Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-03
Makes Powerful Address at
Chicago on Monroe Doctrine.
Immense Gathering Greet and Cheer
Him in Auditorium Theatre.
Made IL. D. by University of Chicago
and Addresses Students.

he stepped upon the stage of the Audi
torium, tonight. Every seat was oc-
cupied and although the aisles were
kept clear, all the space in the lobies
and on the. stair ways was taken and
even the passageways leading to the
hall from the lower floor were jammed
with hundreds of men who were utterly
unable to hear word of the Presi-
dents address. -8
In the street outside for more than
an hour before the time set for the
opening of the Presidents address a
small army of policemen was kept
busy. Thousands of people filled the
streets and avenues around the Audi
forum. The jam at the doors of the
hall for 80 minutes preceding the time
at which the President was to open his
address was of character to test to
the utmost the patience of the police
without and of the ushers within.
1t had been announced that no seats
would be reserved after $40, but the
| eager crowd in it's anxiety to gain ad-
| mission, forced matters on the clock a
| trifle and the time set for the expira-
| ton of reservations ended by popular
| usage about 10 minutes before it was
over by official proclamation. The man
who arrived at s o'clock and hoped to
| secure his seat was generally a disap-
pointed person.
When the President, escorted by the
members of the local committee, APP
| peared on the platform he was met
| with great enthusiasm, the vast crowd
rising to it's feet and supplementing its
hearty cheers with waving programs
| and fluttering handkerchiefs.
The President acknowledged his re-
cepttion with repeated bows and at
once took his seat between Franklin
MacVeagh, the chairman of the COM
| mittee, and Mayor Harrison, who was
| to deliver the formal address of well
come.
Mayor Harrison then spoke briefly,
| extending to the President a hearty
Welcome and EXPRESSING the. pleasure
| felt by the people of Chicago at his
visit and Offering to him their best
| their best wishes for happy and pleas
| ant trip during his two months of
vacation.
The President bowed his thanks to
| Mayor Harrison and Mr.. MacVeagh
| and then turning directly to the audi
ence in front of him, proceeded in his
| peculiarly energetic manner to deliver
his address
The address was as follows:
| Mr.. Chairman.
| Ladies and Gentlemen Today wish to
| speak to you, not merely about the Mon
| roe Doctrine. but about our entire posi-
| ton in the Western Hemisphere--a posi-
| ton so peculiar and predominant that
| out or 1t has grown the acceptance of Inc
Monroe Doctrine as a cardinal feature OF
foreign nOlicNr md in m rtir I icb
| to point out what has been done during
| the lifetime of the last Congress to make
good our position in accordance with this
historic policy.
Ever since the time when we definitely
extended our boundaries westward TO the
PACING and southwark to the Gulf, since
| the time when the old Spanish and Por-
| tuguese colonies to the south of us as
serted their Independence, our Nation
has insisted that because of its primacy
| in strength among the nations of the
Western hemisphere it has certain duties
and responsibilities which oblige it to take
a leading part thereon. We hold that our
interests in this hemisphere are greater
| than those of any European power pos
sihly can be and that our duty to our
selves and to the weaker republics who
are our neighhors requires us to see that
none of the great military powers from
across the seas shall encroach upon the
territory of the American republics or
acquire control thereover.
This policy, therefore, not only forbds
| us to acGuieSce in such territorial acquisi~
| ton, but also causes US to object to the
requirement of a control which would in
its effect he equal to territorial aggran
dizement. This is why the United States
has steadily believed that the construction
OF the great lsthmian canal, the building
of which is to stand as the greatest mate
rial feat of the twentieth century-greater
than any similar feat in any preceding
century-should he done by no foreign
OF necessity go through the territory of
one OF our smaller sister republics. We
have been scrupulously careful to abstain
from perpetrating any wrong upon any OF
these republics in this matter. We do not
wish to interfere with their rights in the
least, but, while carefully safeguarding
them. to build the canal ourselves under
provisions which will enable us, If neces-
sary to police and protect it. and to
guarantee it's neutrality, We being the sole
guarantor Our intention was steadfast.
we desired action taken so that the canal
could always be used by us in time of
peace and war alike. and in time of war
could never be used to our detriment by
any nation which was hostile to us. Such
it, was necessarily for the benefit and not
the detriment OF the adjacent American
republics.
After considerably more than half OF
century these objects have been exactly
fulfilled by the legislation and treaties or
the last two years; TWO years ago we
We're no further advanced toward the
construction of the Isthmian canal on
our terms than we had been during the
preceding eighty years, BY the Hay
Pauncefote treaty ratified in December
1901, an old treaty with Great Britain.
which had been held to stand in the
way was abrogated and it was agreed
that the canal should be constructed
under the auspices of the Government
of the United States and that this Gov
eminent should have the exclusive right
to regulate and manage it, becoming the
sole gl,arantor of it's neutrality.
1t was expressly stipulated furthermore
that this guaranty of neutrality should not
prevent the United States from taking any
measures which it found necessary in or
der to secure by its own forces the defense
of the United States and the maintenance
of public order. Immediately following
this treaty Congress passed q law under
which the President was authorized to
endeavor to secure a treaty for acquiring
the right to finish the construction Of,
and to operate the Panama Canal, which
had already been begun in the territory
OF Colombia by French company. The
rights of this company were accordingly
obtained and a treaty negotiated with the
Republic of Colombia. This treaty has just
been ratified by the Senate. 1t reserves
all of Colombia $ rights, while guarantee
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