The morning times., 1896-02-08
ALLEN WAXED PATRIOTIC
Populist Senator Supports the
Cleveland Monroe Doctrine.
Means Self-Preservation-H Thinks
England Wants to Get Control
of the Orinoco River.

Senator Allen, the Populist of Nebraska,
addressed the eSenateyesterdayo on the subject
OF the Monroe doctrine.
He said that he would consider the doctrine
as an adjunct proposition. 1t was a doctrine
as old as government itself, as it arose out
OF it, and was based on prime necessity
of ali human government.
No nation had ever existed, or could ex
ist, without adopting and applying in its
foreign relations. the doctrine OF self-pres-
ervation, generally ascribed TO Monroe,
and known as the Monroe doctrine.
The government of the United States was
to determine the question OF the applica-
tion of the doctrine. If the invasion OF the
South American republics by Great Brit
ain would endanger the welfare or mena ce
The safety of this government in any way,
The United States should apply this doctrine
and resent her action with all the strength
and resources of a mighty nation.
The United States must be the exclusive
jC dyes OF when The doctrine is 10 be ap-
piled, aud could not Permit Great Britain
or any other foreign power 10 determine
when and-to what extent the acquisition OF
err!tory on he Western Hemisphere would
impcrl this government.
AMPLE TIME TO ACT.
When the commission appointed by the
President reported II would be ample time
for the United States To act. II IL should
then determine that the action OF Great
Britain in acquiring territory in Venezuela
would imperil this government by importing
the rights of Venezuela il would become
The duty OF this government to marshal all
the resources of its people to resist the
| threatened or actual invasion.
| If, on the other hand, we should deter
mine, after due investigation and deliber-
alton that our interests would not be i'm
| periled, it would be our duty TO abstain
from any interference with the action of
| Great Britain.
He felt confident. however, that the dis
pute over the boundary line between yenez-
uela and British Guiana was not for the
primary purpose of obtaining territory, but
for the purpose of gaining control of the
Orinoco River, which leads into one of the
richest portions of South America. Ii this
were true. ii would be our duty to rcpel the
| aggressive action of that nation.
II was TO be hoped that the people of Ven
| eZueIa would not be oyer-elated ut the atti-
tude this country had ia ken;
IL
deceived by the language used in this cham
Der. 1t was TO be hoped that their conduct
would be conservative, and that nothing
would besaid ordone by them inconsequence
of the friendly spirit manifested toward
them by this country that would lead TO
rash or inconsiderate action.
HIS PATRIOTIC CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, Mr.. Allen said:
"If, unhappily, the time shall come,
which God grant that ii may not tha Amer
ican yalor must again be displayed on the
field or battle in defense of American in
stitutions and against foreign greed and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, we may confidently ex-
pect the sons of America to march under
the flag of the free, consecrated by the
blood of hundred years ito permanent and
glorious victory.
Then for every Grant there will be q
Lee; for every Sherman a Johnston; for
every Thomas Jackson; for every Sheri-
dan Stuart, and Mason and Dixons line
will be blotted from the map OF the United
States, and true Americans. North and
South, welded by the blood of the Reyo-
luton, the war of 1912 and the war with
Mexico, renewed by the estrangement of
1861, as lovers renew and intensity their
affection by estrangement, soothed and
sustained by united and splendid Ameri-
can manhood, will give to the world a les
son in yalor that it has never known be-
fore. And when the end comes, as it surely
will come, and The storm that has rocked
us in great civil strife for renewed
American freedom shall have subsidized, and
the nation shall arise once more from the
ashes of its deadly conflict with the enc
mics of human liberty, crowned with new
glory and encircled with new halo, shall
we not place the songs of our recent civil
strife with the sacred memories or other
days?"