The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-25
MONROE DOCTRINE
Is ABANDONED.
Gen. Sherwood Arraigns Nc
kinley's Administration.
1T HAS LOST IT'S MORAL FORCE
In Europe Today Cuban Postal frauds
handled without Gloves Trial May
Determine whether the Consti-
tuition koiiows the flag.
Detroit Free Press. }

Detroit Free Press)
General Isaac r. Sherwood, of Tole-
do, an ex-congressman well known to
Ohio and Michigan people, VINO Is in
the city on business, criticised the
national administration in some pretty
cutting phrases in an interview yes
terday.
Referring to the recently published
statement Of Secretary of War Root
that the present administration Is deter
mined to maintain the Monroe doctrine
and also to the recent speech Of Sena-
tor Lodge, in which the bogie of a war
with Germany because Of her colonial
interests in Brazil and other South
American countries was held up, Gen.
Sherwood said:
Secretary Root, while undoubtedly a
good lawyer, has not studied the Mon
roe doctrine, and is certainly q very
poor student Of American history. The
Monroe doctrine grew out of the strug-
gle of the South and Central American
colonies of Spain for independence.
Spain found herself unable to suppress
the revolutions and appealed to the
allied powers of Europe to assist in
putting down the Instructions. The
sympathy Of the people Of the United
States was almost universally with the
revolutionary party. In accordance with
this sentiment, President Monroe sent a
message to congress in December, 1S23
which contained inter-continental ideas
ever since recognized as the Monroe
doctrine. That message was debated at
that time by the ablest lawyers in the
senate, among them Daniel Webster,
and 1t was almost unanimously de-
clared to be the American doctrine, and
has continued to be so considered by
all parties for three quarters of a GEN.
tury-or up to President Mckinley.
President Monroe said We do not pro-
pose to interfere with European affairs
or European politics, neither do we pro-
pose that they shall interfere with the
politics or complications on this side Of
the Atlantic President Cleveland's s
Venezuelan message embraced afl that
was vital of the Monroe doctrine, and
this message was favorably approved
by the whole American people.
MONROE DOCTRINE HAS GONE.
Now the present administration has
plunged this government not only into
European politics, but also into Asiatic
politics, which Is far worse. Having
| inaugurated a policy and announced
| the intentions Of the United States
government to control vast islands and
| and dense populations in the Orient,
what moral right have we to say that
Europeans or Orientals have no right
| to interfere with American complica-
tions? If we have the legal and moral
| right to mix up with the politics of
the Orient and Of Europe, will they
| not claim the same right 20 mix in af-
| fairs of this hemisphere? In other
words, this administration has aban-
doned the basic principle of the Monroe
| doctrine, and this is a fact clearly un-
| derstood by every government of
| Europe. 1t is pretty generally known
that England had an ulterior motive in
| encouraging the late conquests of the
| United States in the Philippines. She
wants the Monroe doctrine nullified. The
Monroe doctrine has lost all it's moral
force in Europe today because the vital
principle which gave it birth has been
abandoned. The Monroe doctrine has
gone with the Declaration of Indepen-
dence."
CUBAN POSTAL FRAUDS.
Speaking Of the Cuban postal frauds
| recently exposed, Gen. Sherwood said
that Rathbone was the man who did
the sleek" business in Ohio during the
sensational campaign of 1918 which
resulted in the election of Mark Hanna.
Rathbone, according to him, is the
man who handled the money, and han
| died 1t successfully"
"How are they going to convict Rath-
| 7 t,
| asked the general. what kind of an
indictment can they prepare against
them? Whose money was 1t that Is sup
| posed to have been stolen? If it was
the money of the United States, how
does 1t come that it was not, when
collected, regularly turned into the
United States treasury, as provided by
| law? No officer of the government
has the right to collect and disburse
money. If the administration has al
lowed this illegal practice to continue
| until the exposure of the frauds then
the responsible party is liable to be
indicted along with the rest, as an ac-
complice. If, on the other hand, it was
Cuban money, what right has the gov
ernment of the United States; under the
| declaration of war or the treaty of
Paris, to the control of Cuban money?
What right has the United States to
indict one of its own agents, have him
tried by judge appointed by the presi-
| dent to serve In foreign country,
whose appointment is clearly unconsti-
tutional? Both Neely and Rathbone
are citizens of the United States. I'm
der the constitution and the bill of
rights, they are entitled to trial by
| jury of their peers. Where will they
find that jury in Cuba? If tried by
President McKinley's appointed judge
and convicted, there is not a court in
the United States that would hesitate
to set aside the verdict.
CONSTITUTION AND THE FLAG.
Here is where the question comes in
as to whether the constitution follows
the flag. President Mckinley has his
flag and his military in Cuba, as he
claims. without the constitution. The
| authority of the president is limited
Il