others, we must require that justice be done to us. With us a treaty of
peace means peace, and a treaty of amity means amity. We have made
great contributions to the settlement of contentious differences in
both Europe and Asia. But there is a very definite point beyond which
we can not go. We can only help those who help themselves. Mindful of
these limitations, the one great duty that stands out requires us to
use our enormous powers to trim the balance of the world.

While we can look with a great deal of pleasure upon what we have done
abroad, we must remember that our continued success in that direction
depends upon what we do at home. Since its very outset, it has been
found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political
parties. That system would not have survived from generation to
generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best
instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will.
It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is
enough to know that nothing better has been devised. No one would deny
that there should be full and free expression and an opportunity for
independence of action within the party. There is no salvation in a
narrow and bigoted partisanship. But if there is to be responsible
party government, the party label must be something more than a mere
device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same
party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and
exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate
with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the
party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made
at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.
Common honesty and good faith with the people who support a party at
the polls require that party, when it enters office, to assume the
control of that portion of the Government to which it has been elected.