The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-23

the wall of the oppressed Cuhans, so
should we rise as a body and loudly
protest in the name of equity against
this most unsanctimonious proceeding.
But the day will come when public
opinion, stronger than governments,
more powerful than political influence,
will triumph and might will be con-
quered by right.
The Monroe Doctrine Modernized-Alfred
Balmforth.
Frequent references to the Monroe
doctrine for the purpose of sustaining
views connected with our foreign af-
fairs make it well to know what the
doctrine really is.
Shortly after the treaty of Nov. 30,
1882, in which Great Britain formally
acknowledged the sovereignty and indie
pendence of the United States, the
opinion was prevalent that America be-
longed to the Americans and in order
to preserve our institutions we must
not become party to any foreign alli-
ance. That the Monroe doctrine is
something difficult of comprehension, as
many persons seem to believe, is far
from the truth, If you would have the
true meaning and its applicability to
our foreign policy, read the words of
the president from whose lips flowed
these patriotic principles. Start at the
source C1lS great American OOctFlne
and form your own opinion.
The main thought may be expressed
in few statements: Firstly. there
shall be no European colonies on these
American continents: secondly, there
shall be no extension Of the European
political system to any portion of this
Western hemisphere: and thirdly, no
European power shall interfere in the
affairs of the Spanish American repub-
tn, t~ Sy,n Itch,
lean affairs, Mr.. Monroe expressed his
views thus: 1T is the interest of the
United States to preserve the most
friendly relations with every power and
on conditions fair, equal and applicable
to all. But in regard to our neighbors,
our situation is different. 1t is impos-
sble for the European government to
interfere in their affairs, especially in
those alluded ito, which are vital, with
out affecting u.s."
1t is to be hoped that the Monroe doc
trine shall no longer be limited to
America for the Americans" but shall
grow to mean "All the world for Amer
lean commerce and the protection of the
American flag over the lives of Ameri-
can citizens and American property in
every corner of the earth"
The Poet of Childhood-Ch Christine Brebner.
"Ah what would the world be to us,
If children were no more?
We would dread the desert behind US,
Worse than the dark before
There are few men or women, who,
having advanced to middle life. have
not come to look back on the Travelled
road of existence in thought of those
who Travelled with them, part of their
hopes and joyousness, the shares of all
their ambition and their pleasures.
whose mission has been fulfilled and
who have left them with the milestones
of years still seeming to stretch out
on the path ahead. 1t is then memory
which comes with its soothing influence,
telling of the happiness that was theirs
and comforting them with the ever
recurring thought of the pleasures of
those childhood days.
Recollection is the only paradise
from which we cannot be turned out"
1t is when we read the poems of Eu-
gene Field that all these pleasant m"m-
cries come back to us. Old hopes, rosy
with the expectations of the indefinite
and unknowable. Old misgivings and
fears; old romping and holidays and
precious idle hours. We know them all
and we know how true they are. Our
hearts go out to those who love Little