Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — Hostile Passions Obliterated by Temporizing [ARTICLE]

Hostile Passions Obliterated by Temporizing

By ALFRED H. FRIED,

) H. FRIED, Distinguished German Pacifist

’THE manner in which the United £ States government delayed rushing into precipitate actionin the California-Japanese controversy, the quarrel with Great Britain over the Panama canal tolls and the strife with Huerta is CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PEACE POLICY which America deliberately pursues. It has been properly recognized there that it is not the main thing to settle every conflict on the strict basis of rights, but to give conflicts such a character that they can be settled by the sensible -means of cither arbitration or compromise. The best means to attain that end is to EXCLUDE THE PASSIONS WHICH NATURALLY ARISE I’IIOM INTERNATIONAL DllFERENCES passions which are the chief menace to an amicable settlement. Hostile passions are most effectually obliterated by a policy of temporizing. The European powers traditionally cherish the fear that prestige is shattered unless the saber is rattled at every possible opportunity and an “energetic tone” is employed. THE IDEA IS PROPAGATED THAT IT IS BENEATH THE DIGNITY OF A GREAT POWER TO YIELD. WITHOUT A HISTORY AMERICA HAS MORE MODERN AND SENSIBLE CONCEPTIONS. THEY ARE PLAINLY EXPRESSED IN THE NEW PEACE TREATIES OF SECRETARY BRYAN.