The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-26
Not in Harmony with His college.

Not in Harmony With His College.
Prot Won Hoist. who occupies the chair
OF International law at the University OF
Chicago. the university which has been
made rich recently by the gifts Of Mr..
Rockefeller and Miss Culver. doesn't find
his relations. very agreeable with the uni
versity since he has blossOmed out as an
Interpreter OF the Monroe doctrine. He is
the professor whom the New York World
has quoted so freely in its effort TO con-
vert the country 10 the belief that the
Presidents Venezuela boundary message
was biunder. No doubt Prof. Won Hoist
is an authority on international law, as it
is laid down in the text books, but the
Monroe doctrine Lord Salisbury says. has
not been admitted TO the code of the law
OF nations. and hence it is not to be Won
dered at that Prof Won Hoist has gone
astray in his effort to interpret that doc
trine.
President Harper and the other profess
sors Of the University of Chicago have held
a meeting and heartily approved the Presi-
dents Interpretation Of the Monroe doc
trine. They declare they want il distinctly
understood that Prof Won Hoist doesn't
speak for the university. In their view
the President was advised by men who
have made as close a study Of the Monroe
doctrine as Prof Won Hoist has-men
who are in closer touch with the Ameri-
can. people than he is.
The view that Prof. Won Hoist takes is
that the Monroe doctrine is in no way in
volved in the Venezuela boundary ques-
tion. 1t is. in fact. the view taken By Lord
Salisbury. The professor says the Monroe
doctrine refers only to the extension of
the European system on this continent by
the force Of arms.
We'll, it looks very much as if Great
Britain were extending her system in
Venezuela by force of arms. The boun-
dairy in dispute now is not the one that
was in dispute fifty years ago. or even ten
years ago. The boundary has been stead
lily advanced, year after year, as British
settlers have pushed further away from
the original boundary of British Guiana,
and has been held by British soldiers. It
doesn't make much difference whether the
territory was taken first by an army and
afterward occupied by settlers. or occu-
pied first by settlers and afterward
forcibly held by an armed force.
Many of the ablest Of the public men
of this country have studied this Vene-
zuela boundary question in its relation to
the Monroe doctrine, and have come to
the same conclusion that the President
expressed in his message. and there is no
doubt that in that message he expressed
the sentiment Of the American people.
Goodwin Smith, an eminent Englishman,
well and favorably known in this country,
in an article in the Saturday Review, says
that he has never detected in the United
States the slightest desire for territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but that there is the
strongest sentiment among the American
people "that the new world shall be free
from interference on the part of the old
world; that it shall be allowed to follow
it's own destinies, and to work out its own
civilization; that it shall not be made the
field or the highway Of European war; but
shall be left without molestation to dedi-
cate itself to peaceful industry and the
Improvement of the human lott Mr..
Smith says that in this sentiment there is
nothing of vulgar ambition or rapacity.
If Prof. Won Hoist will get away from his
text books and study the Venezuela boun-
Diary question from the American stand
| point, he win find many reasons, which
have heretofore escaped his observation,
for thinking that the Monroe doctrine is
! involved in that question.