The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-25
A GALAXY OF REPUBLICS
M'CREARY's REPORT IN FAVOR OF
THE RDMUNDs RESOLUTION.


trine Would Be Abandonm Of
Principles Affirmed for Years--The
Good Results That Have SO Far Re-
suited from the Doctrine.
WASHINGTON, Feb. "a. 4.--Representative
McCreary of Kentucky, on behalf OF the
majority of the members on the House
committee on foreign affairs, has prepared
a report recommending tho adoption of the
Edmunds Panama canal resolution. The
report says the resolution comes to the
House after being carefully considered
and almost unanimously adopted by the
Senate 1t reaffirms public policy that Is
OF both national and international import
ance; public policy that has been 50 inti-
mately interviewer With the treaties and
| teachings, doctrines and necessities of the
American people that IL seems to have
originated in the very earliest days of our
republic.
| NO KINGS WANTED.
| When Great Britain I rmally acknowl-
edged the sovereignty and independence Vt
| the United States there was no stronger
convictions in the minds of the American
| people than that additional European col
! onization on the American continent, or
the extension Of the European political sys-
tenn to the western hemisphere, or Of Euro
pean interposition for the purp SO ot op-
pressing or controlling the de TIMES OF tha
American republic, would DO impolitic and
| detrimental TO the freedom and best inter-
ests Of our country.
| THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
| The first official expression of these CON-
victions was made by President Monroe. in
the message sent to congress in 1923, en-
| bodying what has become known as the
| Monroe doctrine The joint resolution
| under consideration, the report says, is in
| accordance with the declarations made by
Monroe, applied to existing conditions
and the development of events. The an
nouncement of the Monroe doctrine has
| embalmed President Monroe's memory in
the hearts of hberty-loving people every
| where.
ITS RESULTS
It's results have been grand and far
reaching. II secured, and has preserved,
the independence of Central and s uth
| American republics. 1t was successfully in
voked when Cuba was in peril; it enabled
| the United States to thwart the attempt of
| Great Britain to excertise dominion in Nj
caragua under the pretense OF benefiting
the Mosquito Indians; it preve ted
the establishment of Europeau
dynasty in America with Maxi
|
our government to gradually eliminatq
from the western hemisphere the d mi
nation of France and Spain and
| Russia, whose possessions at one
time almost surrounded our republic
and with the power Of destiny and the ge-
MUS, and energy, and pluck of the Amer
ican people, Great Britain may be soon sat
isfactorily eradicated from her Canadian
posses ions, and the three Americas become
a constellation of republics filed with
happy, prosperous, free and independent
people.
CONFINED TO NO TIME.
Continuing, the report says that the Mon
roe doctrine contains no limitations and
was not confined to conditions exist & al
t time it was announced. Quotations are
made from declarations OF some of our
presidents and many Of our leading states
men TO show that they have taken
even stronger position than that main
tanned by the resolution under considera-
ton, and that they objected not only to
European colonization or the extension OF
European political systems on the American
continent but to any project which would
give European government new foot.
hold in America.
| DECLARATION OF THE RESOLUTION.
The j1nt resolution under considers alton,
says the report. simply declares that the
|
look with serious concern and disap-
proval upon any connection of any Euro
pean government with tho construction or
control of either the Panama canal or the
Nicaragua canal and will regard such con-
uection or control as injurious to the rights
and interests Of the United s ates. and as
a menace to their welfare, and asks IL any
one can deny the truth Of these ropositions.
History shows that wherever governments
put their money they soon follow with their
power, and that the aim Of the great ma
tions of E1rope has b zen TO take possession
of the salient points and narrow straits of
the world for the control Of commerce and
for aid in time Of war.
RIGHT OF DEFENSE.
II any European government should con-
struct or assist in the construction of a
great public Improvement in another
country, the assertion of that power by the
COVE nment can be followed by the right OF
defending that improvement Colombia
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-
moting the enterprise. A conflict of in
terests with either would certainly occur,
and the weak power would succumb to tho
greater power, and the ultimate result
woud d be European domination in Panama
or Nicaragua, and. perhaps, the exte sion
Of the domination to the other republics.
ABANDONMENT OF PRINCIPLES.
II this is allowed, we abandon the prin-
cipes TO which we have clung for NJ arly
seventy years, AID we surrender sacred prin-
ciples which our fathers and our forefath-
| ers maintained so successfully and 70
patriotically. The present, the psport
declares, is an opportune and important
tim to announce the American policy with
regard to the Panama canal. In conclusion
The rep1rt says:
The time IS come for our government TO de.
fine Its position an TO take a stand In behalf Of
our sister republics in the western hemisphere.
The day Of the isolation Of the three Americas
has passed, and the day OF fraternity and
! friendship, improved commerce and enlarged
| commercial freedon has come.
The adoption Of the resolution will help TO
preserve the autonomy and advance the best in.
terests Of our sister republics south Of us. The
needs Of our people, the dignity Of our gov
| ernment and the maintenance OF our suprem.
acy on tho western hemisphere demand IL. And,
finally, IL Is ia the direction OF that destination
! which, when fulfilled will make tho western
| heuiRpherc a congte atiOu Of republics differ.