Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-25
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
A Ringing Justification Of
It's Principles
APR0POs OF THE GREAT CANALS.
''Paws OFF, Policy Towards
America Recommended to
European Powers.

European Powers.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HRRALD.I
WASHINGTON, February 25.-Repre-
sentative McCreary, of Kentucky, in be-
half of the majority of the members of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, has
prepared report, recommending the
adoption of the Edmunds' Panama Canal
resolution. The report says the resolu.
ton comes to the House after beingcare-
fully considered and almost unanimously
adopted by the Senate. 1t reaffirms a
public policy that is OF both national and
international Importance, public policy
that has been 80 intimately interviewer
with the treaties and teachings, doctrines
and necessities of the American people,
that it seems to have originated
in the very earliest days Of
our Republic. The joint resolution
under consideration is in accord
ance with the declarations made by
Monroe, applied to the existing condit-
ions and developments of events. After
eulogzing the Monroe doctrine, the re-
port says that the doctrine contains no
limitations and was not confined to con-
ditions existing at the time it was an
nounced. Quotations are made from the
declarations of some of our presidents
and many of our leading statesmen to
show that they have taken even a
stronger position than that maintained by
the resolution under consideration, and
objected not only to European coloniza-
ton or the extension OF European politi-
cal systems on the American
continent, but to any project
which would give q European gov
ernment new foot-hold in America.
The joint resolution under consideration,
says the report, simply declares that the
Government of the United States will
look with serious concern and disap-
proval upon any connection of any
European government with the construc-
ton or control of either the Panama
canal or the Nicaragua canal, and will
furious to the rights and interests of the
United states and as menace to their
welfare, and asks if anyone can deny the
shows that wherever governments put
/
their power, and that the aim of the.
great nations of Europe has been to take
possession Of the salient points and mar
row straits of the world for the control of
commerce and for aid in time of war. In
| the light of past events, can we doubt
| what would be the result if England or
France, or either OF the great powers of
Europe, should construct, or, by indors-
ing the bonds, control such an
important means of transit as a
8 ip canal across the isthmus
of Darien or ship canal across Central
| America? If any European Government
should construct, or assist in the con-
struction Of, great public improvement,
it can be followed by the right of de-
tending that Improvement, Columbia
and Nicaragua are both weak Republics,
| and they would soon be forced to yield,
either by treaty arrangements or conces-
sions to the governmental authority pro-
noting the enterprise. A conflict of in
terests with either would certainly occur,
and the weak power would succumb to
| the greater power and the ultimate re-
suit would be European domination
in Panama and Nicaragua, and, perhaps,
an extension of that domination to other
Republics. If this is allowed, we aban-
don the principles to which we have
clung for nearly seventy years, and SUR
render the sacred principles which our
| fathers and forefathers maintained so
successfully and so periodically.
The present, the report declares, is an
opportune and important time to an-
nounce an American policy with regard
to the Panama canal. De Lesseps has
failed in his scheme, the work has
stopped and the Government of France
has been asked to construct or
control in some way the construction of
the canal. Its control by European
government cannot but be regarded as
injurious to the rights and interests OF
| the United States, and as a menace to
our welfare. Moreover, our treaty obli-
cations and far-reaching and binding
guarantees made by the Uuited States
with the republics through which the
proposed inter-oceanic canals are to be
constructed, makes it of paramount i'm
portance to the people of the United
States that any attempt on the part Of
European government to engage in the
construction or control of these canals
should be watched with the greatest
vigilance and looked upon with serious
concern and disapproval. The time has
come for our government to define it's
position and to take stand in behalf of
our sister Republics of the Western
Hemisphere. The day of isolation of
the three Americas has passed and the
day of fraternity and friendship, inn
proved commerce and enlarged national
freedom has come. Each year brings
the United States and the Republics
south of us in closer communication, and
the day is not far distant when the three
Americas will be connected by railroads
and bound together in common hopes
and common ties.
The adoption of the resolution will
help to preserve the autonomy and ad-
vance the best interests of our sister Re-
pubhcs south of us. The needs of our
people, the dignity of our government
and the maintenance of our supremacy
on the Western Hemi phere demand it,.
Clearing House Heturns.
Boston, February PA table COM
piled from dispatches to the Post from
the managers of the leading clearing
houses of the United States, shows that
the total gross exchanges for the week
ending February 23d were $685., ,89O, ,3O5,
ansincrease of 1913 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding period last year.
He Monkeyed With Morphine.
STocKToN. February 24.-Dr. H. F..