Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-17

lisbed form of government of any American
state or to prevent the people of such state
from altering that form according to their
own will and pl. assure. The rule in qnes-
ton has but single purpose and object.
1t is that Eo European power or COM
biration of European powers shall forcibly
deprive ali American state of the right and
power Of self-government and of shaping
for itself its own political fortunes and
de stinies."
The Secretary says it is manifest that a
rule which has been openly and uniformly
acted upon by the executive branch of the
government for seventy years must have
mad the sanction of Congress. Nor he
adds, If the practical results of the rule be
sought for is the record either meager or
obscure. Its first effect was. indeed, mo-
mentous and far-reaching. 1t was the
component factor in the emancipation of
South America, and to it the Independent
states OF that region are largely Indebted
for their very existence. Since then the
most striking single achievement TO be
credited TO the rule is the evacuation of
Mexico by the French. But we are also
indebted to 1t for the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, neutralizing any interoceanIc canal
across Central America and excluding
Hreat Britain from any dominion there
IL mas been used in the case of Cuba. as
II JustifyinS the position that while the
sovereignty of Spain will be respected, the
island will not be permitted to become the
possession OF any other European power. 1t
has been influential In bringing about the
definite REIMBURSEMENT of any supposed
nrotectorate by Great Britain over the
Mosquito coast. President Polk relied upon
upon It, though perhaps enormously. to
prevent the transfer of Yucatan; Gen
Tranf in the same spirit. declared that eX-
listing dependencies Were no longer a sub
1ect OF transfer from one European power
to another, and another development is
round in the objection TO arbitration of
South American controversies by a Euro
pean power, and Secretary Bayard resisted
the enforcement of the Pelletier claim
against Hayti, declaring that Serious, in
deed. would be the consequences if Euro
nean hostile foot should, without lust
cause. tread those states in the new world
which have emancipated themselves from
European control"
American Questions for American
Decisions.
american questions, it is said are for
American decisions says Secretary Oirey
He holds that the enumerat ton made of APP
piications of the Monroe doctrine demon
strates that the Venezuelan boundary con-
troversy Is in any view within the scope
and spirit of the rule as uniformly accept
ed and acted upon. Europe. he goes on.
has set of primary interests peculiar TO
herself: America is not interested in them
ard ought not to be reXed or complicated
with them. If all Europe Were suddenly to
fly to arms over the fate of Turkey. Would
1t not be preposterous that any American
state should find itself ineXtricahly involved
in the miseres and burdens of the contest?
What have the states of America to 40
with the vast armies and fleets of Europe
and why should they be impoverished by
wars in which they have no direct
concern? The moral interests of Europe are
peculiar to her and entirely diverse from
those which peculiar to America.
Europe is with a single important eXcep-
ton committed to the monarchical prin-
cple. America is devoted to the idea that
every people has an inaIienable right of
self-government. Any European control of
our interests is necessarily both incon-
gruous and injurious, and if the forciD,e
intrusion of European powers III American
politics is to be deprecated the resistance
must come from the United States, the
only power with strength adequate to the
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of American states nv the forcihle assumn-
tion of a F,uronean mower The ,,iscbiafs
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none the less real because not immediately