Speech #600145567

One declaration of this character. coming from a leader who "said what he meant and meant what he said.". would ring around the world and give the Republic more character among nations than it has enjoyed in many years. . In my opinion. the most humiliating shame that ever overshadowed our fair name as a nation is the obsequious senility characterizing the diplomacy of the party in power in the pending Japanese crisis. By this abortive and cowardly method of solving this dangerous problem. not only Is the sacred right of local selfgovernment being sacrificed to appease the supposed wrath of the crosseyed Mongolian. but the contemptuous scorn and ridicule of all nations are being invoked upon this once proud and patriotic Republic. But we are told to forbear and deal gently with this increasing horde scourging the Pacific coast. because they do not understand the machinery of our dual system of government. but it is their business to know. Of this fact they must take judicial knowledge. It is not for us to teach international law to the despotisms of the earth. nor should it be our policy to muzzle the conscience of a sister State and force her to tremble in the presence of racial degeneracy. This is the opportune time for the exemplification of the patriotic courage of the fathers of the Republicfor that lofty conception of true Americanism that rises above party spirit. or the entangling environments of sordid wealth. A bold. conservative. but vigorous. state paper. notifying the Mongolian