The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-22

EASING up, even unasked, this British
eulana and Venezuelan boundary dis
pute' the environments present a case OF
,eMtanSilng alliance" such as might exist
ccelWeen cyclone and Virginia rail
fence Viewed in any light, this going
OUT OF our way to take up the fight of a
foreign nation, is trampling Washing
Ton warning beneath our feet; on this
point let US be candid, and justify IL we
can. Has our situation changed. and
so as to render the doctrine of non-inter-
ference abortive? The main ground up
on which the Monroe doctrine rested
was, that the extension of monarchiai
government on this continent would en-
aanger the safety and peace Of the United
States AS England refused to join the
1oiy Aillance, France also. the fear of
GOOD Mr. Monroe might have been as well
ued up IN some old ladys night-cap and
put TO sleep-"Holy Alliance!'-hoiy fid-
ule-stlcks; God was not it; it collapsed
aIter slckly existence of IL or Is years,
and as it's only progeny popped out in
Monroe's message in 1923, the bantling
TOOK no effects on the death of it's an
cestor Let us look at Monroe's exact
reason for his "doctrine;" he says; with
the existing colonies or dependencies of
any european power we have not inter-
Iefed, and shall not interfere; but with
the governments that have declared
their independence and maintained it,
ana whose independence we have, on
acknowledged, we could not view an in.
terposltlon for Expressing them, or con-
ironing In any other manner their des-
tlny, by any European power, in any
other light as a manifestation of an un-
friendly disposition towards the United
STATES. Here is the Monroe doctrine
complete, with this addition: eve owe II
10 candor and to the amicable relations
existing between the United States and
the allied powers. to declare that we
should consider any attempt on their
part to extend their system to any por-
ton of this hemisphere as dangerous to
our peace and safety" The most careless
reader will see that Mr.. Monroe was only
looking out for the United States; he has
no word of opposition to the implied
unreal or the Alliance to wipe out the
South American Republics in the inter-
est OF Spain and Monarchies except as
the states might be imperilled if con-
surlmated if we were provided ior-safe
-ro1nb-proof,-the Devil might care for
the rest,-not that our sympathy like that
extended by the Friend of Humanity"
to CaEning's knife Grinder" should not
go out on occasion; but 1t would become
reouctlo ad absurdam for the United
states to go "a colonelling' every time
Spai1. England, or some other monarchy,
boxed the ears of cantankerous and in
solcnt half-civilized community never at
peace with itself or any body else We
do not look upon the Monroe Doctrine"
as IN any sense antagonizing Washing
tons advice; if, in 1923, monarchial pro-
pagandism endangered our Republic,
such is not the case in 1896; the condf-
tions are changed; jngoism Is mistaken
Tor patriotfsm; cunning for diplomacy;
professions for honesty; fraud for states
manship; the Venezuelan muddle is
mares nest to an insipid and disgraced
administration; Republican endorsement
is a party trick to placate Irish hatred
OF England and out-jingo Democrats; a
farce will witness the close, and as the
curtain drops the performers will stand
snickering in. each others faces. AL
ready an ancient and fsh-ll<e smell"
has gathered about Cleveland's commits
sioners This peripatetic body, consist
ing of A. D. White, D. J. Brewer, F. r.
Coudert, D. c. Gilman and Richard Hal
vey, should lose no time in inscrbing up
on a joint mortuary monument for future
use, an inscription which will perpetuate
the remembrance of the high office spec
tally ordained for them Alack and alas!
the lessons Of our childhood are forgot
ten in maturer years, and the repenrant
howls of poor old dog Tray heedlessly
break on the wind.
We have before us a condensed state
ment of the construction put upon the
Monroe Doctrine" contemporaneous
with its PRONUNCIATION, and from the pen
of its paternal ancestor, John Il. Adams,
as also from Jefferson Clay, Webster,
VI
and House reports. Mr.. Adams, in a
special message to congress 18th March,
1SIG, in referring to this doctrine dis
tinctly confines it as rule applicable to
each government, and that each govern.
mert in respect of it's "own SOIL" and by
its separate action, was expected to pre-
ven" colonial Judgments or establish
ment Of European jurisdiction upon its
own soil.' Each for itself, and by it's
own means. should guard it's own terri
Their, that the United States, so far
from extending gratuitous protection to
the territories of other states, would not
commit itself either to give or receive
aid III any such enterprise, but that each
should use its own means whiting it's
own borders for its own exemption from
European colonial intrusion" Mr..
Adams views here presented, have never
been controverted by any department of
the government until G.. Cleveland 4 Co.,
crawled out from beneath the Ions paw,
and commenced pulling the tail-feathers
OF our Eagle just to get up the diversion
of d scream SO soon as the game Is
Jagged, it will be found that the "ex-
hangnan of Erie county" has secured
carrior bird instead Of the majestic
Eagle. His Venezuelan raid has made
him the butt of ridicule; he ranges up
alongside of the late Jimmy Polk who
also took a pull at Joves bird, and
bravely talked about ''54-40 or plight"
Bill Chandler, snickering in his sleeve,
covered with war-paint and dragging
out OF an empty treasury an hundred
millions of war-money, and also supple
mented with the Brewer Commission We
do not but that the Democrats AMI
Republicans can pass under the wire in
the presidential race, neck and neck. Ger
tain it is, the combination will get up
to amuse the people.-the
pleased with rattle and
tickle0 with q straw
A word more. 1t is said that 900
Rritons are residents on the disputed ter
ritCry involved in this controversy: COM
pared to the natives, at is greatly to
their credit that they are Enslishmen.-
For they might have been Pat-i-go-ni-
ans, or Bra-Zil-i-ans, or perhaps Ven-ez-
u clans. But in spite of all temptations.
To belong to other nations. They re-
main Eng lish-men.' and will so remain
ezuela, the destiny of that Republic is
and shrewd, and backed by British trade
of that country in the interest Of Great
Britain. Abundantly replenished from
he parent stock and by natural accre-
TONS a unit in design and purpose, in
a generation Of time the original breed
will have become slaves to the domin-
ant race. 1t will be India repeated, Egypt
Intensified and the United States dupli-
Gated. The East India Co., with Give
and Hastings, stole the former country
for britain; Egypt borrowed British
gold. and her creditor foreclosad her
on the home of the eeIlah and
IS in possession; the United States is a