New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-02
DEEDSMUSTBACK WORDS
PRESIDENT SPE4KS AGAIN
on .NONROE DOCTRINE.
HIS VERMONT JOURNEY ENDED. HE
STOPS FOR THE NIGHT At EAST
NORTHFIELD, MASS.

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East NorthtieId Mass. Sept 1.-The President
was Informed to-day that his utterance on the
Monroe Doctrine at James g. Blaines former
home. at Augusta Me, had created a good deal
Of excitement in Europe. Just why this was so
his informants could not tell him. for. as they
said and he agreed there was nothing said az
,,7g,,s-a very different from what he has said
in MANY WAYS ever since he has been in public
life But to-day he preached a slightly ad-
,-ancad sermon on the same text After dehn-
inc rho Monroe Doctrine briefly. he expounded
for y moment or two the ways in which it was
,,soasearv to support that doctrine. if foreign
,,a+tore mean TO take exception to it This was
- Proctor the home of United States Senator
rs7fa1d Proctor. who opened the proceedings
b,. Nominating President Roosevelt for second
torn, The President. coming forward into an
a~bor Of evergreers and American flags that had
,.ar, erected on the Senator's porch. said to the
naople who had gathered on the lawn:
We believe in the Monroe Doctrine. not as a
means Of aggression II all II does not mean
- ~ are aggressive toward any power IL
,,e merely that as the biggest power on this
eortirar+ We remain steadtastly true 70 the
i,tr1Ia ere+ formulated under the Presidency
nf Monroe through John Quincy Adams-the
- maj This continent must be treated
% - ts,,bisrt for political colonization by any
European power . --. ,..
T. - doctrine Of peace; a doctrine of de
fance doctrine 20 secure the chance on this
,rI7+jran- for the United states here to develop
.1ao1ar,I,- along their own lines. Now
baT-a formulated that doctrine. II our fOrmu-
1a+ion consists simply OF statements on the
+,1r or ON paper. they are not worth the
- +bat ,Ir-ars them or of the paper on
,rbich they are written Remember that the
Monroe Doctrine VIII De Tespected as long as
we have a first CLASS eiilolVii1 navy, ana not
very much longer . .,
-. H.. . e7frg 70 do and does not back il I'D
and
nation the last thing We can afford TO do is 10
taLe a positfon which we DO not intend to try
- ,,sLya Good Dragging and boasting in pri-
- rfa are almost always the signs of q
raal, man and nation that is strong does
not need 10 have its pubic men boast or brag
nr it's account Least Of all does a sef-respect-
- .,+i,r wish it's public representatives. to
4Ilo,+an o- menace or insult another power
~, G' s1titude toward all powers must be
OuI a. s;j=ed courtesy and respect as We in
oL 80 81 tbat they shall show us in return. We
- ha willing TO give the friendly regard that
mus o+ pe fro,,7 them We must no more wrong
we eA4t, - - Ne must submit to wrongGoing by
49, nm when we take position let
rnsr3ber that our holding It depends upon our
selves depends upon o'i sHO"ii'S 'ldt we nave
the ability 70 hold II.
After sneaking Of the part Vermont has played
49, countrv.s history through AdmiraIs
- and Clark the President continued:
e,-.. 30 ne if We assert the Monroe Doctrine
ohdihe - If our assertion shall be called in
anestinn anu show that We have only made an idle
boae+ that We are not prepared 10 DaCk up our
nut2t, a ~ deeds loud applauseD
I,RoR DAY CELEBRATIONS.
At other cities in Vermont where he stopped
tho President referred to the Labor Day cele-
brations of which the people made his visit
part. .. - l.
80 s,ron,er flowers. were escorted through
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