The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-11

Editor of the Review of Reviews
Speaks to Andianians.

Speaks to Andianians.
Special to to Indianapolis Journal
NOBLESVILLE, Ind, July 1O.-In compli-
ance with the Presidents proclamation, the
people of this city attended services of
praise and thanksgiving for the victories
that have come to the American arms. Ev-
cry church in the city had special services
and patriotic speeches were made by
score OF prominent citizens including min
listers, lawyers, judges and editors. Be-
sides the services in the churches there
was union meeting this afternoon in the
Wild Opera House, which was large. en-
thusiastic and patriotic. Short addresses
were made by DIR. j. NJ. Davies and Rev
b. A. Kemp. Hon. Charles f. Coffin of
Indianapolis, aroused the audience by his
eloquence. The principal address was de-
llvered by DIR. Albert Shaw, of New York,
editor of the Review of Reviews, who, with
his wife, is now visiting at the home Of
Judge r. r. Stephenson.
The purpose of Mr.. Shaw's remarks was
TO set forth the rapidly changing face of
the political world as witnessed within our
own times and TO discuss the position and
duty of the United States towards the out
lying nations and weaker races in view of
the altered facts. After illusions to the
ing for the opening up and civilization of
Africa and the gradual Improvement OF con-
ditions in the Turkish empire, Mr.. Shaw
took up the responsibilities of the United
States in the western hemisphere under the
Monroe doctrine. He said, in part:
The justification Of our assumption and
exercise or responsibility under the Monroe
doctrine is not to be found in any form of
Mfotas, out is to be tested in the lignt of
dacts ana results. We must, of course de-
rend and support 1t with pure motives That
is 10 say, we must look upon 1t as a nigh
calIns, exercised by us in the western
world because the moral power has been
given 10 US to further the cause of right
eousness in the affairs of men. In the
early period OF the declaration of this poll
nlze the struggles of the Mexcans and of
the South Americans for independence from
SPAN: subsequently, our attitude has pre-
vented european encroachments upon the
American republics, just as after our civil
war, we compelled the Austrians and
French to withdraw from Mexico. So far
as we concerned those European pow
ers which still retain colonial possessions
IN the western hemisphere are free to hold
lnein, Dut always subject to those ideas of
equity, peace and order that we have de-
cl2red ourselves determined to maintain
Wltnln the pale of our hemisphere. Great
Britain, for example, is welcome to retain
her nominal sovereignty over Canada. But
we should under the Monroe doctrine not
pc disposed to permit Great Britain to use
against Mexico; nor yet to create on our
northern line military frontier of n kind
mat would oblige us to maintain strong de-
lenses tnat we would not otherwise need.
Nor, again, under the Monroe doctrine. had
we any protest to make against England's
retention OF her small estate on the coast
OF South America. But it was our duty
as virtually the high court Of appeal for
western hemisphere disputes, to see that
britain S european navieS and ASatic
armies were not brought inside our sphere
OF moral Jurisdiction in order to settle the
question of a boundary line, as against
small American republic which had no navy
ana no considerable army. 1t was a duty
which we owed to ourselves and to the
western hemisphere, in view of the posi-
Britain that the Venezuela boundary line
must be determined by the only reasona BILE
means that could be used to ascertain the
respective rights of the disputants. The
acquiescence of England, after Lord Sails
bury had at first detied the Monroe doctrine
was by far the most significant event in
all the history of our beneficent work for
the peace and harmony Of the new world
up to that time.
Towards no other power have we shown
such forebearance, III view of our position
In the western hemisphere, as towards
Spain. Our influence had availed to give
independence to most of the American terri
tory once possessed by the Spanish crown
but Cuba had remained in bonds The exer-
else of colonial authority by Spain has been
worse than mediaeval-it has rivaled the
darkest days of proconsular ravage in the
later stages of the Roman empire The
neglect and misgovernment of the Spanish
oHlcialS IN cuba has been felt, not only in
the island, but throughout our hemisphere
1t has heen responsible for scores of cpl
denies of cholera and yellow fever that
have been brought to our own shores from
the plague-infested ports OF the Spanish
Antilles. And that is only one count in the
Indictment. The presence and the conduct
of Spain in Cuba have been one long pro-
longed outrage against modern civilization
IL we are to be reproached at all 1t is not
for our present uprising against the course
of the Spaniards in the West Indies but
for our failure to take action long ago
In the present undertaking we are mere
ly doing q piece of that very sort of inter-
national police work that would have to
fall to somebody's lot even If the schemes
of all the peace lovers of our time and of
past generations were put into practice.
1t is anything but easy pleasant to rem
der the world these services that require
the exercise of force but it is far more no.
bic and wholesome to face such duties and
to perform them than to shirk them under
the false and cowardly excuse that we love
peace: Let us hope that we understand
ourselves and that, indeed, it is precisely
because we love peace and because ii is our
providential duty to maintain peace that
we have entered upon the task of establish
ing permanent peace in Cuba. Even in the
minor local sense the maintenance of law
and the suppression of evil doing is not al
ways strictly peaceful task for the con-
stable. But it makes none the less for the
quietness and order of the neighborhood. AS
l have already suggested in remarking upon
the capable administrative work of Great
Britain, 1t IS no part of our mission to in
tertere in any manner with the exercise of
national sovereignty where the essential
principles of the higher order of the world $
we'll being are not dangerously diSregarded
within the realm of our extra national
surveillance If the Spaniards had admin
istered Cuba in a decent and enlightened
way. keeping the solemn pledges of reform
made twenty years ago at the end of the
ten years war, the rebellion of 1895 would
not have occurred and we should have had
no need TO interfere
Empires come and go, but the principles
of righteousness live on and they must pre-
vail. Spain once held sway for greed and
gain throughout most of the western hemi-
sphere. In q different sense and with a
wholly different kind of responsibility we
ourselves are taking SPANS old place as
overload, suzerain of the western world If
we forget justice, liberty and the higher
good and seek ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or riches our
we shall have not half her excuse. AS things
stand. Providence seems to have thrown
SPANS colonial estates into moral and DO
litical bankruptcy and TO have made the
United States a receiver. A receivership is
q trust. The Cuban-Philippine affair is an
annoying incident in the entrance upon our
work of trusteeship.
As respects the Philippines and the situa-
ton in the Pacific Mr.. Shaw took the
ground that, quite apart from the sphere
of the Monroe doctrine on the one hand and
the sphere Of the European concert on the
other. there was coming about new condi-
ton of things involving China, Japan, Ha-
wall and Australia and very many Ques-
lions and matters having to do with COM
merce and progress in the Pacific ocean
which would call for the creation OF some
new scheme OF international oversight