The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-12


The long pending resolution which has
brought out so much criticism of the
secretary of agriculture was passed
without division. The measure was
amended SO as to provide that the
purchase and distribution of seeds shall
proceed as heretofore.
Mr.. Blanchard Dem) of Louisiana,
was then recognized for a speech on
the Monroe doctrine.
Senator Blanchard strongly com
mended the president for the reasser-
ton, on an enlarged basis, of the Mon
roe doctrine, and advocated that it be
given the sanction of legislative en-
dorsement. He said the time had come
| for such a declaration by congress-
broad, bold, comprehensive, not made
in anger or menacing, but firm. The
| senator's speech, while bold and firm,
was in good temper and evinced a
spirit of kindred friendship and peace
! towards which he termed Our s1is-At-
| laIrti.: cousins
AMERICAN POLICY. ri
Among other things he said; 1.-The
! United States is expected to stand
aloof from entangling alliances with
! Europeans. We are to have, it seems,
nothing to do with European, Ash
! attic, African or Australian concerns.
! We have heretofore steadily adhered
/ TO this line Of policy.
Shut out of participation in Euro
pean policies, neither asked or being
| Invited to take part in the same, are
we too to be deprived of the right to
! prescribe and dominate an American
| policy? On this point the American
! people are sensitive, and it is not con-
J fined to any section or class of our
! people 1t pervades all alike; if leaps
over party lines and rises above party
! feeling. On the Atlantic seaboard, in
the northeast, the caution of con-
servatism of capital and the fears of
! business disturbance may for a mo-
! ment stay this feeling but those who
count upon this for the display of ex-
| IRENE forbearance on our part, may
| find themselves
GREATLY IN ERROR.
"Go ask the people of the great west
and those of the revivified and rapidly
recuperating south and they will tell
you that the time has come for the
broadening of the scope of the Mon
roe doctrine and for a much more On
larged application of it. Seventy three
years ago, when this doctrine was first
proclaimed, the population Of the
United States was a little more than
we have multiplied to 100000 900. From
meagre resources, we have plowed and
planted deIved, mined and commenced
and manufactured, builded and con-
structed our way to an enormous ag-
gregate wealth. We do not have to
make a demonstration on land or sea
to proclaim our power or mark our
readiness for war.
This republic is not to act the big
brother to each turbulent or revolu-
tionary republic or island in the west
ern hemisphere and conVulSe the world
about matters of far less Importance
than many that arise in our own coun-
try. But it does behoove US to proclaim
a distinctive American pohcy-a broad,
comprehensive policy, that includes
within its scope the three Americas,
North, Central and South
AT THE HEAD.
"The United States stands at the
head of the American sisterhood OF
states She has an interest at once
direct and vital in the settlement OF
every question that can arise affecting
any portion of the American continent
or any one of the free states on the
continent, Indeed, she has an inter-
est in the settlement of every national
or international question that can rise
in the Western Hemisphere. Nor does
this position on our part initiate
against the right of any government
to protect it's citizens in any part of
America, or to enforce payment OF
debts, or to claim indemnity for wrongs.
The Monroe doctrine, even in its pres
ent proposed enlarged scope, is not to
be extended to interfere with the bust
ness relations between the American
republics and Europe.
eve would not interfere if war
broke out and such countries were
overrun by foreign troops But, nei
Their as the result of such war, nor as
the result of negotiations or treaty
can any European power acquire adj
ditional territory in America.
war waged by England or any other
European power, with South or Cen
trail American countries on any ju-t
ground, is no concern of ours. Only
such war must not be one of con-
quest and the war ended. foreign troops
must, within a reasonable time, evac-
uate.
The Central and South American
states desiring our aid to prevent ac-'
QUESTION by conquest of any of their
territory by stronger powers, cannot
object if we insist that neither shall
they dispose of their territory to for
eign powers by treaty or other nego-
tiations 1t is Door rule that will
not work both ways"
ALLEN REPLIES
Mr. Allen (Pop.) Nebraska, replied
briefly to Mr. Vests criticisms on the
secretary of agriculture. Mr.. Allen
commended that any unusual allowance
of seeds made by the secretary to Ne
braska was due to the drought there |
g Mr. Wolcott, of Colorado, interrupted
with the statement that the rain belt
of Colorado had suffered from This !