The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-14

government in the Western continent,
because 1t seemed that the safety of our
experiment would be menaced by the re-
establishment and maintenance Of the
Spanish royal authority in South and
Central America. That danger now is
passed. The lite republic OF the
times of President Monroe has grown
to be a world-power with lofty ambi-
tions which have climbed to the very
gates of imperialism. We, too, are not
now satisfied with our carefully guarded
isolation but desire colonial possessions.
it matters not where
Side by side with the United States
have grown up the republics Of the
southern continent From the state of
weakness in which they were when their
big brother of the North defed the Holy
Alliance, they have come to be rich in
the resources of peaceful industry and
commerce, and strong in the slnews of
defensive war. The protection against
foreign aggression which was once af-
forded by the self-defensive American
doctrine of exclusiveness, is no longer
needed. South America has DEVELOPED
a status in which the balance Of power
is as accurately adjusted as is that of
Europe Let any foreign nation attempt
to subvert any one OF che Latin repub-
lies and the remainder would make COM
mon cause against the invaders. The
three leading republics, Brazil. Argen-
the field u million of well-trained sol
diers. While on the ocean they can meet
any hostile movement with a modern feet
of twenty armored cruisers and battle
ships. Where is there a nation which
will attempt colonization in the face of
such an array of civilized power? The
Monroe doctrine has become absolutely
obsolete viewed from every conceivable
point. If it ever had been an acknowI-
edged tenet of International law, the
time has passed when it's enforcement
could be called for, even had not this
nation voluntarily abandoned it by af-
firmative action
There is no doubt that the South
American republics are receiving a large
share Of the foreign emigration from
Europe. The Italians and the French
are emigrating to Argentine and the
Germans and Portuguese to Brazil but
their motives, instead of being political,
are the same as those which animate the
emigrants, to Canada and the United
States. Instead of raising an objection
to this transfer of the old wine to new
bottles we should encourage it. The
more Germans and French and italians
that find home in South America. the
better is it for our dream of profitable
and enduring world-commerce. For are
not the markets of Rio Janeiro, Monte
video, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso near
er to US than to Europe? Will not this
whole southern continent be directly
tributary to American enterprise when
the projected bi-continental railroad is
completed? The time is not far distant
when Chicago will have direct connec-
ton without change of cars with the
capital of the Argentine Republic.
The policy of the United States, there
FORE should be to encourage all enter
prises that will tend to develop the vast
resources of South America, keeping in
mind the fact that this republic has be-
come too big to insist upon the ex-
elusive doctrine of it's infancy, and that
the republics of the south have become
too strong to need the protecting hand
of their northern prototype.