The San Francisco call., 1898-12-02
THE MONROE DOCTRINE DEAD.

and official abandonment of the Monroe doc Urine by the United States. It IS the consummatoI of an act of aggression against European state concluded outside of our own hemisphere Having broken out of our own hemisphere, we can no onge oppose the breaking into it by any power tha has the strength The tone of the Continental press is unrlstakabe. Those nations have the experenct that equips them for judgment and when their pres: declares that our past republican policy is obsolete and that we have entered into the conflicts of the world as imperial military power, they speak the truth.
 Mr. Henry Adams in his history of the United States says:
 Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of na- tionality and embraced in his view the whole future of man. That the United States should become na- ton like France, England or Russia should conquer the world like Rome. develop typical race like China, was no part of his scheme He wished to be- gin new Hoping for time when the worlds ruling interests should to be local and should become universal; when questions of boundary and of nationality should become insignificant when armies and navies should be reduced to the work oi police and politics should consist only in non-nter- vention he set himself the task of governing with this Golden Age in view. Few men have dared to legislate though eternal peace were at hand in world torn by and convulsons and drowned in blood, but this is what Jefferson aspred to do. Even in such dangers he believed that Anne cans might safely set an example which the Christian world should be led by interest to respect, and length to initiate As he conceived a true American policy, war was blunder, unnecessary risk; and even ii of robbery and aggression the United States he believed, had only to stand the defensive in or der to obtain justice in the end He would not con sent to build up a nationality merely to create more navies and armies to perpetuae the crimes and follies of Europe the central government at Wash ington should not in his view, be permitted to in- dulge in the miserable ambitions that had made the Old World hell and frustrated the hopes of hu- manity,"
 It must be admitted that the spirit of this Jefer- sonian view largely controlled our national policy It was violated by the Ostend manifesto which was plain affirmation of the brutal doctrine that might makes right But that manifesto was not influential in controlling policy. Now, however, a change has come. American sentiment makes no conceal ment of our purpose to take Cuba, against the pro tests of its people and without giving them adequate opportunity to prove a self-governng ca pacity The lines written in the treaty of Paris by which we take the Philippines also against the wish and in the face of the protest of nne-tenths of their people We have taken Hawaii while o5 per cent of the people mourned in their darkened homes
 reference to the speeches in the Senate and ar ticles in the American press illumnates the enormity of this policy. The country told in the Senate that Cuba had already government, with fiscal establishment deriving revenue by taxation that 1t had executive, legislative and judicial government coordinate and in the exercise of all its functions; that 1t had an organized public school system in operation, using textbooks printed by the govern inent, and, Tn fine, that the Cuban government was equipped with and operating all the machinery of civilized authority for the protection of personal and property rights This statement of its condition was one of the moving factors in bringing declara- ton of war against Spain, in which we solemnly ab- jured territorial aggrandizement and repudated all rtention of conquest
 Therefore up to the adoption of the war declaration by Congress- we still stood in the traditional posi- ton of the republic.
 With victory, all this was changed. Our solennly declared purpose was abandoned and we were seized with the lust of conquest and for the arbitrary use of power "
 What has become of the organized government of Cuba, which were told was in operation one year ago? Has it gone gimmering to the limbo of lies along with our high minded pledge against conquest and aggrandizements
 With ordinary revenues still short of ordinary ex- pendtures we propose standing army of 100000 men and the immediate building of fifty battleships Suddenly the only objects of national interest ap- pear to be great army and massive navy to gar fison and guard distant possessions, the ownership of which was not desired year ago, and is not de- sirable now. Instead of setting example which will lift from the people of the world the burden and oppression of militarsrn forcing the in- crease of that incubus throughout the globe We are throwing moral power to the winds and going back to the principles that governed the early empires that there is only element in the successful gov ernment of man, and that is material physical force
 To what quarter can the people turn for light and leading in this! time of national lust and passon?:
 The American Commissioners have exceeded the wish and transcended the expectations Of the people They have affirmed policy that will drain us of billion dollars: within five years.
 It may be admitted that in the flush of military sue cess the people have seemed to approve some such course, but no thoughtful believes that it will have the ndorsement of their sober second thought
 ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON.