The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-01-05

SMUGGLING.
every hot tamale there or elsewhere
which, under the name of q revolution
for the purpose of establishing a repub-
lie, might rob and pillage and destroy,
hoping to flee for shelter to the parent
republic.
When James Monroe said in 1898 that
eve should consider any attempt on the
part Of the allied powers to extend their
system to any portion Of this hemisphere
as dangerous to our peace and safety,
and that we could not view any inter-
position for the purpose of depressing
governments on this side Of the water
whose independence we had acknowl-
edged or controlling in any manner their
destiny by any European power in any
other light than as manifestation Of
an unfriendly disposition toward the
United States" he did not realize that
revolutions and assorted sizes Of repub-
lies would some day become business,
and that the time might come. too, when
the department Of state at Washington
would be kept SO busy recognizing new
and prattling republics that other and
more important business would have to
be abandoned.
In less than two years MIR. J. @
Adams, then president and MIR. Mon
roe's secretary of state when the aboyA
doctrine was composed, saw that the
spirit Of the Monroe doctrine needed
more careful calculation, and SO he said
at the time of the congress of American
powers at Panama III 1925 that Fan
agreement between all the parties rep
resented at the meeting that each will
guard by its own means against the esq
tablishment of any future European coll
ony within its borders may be found de.
sirable.
Though l may DO the warm friend Oh
high protective tariff theoretically and
q vigorous smuggler in practice, am
not bound by any law local or interna-
tional, to jerk from Jail every culprit
who may injudiciously adopt and overdo
tho above doctrine
So, while i'll a conservative way we
might swap cherry pectornl and heads
for the state Of Pennsylvania and then
declare our independence. the science of
private and personal rebellion and the
custom of producing revolutions regu-
ou L anu EIlQuyb llGSu uOG
be mt all times aided and abetted by the
pioneer republic.
Second.-You were misinformed
about my ambitions to shine as q ira
gedian when young. did do little
amateur acting and once went to q
neighboring town quietly-on rubbers,
i'll fact-to act ont Oh the stage, but
gave it up.
In the great field Of tragedy I had
girl friend ut school who was my equal
and rival in that line for several years
but at the end of that time she took to
the ballet and SO Of course outstripped
me.
Third.-No; children do not mean to
be irreverent in their remarks. They
speak freely and without the shackles
of superstition upon their tongues. A
little girl neighbor the other day went
to church for the first time, and her aunt
asked her ON her return how she enjoy
ed it.
mot at all, auntie, said she. "They
wuz vewy wude people-offul wude.
They had bweakfust and never give me
q bite"
Emeline, Goshen, d-Yes, you
may address mo as my Dear Mr.. Nye"
You understand, of course, that it can
never ripen into anything ripper than
that like your heart to heart letters,
but must caution you about cherishing
any false hopes of impairing the tissues
of my tough and obdurate heart. There
are days, too, Emeline when / do not
feel like writing i'll the way you seem to
prefer. We will be good friends, and I
will be glad ut all times to hear how you
are making it out i'll your hand to hand
contest with the world and the spelling
book. Write whenever you cannot resist
this feeling, and if cannot get time to
read your letters there is a young man
assisting me this winter who will at
tend to it.
Second. -You err from grammatical
standpoint i'll your novel, copy of
which you send me. On page $50 you
say, II was one Of six others to dine ut
this delightful place" You should