Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-21
PArRrorrc WORDS FROM HILL.

PATRIOTIC WORDS FROM HILL.
Ex-senator Hills st. Patrick's day
speech in Brooklyn glowed with pa
triotic fervor and bristled with point
ed denunciation of the brutal policy
of England in South Africa and incl
dentally with criticism of our w
governments attitude in that affair.
After reviewing the causes Of rupture
between England and the South Afri-
can republics, Gov. Hill, speaking for
a wider application of the Monroe doc
trine, said:
THE supineness of this great republic
in the present emergency while witnessing
the destruction of two struggling repub-
lies in South Africa and the substitution
of a monarchial government in their place,
is almost incomprehensible.
1T is difficult to discover why the ap-
plication of the principle involved in the
Monroe Doctrine should be limited to this
continent, and why not now, under
changed conditions, be appropriately in
voked for the prevention of the destruc-
ton of republics wherever they are
situate.
I'm other words, if a Holy Alliance or,
rather, an Unholy Alliance, still exists
among certain monarchial governments to
cause the destruction or to prevent the
spread of republican institutions through
out the globe, why hould the obligation
of the greatest of republics to ~antagonize
that alliance be restricted in it's action to
it's own continent?
The danger being universal, it may
well be urged hat the field of duty should
be worldwide"
And here Gov. Hill gives the admin
istration a dose of it's own favorite
"world-power" doctrine" Has not the
expansion of the nation" says he,
necessarily expanded the sphere of
the Monroe doctrine?"
Gov. hill recalls the attitude as
sumed by this government during Mr..
Cleveland's first administration when
serious differences arose between
Great Britain and Venezuela wei a
disputed boundary. "The policy or
principle enunciated,' said he, may
appropriately be termed the new
American doctrine. Our position was
a bold departure from established US
ages for which there were no prece-
dents. But it was the right position
to assume, and nations, like individ-
uals, can always afford to do what is
just.
1.-THE essential privilege established
in that international controversy
was briefly this: That a strong and
powerful monarchy must submit it's
alleged differences with a weak repub-
lie to arbitration, or else the United
States will not permit the monarchy,
on the pretence of such differences,
to crush the republic.
THE wanton destruction of repub-
lies and the consequent extension of
empires may well be regarded as a
menace to free government every
where which should be resisted.
THE evident qualification with
which King Edward made the official
announcement to Parliament of the
conquering of the two South African
Republics was only equalled by the
official complacency with which it was
received here. But whatever may
have been the attitude which our
Government has felt constrained to
assume there has never been the
slightest question of the sentiments of
the generous and warm-hearted Amer
lean people upon this subject"
Gov. Hills declaration that the
Monroe doctrine expands with expan-
sion places the administration in the
predicament Of confessing either that
Mr.. McKinley's high sounding decla-
rations about our free institutions suf-
fering no deterioration in distant seas
and lands was pure buncombe and
hypocrisy, or else that his administra-
ton is actuated by the most un-Amer-
lean Of motives in its favoritism for
Great Britain against the Dutch Re-
publics.