the International ' life of the world, primarily with the 'view, of advancing thoae ideas and thoae' principles In which the people i of the new American republic believed I and to which they were committed. . ' . "Benjamin Franklin waa our first great. Internationalist. Alexander Hamilton, Ham-ilton, of whom Talleyrand said that hs had 'divined Europe: Thomas Jefrer. on, whose public service In Europe v was quite exceptional, aa well as Chancellor Chan-cellor Livingston. John Jay. Charles Cotesworth Hnekney, John Qulncy Adams and Henry Clay not only knew western Europe, but were knowiyby It. In making endeavor, therefore, to In-ereaeoj In-ereaeoj the interest of the, American people In foreign relationships and In M international policy we are but asking them to return to one of the finest and i soundest of national traditions. j "The conference which now assembles assem-bles to consider and discuss the International Inter-national relatione and the international , pollelea of the United Htatea la a he- , ginning and only a beginning of aj r rampaign of education and enlighten- J meat which Is to continue until there has been developed among all parta j anri-aectlnna nf our land what f ven- f urod some years ago to describe as heinternat1onal mind. "The international mind la nothing else than that habit of thinking of foreign-relations and businoaa, and that . hahU of dealing with them which regards re-gards the several nations of. the civil-Inert civil-Inert world as free and cooperating equals In aiding tha progreeo of clvll- e Ixatlon, in developing commerce and Industry and In apreading enlighten-t enlighten-t ment and cultdra throughout the world. jV" would be as Inconsistent with the International mind to attempt to steal soma other nation's territory or to do that nation an unprovoked Injury or idamago aa It would be Inconsistent ' with tha principles of ordinary mortality mor-tality to attempt to eteal some other . Individual's puree or to commit an un provoked assault upon him. I "The International mind la not consonant con-sonant with any theory of the stats which regards the state as superior to the rules and restrictions of moral a conduct or which admits tha view that to sptnej one state ta committed the hegemony of the world's affaire for tha world'n good. "When that doctrine prevatla and I'ttakee hold of the conviction and the Jlm;iKln:ilion of a great people, an lasue Is presented that cannot lie settled by vote In conference, that cannot be ar-. ar-. bitra.ted by the wisest statesmen and that cannot be determined by tha findings find-ings of ny court. "Therefore, resort must he had lo armed .force. It Is to determine this lesua that the world is now at war. "Should the cause of Imperialism, by any chance, win this war. the people of the United State, would find It f quite unneceaaary for some time to 'torn to concern themselves with foreign for-eign relations and with foreign policy. Those matters would be taken care of for them, by a power that had shown f Itself strong enough to overcome and l tn suppress the Internationally minded I men and nations. "On the other hand. If. aa we confidently con-fidently hope and believe, . tha Issue of this war Is to be favorable to the free, self governing democracies of tha wnrW, then the people of the United states Blunt address themselves with II hedoubled energy and with closest at-W at-W f tentton to thoee matters of legislation, I of administration and of general public , I policy which constitute and determine iweaiatlona cohduct. I 1 XiWs are assembled, then, to help te begia a movement which must not cease until the entire American peo- I pie are Interested In their International relationships, their international position posi-tion and their international Influence." I . M. C. A." HAS BIG TASK. ft 'will be necessary for tha T. M . C Ato raise in the neighborhood of 11.00.000 for the purpose of furnishing furnish-ing buta for each brigade sent from the JUnlted Slates to Europe, which they- expect to do, according to Infor- matlok received tn the association circles here. |