Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-02
TOR MONROE DOCTRINE
Vice President Roosevelt Takes
: Firm Stand on q Ma.
tional Principle.
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Integrity Of American Soil Must
Be Guarded With z cal.
Gus Care.
Speech Of the Vice President at
the Minnesota Fair
Today.

fair grounds at Minneapolis. Lieuten-
ant General Miles Joined the party here.
At the fair grounds Roosevelt delivered
an address to the assembled thousands
and was given an enthusiastic recep-
ton.
Vice President Roosevelt in beginning
his address paid high tribute to the
character and energy of the men de-
scended, he said, from a race Of pioneers
which had pushed westward into the
wilderness and laid the foundations for
new commonwealths. The men with the
ak and pick and plow, who, he said, had
pushed to completion the dominion of
our people over the American wilder
ness, had shown by their qualities OF
daring, endurance and far-sightedness
that they recognized ON practical form
the fundamental law of success in
American life-the law of worthy work;
the law of resolute, high endeavor.
Continuing he said: ut seems to me
that the simple acceptance of this fun
damental fact of American life will help
us to start Alright in facing not a few OF
the problems that confront us from
without and from within.
We can not possibly do our best work
as a nation unless all of us know how to
act in combination as we'll asito act each
individually for himself. This acting in
combination can take many forms, but,
of course its most effective form must
be when 1t comes in shape Of law; tina.
is, OF action by the community as a
whole thru the law-making bodies. No
hard and fast rule can be laid down as
to where our legislation shall stop in in
terfering between man and man, be-
tween interest and interest. All that
can be said is that it is highly undesir-
able. on the one hand, that in constant
1y increasing number of cases we shall
find 1t necessary In the future to shackle
cunning az in the past we have shackled
force. 1t is not highly desirab Bile, but
necessary that there should be legisla-
tion which shall carefully shield the in
terests of wage-w workers. and which
shall discriminate in favor of the honest
and humane employer by removing the
disadvantage under which he stands
when compared with INSCRIPTIONS COM
petitors who have no conscience and will
do rie.t only under fear of punishment.
Nor can legislation stop with what are
termed labor questions. The vast indi-
vidual and corporate fortunes. the vast
combinations of capital. which have
marked the development of our indus.
trial system, create new conditions and
necessitate change from the old atti-
tude of the state and nation toward
prosperity"
There was. he contended, but the
ecantiest justification for most of the
outcry against men of wealth, as such.
and 1t ought to be unnecessary, he said,
TO state that any appeal. which finally
entails the possibility of lawlessness and
violence, was an attack upon the fun
damental properties of American citi-
zenship.
Our interests are at bottom COM
mon." he continued. I'm the long run we
so up or down together. Yet more and
r;ore 1t is evident that the state, and II
necessary the nation, has got to possess
the right of supervision and control as
regards the great corporations which
are it's creatures; particularly as re-
CARDS the great business combinations
which derive portion of their import
aEce from the existence of some monop-
clistic tendency"
AS to our relations with foreign
powers Vice President Roosevelt said
that our nation, while first of all see
ing to its own domestic wellbeing, must
not shrink from playing its part am
ong the great nations without. Our
duty" he said, may take many forms In
the future as 1t has taken many forms
In the past. Nor is 1t possible to lay
down hard and fast rule for all
cases. We must ever face the fact of
our. shifting national needs. of the all
ways changing opportunities that pre-
sent themselves. But we may be GER
tain of one thing: whether we wish it
or not we cannot avoid hereafter hav-
ing duties to do in the face of other
nations. All that we can do is to settle
whether we shall perform these duties
we'll or ILL.,"
He counseled courtesy and respect
in all dealings with any foreign power
with whom the government might come
In contact. On this point he added:
LET us make 1t evident that we in
tend to do justice. Then letius make
1t equally evident that we Will not toll
crate injustice being done us In re-
turn. Let US further make 1t evident
that we use no words which we are not
prepared to back up with deeds, and
chat while our speech is always mod
crate. we are ready and willing to make
good. Such an attitude will be the
surest possible guarantee of that self
respecting peace. the attainment of
which is and must ever be the prime
MIN Of a self governing people. This
8 Is the attitude we must take as regards
she Monroe doctrine.
I'VE do not by this doctrine intend
10 sanction any policy of aggression by
one American commonwealth at the
expense of any other. nor any policy
ss,f commercial discrimination against
my foreign power whatsoever. Com
Hercially .as far as this doctrine IL
concerned. all we wish is a fair field and
40 favor, but II we are wise we shall
d sstrenuously insist that under no pre-
stext whatsoever shall there be any ter
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