AMERICAN PROBLEMS by WILLIAM E.BORAH 1924

102 WILLIAM E. BORAH
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deliberations to forces we can not control and
leave our people to the mercy of powers which
may be wholly at variance with our conception
of duty? I may be willing to help my neighbor,
though he be improvident or unfortunate,
but I do not necessarily want him for a business
partner.
I may be willing to give liberally
of my means, of my council and advice, even of
my strength or blood, to protect his family
from attack or injustice, but I do not want him
placed in a position where he may decide for
me when and how I shall act or to what extent
I shall make sacrifice. I do not want this Republic,
its intelligence, and its patriotism, its
free people and its institutions to go into partnership
with and to give control of the partnership
to those, many of whom have no conception
of our civilization and no true insight
into our destiny. What we want is what Roosevelt
taught and urged—a free, untrammeled
Nation, imbued anew and inspired again with
the national spirit. Not isolation but freedom
to do as our own people think wise and just;
not isolation but simply the unembarrassed
and unentangled freedom of a great Nation to
determine for itself and in its own way where
duty lies and where wisdom calls. There is
not a supreme council possible of creation or