The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-24
SHE LOVES NOT.

read the John Clark Redpath's letter
published in the Eagle Sunday morn
! ing, in which that historian sums w
British offenses against the world, and
| in which he lays bare her preienses
and hypocrisy. For centuries she mas
bullied the weak powers of earth and
| intimidated many OF the great ones
! The American republic alone has prov
/ ed superior to her wars and machina-
uions in the past Still this republic
remains a menace TO her crown and
/ empire Whenever England drives
| wolf from any sheep-fold it is that she
may eat the sheep herself.
| In the light of Redpath's letter the
| views of Britannia as officially express
ed by her premier. Lord Salisbury, VIII
be better understood. If that new
head of the British government adopts
! the views of the London press which
/ have appeared in the Eagles tele-
grapic reports from day TO day, to the
| effect that it is all political buncombe
/ upon the part Of this government he
NAV be led into taking steps which
will destroy the British empire. The
| opinions of the London and English
| provincial newspaper press merely re-
fleet the self-opiniOnated and irritating
conceit of the British people, who seem
! TO imagine that they alone are actuated
by patriotism and moral ideas in the
| conduct of political and International
affairs. 1t should surprise nobody,
therefore, that they should be slow to
realize the fact that the American ma
ton is moved by principles and policies
no less deep-rooted, and which upon
proper occasion will be no less firmly
maintained than any supposed rights
that the British empire may have ar
roeated to itself in the four quarters
1 of the globe Granting that the condi-
tons Immediately contemplated by
| President Monroe. when he wrote his
famous message TO congress, in 1873,
no longer exist, nevertheless the prin-
/ ciple then announced respecting the re-
pubIics of South America is as valid
1 today as it was seventy-four years ago.
1--WE could not view an interposition
| for the purpose of depressing them or
controlling in any other manner their
destiny (by any European power in
any other light than as a manifesto ton
of an unfriendly disposition toward the
United States"
Call it by whatever name you Will,
this is a principle of which the Ameri-
can people have never lost sight. All
attempts 10 prove the contrary rest
upon specious arguments. The prin-
ciple is applicable to any undertaking
on the part of Great Britain to expand
! her jurisdiction over a section of terri
tory in South America at the present
time as it was to the threat of Spain.
with the help of the Holy Alliance, to
re-establiSh her dominion over her
| former colonies which declared their
independence and main aimed it,"
Webster declared the maintenance of
the principle to involve the honor of
the United States, and the message of
| President Monroe to be "a bright page
in our history" The principle was
invoked TO Justify our position of hos
tility against the transfer Of Cuba by
Spain to any other European power,
and was relied upon by President Polk
in his opposition to the proposed vol
uBtary transfer by Mexico of the Yucca
tan peninsula to either England or
Spain. The provision of the Clayton
! Bulwer treaty expressly including
Great Britain from occupying or exer-
cising dominion over any part of Cen
| trail America was a distinct recognition
of the fundamental American princi-
| pie which, for the purpose of conven-
/ lent designation if for no other reason,
| has become known as the Monroe doc
| trine. The same principle lay behind
| the declaration of congress in 1864
against the monarchy set up in Mexico
/ by Macmillan with the aid of the le
gions of Napoleon III. and the facti-
tiouS Mexican empire vanished before
Il congressional joint resolution like the
snow before a breath of spring. And
!
the obsolete doctrine" as Lord Sails
bury has chosen to call it. was quite
recently demonstrated by the indefinite
relnquishment on the part of Great
Britain of her alleged prOtectorate over
the Mosquito coast.
The question urged by European pub
liciSts. whether the United States in
assuming TO guaranty the territorial
integrity of the Spanish-American re
publicS as against European powers
also mean 10 assume protet0rate over
those countries and become answer
able for their offenSes against interna-
tional law, is entirely irrelevant.
The European powers shall never be
permitted, singly or collectively. to es-
tabliSh in either of the three Americas
spheres Of influence" after the manner
adopted by them in Africa and Asia,
nor shall the governments established
4 by any American people be Subyerted,
or the territory over which these gov
ernmenrS have extended their rule be
diminished. by any state or any COM
bination of the states of Europe. The
nations Of these American continents
must be permitted 10 work out their
GeStinieS As best they can. and with
! out eXtraneOuS interference America
must be conserved TO Americans. This
is the policy announced by President