The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-10-05
THE MONROE pocTRiNE

VIII Do Firmly Upheld BY the Admins
trsticn Against Engf4nd in yene susls
and No Further TrinlnG with the ,rime-
Honcred Principle VIII be Toferstsd-
Tho b Beiiigernnfs. Also, VIII b
Recognised.
CHICAGO. Sept. 2a-The Evening
Press prints the following from its
Washington correspondent: "As sure
as you see the sun shining out there.
this government viii enforce the Mon
roe doctrine in the contention with
Great Britain over Venezuela"
Thus declared q democratic leader
to-day. whose name is known through
out the length and breadth Of the
land. who has received distinctions at
the presidents hands that indicate the
confidence and favor with which he is
regarded and who is close enough to
the councils Of his party to speak with
authority.
THE situation Is getting more
strained every day. Indeed. affairs
IN rapidly approaching q crisis. If
England refuses to accede to the re-
quest of the United States for arbitra-
ton. the Monroe doctrine will be up
held and American interests protected
by sterner methods.
"You can put 1t down as positive
and settled that the administration
will tolerate no trifling with the time
honored principle. But just how soon
the clash Is not so easy to predict. but
this governments patience is already
soreiy tried, and It cannot brook much
further delay with equanimity.
"Doyou give this as your own views
or the determination of the admins.
tration?'
81 would not express myself in this
way without knowing whereof I
speak. OF course. I cannot say for
whom I speak. You can rest assured,
however, that / am telling You NO
lies"
sWhat will the administration do
about recognizing the fighting Gu
bans?"
1.-THE belligerency of the Cubans
will be recognized if they maintain
their present position sixty days
That is as certain as what I have just
said about the trouble in V~enezuela.
And congress will move faster than
the administration in extending this
recognition. Just because the papers
are setting up q clamor to recognize
the insurgents right away we cannot
proceed forthwith and fire a cannon
and run up a flag. 1t must be ACCOM-
plished with the consideration and
dignity that become so imp ortant a
proceeding. But 1 repeat-the Cubans
will be recognized as ~belligerents-
''Then you do not think the presi-
dent is lacking in aggressiveness in his
foreign policy?
why should 1? Why should any
one? What has there been in his two
terms to give any one but his partisan
critics cause for distressing his Amer
icanism?
THE president is a deliberate and
cautious man. But he usually comes
out all right, doesn't he? He COM
PEELED payment of the Mora claim. did
he not, after presidents and secretaries
of the lingo type wrestled with it in
vain? No, the president is not want
ing in patriotic fervor. but he does
not believe in becoming involved with
foreign powers before we are in a po-
sition to enforce our ultimatums with
a navy of respectable proportions and
Notifications and coast defenses that
will shield our cities from foreign
guns. He does not want British war
ships sailing into New York harbor
unopposed and Smelling the city"
ssT- 1r-er,-no ~ kL4- -o1,1- kIA
naval feet has been enlarged with
modern war ships and more are build
ing. and the construction of coast de-
lenses has made appreciable progress
and is still going on. WHAT is this for.
if not to assert and prove our rights at
home and reassert the doctrine touch
ing other American property? 1 tell
you before Cleveland has completed his
term there will be no cause to doubt
his aggression in standing by the flag.
This is hardly in accord with much
that is said and printed about Cleve-
lands attitude toward foreign powers"
"You must understand that it is easy
for people to forget. When Postmas-
ter-General Don Dickinson made his
splendid speech before the Loyal
Legion last spring. an address breath
ing an intense patriotism, and when
after reviewing Great Britain's con-
tinued aggressions and efforts to-
ward domination over territory
from which she is debarred
by the Monroe doctrine, he
counseled such warltke precautions as
would give force to our demands for
fair play, his remarks were construed
in many sources as being SO divergent
from the views of the president that
they amounted to an attack upon the
administration. Anyone who has fol-
lowed the events OF the past ten years
and observed the multiplied evidences
OF Mr.. Dickinson's loyalty to Cleve-
land, ought to know that he would
never contemplate such a thing as at
lacking the administration
more than that, those who con-
strued his speech in that way ought to
be able to remember far enough back
to the presidents messages to congress
in which he repeatedly advised the
strengthening Of our navy and fortifi-
cations, to inspire that Difference by
other powers the compelling of which
was the basic statement of Diclsinson's
speech.
$50, rather than being at variance
with the administration, Nh. Dickin-
SON sinrIv nrorla;nad n nropora.for