The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-06

Lecture Well Attended.
Ex-Governor Waite cf Colorado de
livered his address on "The Monroe
Doctrine to a good-sized audience at
the theatre last night The lower por-
ton of the house and the first balcony
We're we'll filed, several ladies being
among the listeners. A goodly portion
of the attendance was people who
went merely to satisfy a curiosity, and
not because of any particular interest
in the topic. It is but simple justice
to the speaker to say that many who
attended came way disappointed. They
expected to hear a ranting discourse,
replete with bloody ibridle' express
sions and instead listened to "a master
ly address upon a principle of this
government, which, although it has
been discussed a great deal of late by
the press of the country, is not as well
understood as it might be, considering
the vital moment which obtains in con-
nection with it's application.
Governor Waite is an old man, his
head and beard being Whitened by the
frostS of time: but he stands erect and
delivers his words with a yigor and
force which might be envied by many
a younger speaker. The lecture was
read from manuscript, but was none
the less effective for that.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
After being introduced by Henry w.
Lawrence. who lost no time in pre-
sentfng the speaker to the audience,
Governor Waite read the Monroe doc
trine as enunciated by the president in
December, 1928. Commenting upon
Monroe, he said he was a man of no
particular ability as a statesman at
the time he was elected, his selection
for the office being, in the main, due
to the fact that party pickering had
ceased as it were at that time, and he
was in line for the place. But the doc
trine laid down in that message, which
made the writer immortal was a
sound principle, which, adhered to in
later days, would have meant the
accession of a great deal more terri
tory than is at present owned by the
United States.
It was a lamentable fact that many
statesmen of this country have failed
to adhere to the Monroe doctrine as
they should. The speaker cited the
settlement of the northeastern and
northwestern boundary lines as in
stances. Webster dtsregarded it in
his settlement of the first named, to
the great dissatisfaction of the people
of Maine. The surrender of Oregon
territory, which ought to have been
a portion of the possessions of this
| nation, was one of the most disgrace
full acts which blurred the pages Of
our history. Had Monroe's theory been
adhered to, a good portion of the
northwest territory would now be in
the United Sta tes. All the Sascatche-
wan, Manitoba and British Columbia
would be United States soil instead
Of belonging to England; but all were
abandoned in the interests of peace a
mistaken idea and one which has
| caused more wrong in it's application
than all the wars put together.
EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY.
European diplomacy knows no honor;
! everything is sacrificed to the acquisi-
ton of more territory. There is a
saying which adjures US to say nothing
but good of the dead. This generally
| applies in all save as to history. There
men make their own records and it is
| for future generations to discuss those
! records. Oregon was discovered and
| explored according to the manner and
methods of exploration in acquiring
| territory. Yet when it was proposed
to extend our possessions westward
! and take charge of this land, the idea
| was fought by such men as Tracy of
! New York, Wood of New York and
Breckenridge of Kentucky The ar
! gunent was used that this section Of
! country was to be independent: that
| the Rocky mountains were the western
| boundary Of America and that the land
| west would belong to a nation free
| and independent of American rule.
It was at this point in the discourse
that The speaker received his first APP
| plause. '9The acquiring of Oregon was
| fought by men from New York, New
! Jersey and Pennsylvania; men who
have legislated in favor of British in
! terests for seventy years
President Polk was the man to de-
| clare in favor of acquiring Oregon, and
| in so doing quoted the Monroe doctrine
and added to it,
! Since that time the Monroe doctrine
has been abandoned, as it were. Sew
ard did not refer to it in his diplomatic
| correspondence in relation to Mexico.
! There is perhaps a reason for THIS.
| The United States had trouble at that
time and it might not have been ad-
| visable to have courted more. But at
the close of the war Sheridan was sent
! toward the Mexican border, and France
and Austria left Maximilian to his fat
Even James G.. Blaine. that great
statesman did not refer to the Monroe
| doctrine in his diplomatic correspond
ence. 1t has been generally understood
however, that this country believes in
the general principle of America for
! Americans" This idea has been favor
| ed by all the administrations and to
this and this alone the South American
republics owe their independence.
NOT A MAN OF PEACE.
The speaker then apparently changed
| his tactics For time it appeared as
| though he was going to make another
speech and leave the Monroe doctrine
He declared that the modern anti-wa1
measures were antagonistic to the
adoption of good measures. The eman-
cipated who achieved freedom and lib
| erty by the peaceful methods are but
eyphers in the government. They are
usually densely ignorant, and are kept
So There is no man on earth so dan
gerous to the cause of human liberty
! and advancement as the Russian serf
| who believes that when his car speaks
it is the voice oif God himself. Mon
archy parades in the garb of the phi
| lanthropist 1t deplores slaughter. II
| advocates the more peaceful methods
| of slavery by controlling the mer
| through their ways of earning a living
The battle of Waterloo was the event
vr-biob +i71-1od hack tho hands 0f the