The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-01-10

! ED. REGISTER:-I have carefully
read both the articles i'm the REGIS
TER taking issue with the President
in the stand he has taken and the in
deportation he has given to the Mon
roe doctrine, as it is called; and must
say that for one [ most fatty disagree
with the sentiments there advanced.
The article says "he stretched the
Monroe doctrine away beyond the
original intention" 1t has been one
of the cardinal principles of that doc
trine that no European power should
acquire any more territory on this
continent than they already had with
out the consent of the people occupy
ing said country, and it looks to us as
though that was pretty sound pOsit
ion to take, and if we read the Presi-
dents message Understandings that
is where he plants his foot and there
is no misunderstanding about the
plant either, and we have been
thanking goodness ever since that he
had the sand and patriotism to do it,
and that Congress without dissent
said here Mr.. President is the money
and the authority to find out what
is the right boundary line and then
you just stand by it, we are with you
in sustaining the doctrine that the
nations of Europe must not NEEDLE
with the territory of the nations on
this continent without their consent
The article says: an effect he de-
clares war and then sets about to find
out whether there is any grounds for
it.u
Now we did not understand it that
way. "The dispute says the Presi-
dent "has reached such a stage as to
make it now incumbent upon the
United States TO determine what is
the right boundary line, and to do it in
a careful and judicious way and then
stand by it."
That means of course that if Eng
land attempts to take possession of
territory on the Venezuela side of
said line, she viii run up against
Uncle Sam. If it must come to that for
one we say Amen.
England has refused flat-foOted to
arbitrate this matter, and what else
could the United states do than the |
President has recommended. Eng |
land has always been bully, she has
brOw-beatcn and full-dOzed every |
nation of the earth that she could,
she has been an oppressor of other
nations all her life, whenever she
could. For one we are glad that our
own beloved country is about to say
to her thus far and no farther, or
this side of the water.
But says the article ''we be of one
blood" neither will back down and
we shall have war. War is dread
full thing and few know it better than
the writer hereof, but worse things
can come to nations than war. What
noble things can come to great ma
tion situated as we are than to see
that none of one sister nation in this
continent should be despoiled of its
right without its consent land that
just the ground Mr.. Cleveland takes)
even if we did have to fight England
to prevent it? 1t is just as right and
noble for nation to stand up for the
rights of the weak as it for an indi-
vidual. But there won't be any war.
England don't fight nations that are
her equals.
Some of the papers of Europe say it
was political move on the part of
the President For one we don't be-
lieve it, but whether it was or not it
has shown to the nations of the
old world that they must go mighty
slow in acquiring territory on this
and that is something they
never have been made to understand
before.
we nave never been much given to
for Cleveland but when
we read his message we just thought
we must, so we just went out behind
the barn and had pretty good yell.
But when congress without dissent
passed the bill to carry out the Presi-
dents recommendations just whoop-
ed and yelled and didn't care if ali
the world heard US; and hope all the
old world did.
And now MIR. Editor, we hope the
will find place in the
REGISTER for we believe you are en-
tirely wrong in your position.
l.. b. PEARSON.
First published Dec. q. 'G5)