The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1902-09-04
BLAINE AND MONROE.
President Roosevelt Reaffirms the Doctrine
in Paying Tribute to Names Great
Statesman.

President Roosevelt Reafirms the Doctrine
in Paying Tribute to Names Grea,
Statesman.
! In his speech at Augusta the Presi-
dent spoke as follows:
GOV. Burleigh, My Fellow Citizens.
Men and Women of Maine-It would
De difficult for any man speaking to
this audience, and from in front of
the house in which Blaine once lived.
applause to fail to feel whatever of
merlcanlsm there was in him stirred
to the depths. (Applause)
For my good fortune | knew Mr..
Blaine quite we'll when he was secretary
of State, and l have thought again and
again during the past few years how
pleased he would have been to see so
many of the principles for which he
had stood approach fruition.
Zone secret, perhaps | NAV say the
chief secret of Mr.. Blaines extraor-
binary hold upon the affections of his
countrymen, was his entirely genuine
and unaffected Americanism. (Ap-
plauSe.)
Now, when | speak of American
ism do not for minute mean to say,
gentlemen, that all the things we do
are right. | think there are plenty
OF evils to correct, and that often man
shows himself all the more patriot by
showing to us the things which NAV in
terfere with our approaching the ideal
of true Americanism.
But, not only admitting but also en-
phasizing that, it yet remains true that
throughout our history no one has been
able to render great service to the coun-
try if he did not believe in the country
And Mr. Blaine possessed to an emf
nent degree the confident hope in the
nations future which made him feel
that she must ever strive to fit herself
for great DESTINY
He felt that this republic must in
every way take the lead in the Western
Hemisphere. He felt that this republic
must take great part among the great
nations OF the EARTH
The last four years have shown how
true that feeling of his was. He had
always hoped that we would have a
peculiarly intimate relation with the
counties south of us. He could hard
ly have anticipated, no one could have,
the Spanish war and its effects.
In consequence of that war Ameri-
cas- interest in the tropic islands to our
south, and the seas and coasts surround
my llOS6 ISldlluS, IS Tar greater than
ever before.
'Our interest in the Monroe doctrine
is more concrete than ever before.
THE Monroe doctrine is simply a
statement of our very firm belief that
on this continent the nations now e$-
listing here must be left to work out
their own deStinies among themselves,
and that the continent is no longer to
be regarded as colonizing ground for
any European power.
The one power on the continent that
! can make that doctrine effective is, of
course ourselves: for in the world as it
is, gentlemen, the nation which adyanc-
es a given doctrine likely to interfere in
any way with other nations must pos
sess power to back it up if she wishes
the doctrine to be respected
1--WE stand firmly on the Monroe doc
trlne, and the events of the last nine
months have rendered it evident that
we Shall soon embark on the work of
| eXcaVating the isthmian canal to CON
meet the two great OceanS--a work deS-
tined to be, probably. the greatest EN-
glnetrlng feat of the goth century: GER
talnlt greater engineering feat than
mas ever yet been successfully attempt
, ed among the nations of mankind. and
as 1t is the biggest thing of its kind to
be done. am glad that it is the 'nited
states that is to do it, Applausej