The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-07-03

the crime for which White paid fear
full penalty was unknown and now
after nearly forty years OF freedom it
is today of much more frequent oc-
curance than any previous years.
The people of the State of Mary
land will this fall pass upon the race
question. Disguise as we may there
will be no other issue so far as Mary
land politics is concerned. The COM
plete defeat of the Republican party
means partial annihilation of the
negro vote. The citizens otthis State
will bear i'll mind the one single pur-
pose, and, in their determination to
effectually settle this matter, no
question of personality will be
allowed to sway their Judgment.
EXPANSION OF MONROE DOCTRINE. |
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, editor of the
New York Tribune, who has recently |
been employed in our diplomatic SER
vice and thereby had an opportunity |
to broaden his views on many public
questions, recently delivered an adj
dress before the law school Of Yale |
University, which seems to put Il
different construction on the limits of |
the Monroe Doctrine. Mr. Polk eX-
tended this doctrine somewhat by
warning Europe that we would not
allow the transfer of Yucatan to a
foreign power, even with the con-
sent of Mexico, and our Government |
later gave the same notice i'll regard |
to Cuba. Still in these cases the con-
trolling motive was self-defensc asthis |
country could not afford to allow any
European power a naval station and |
a garrison on the Gulf of Mexico.
Mr.. Reid points out that absolute
ism has ended in Europe, outside of
Russia, while the South Americans
have thoroughly discreditcd Repub-
licanism, and that a passion for
public rights would not justify our
intervention to save q South Ameri- |
can nation from England, France or
Germany. The most recent trying
experience has been with Venezuela
which seems to show a tendency to
disgrace all forms Of government.
Still that country is too near for us
to permit military establishment |
on her shores. Mr.. Reid relies on the
original purpose of selfdefense as the
only justification for future applica-
tons OF the Monroe Doctrine. Russia |
and China for the same reason might |
have loI hidden our operations at |
Manila on the same grounds on which |
we base our claim to warn France |
and Germany off of Patagonia. Had
this been done, it is more than prob |
able that we would have denied their |
rights and resented their interference. |
Mr.. Reid suggests that if England |
had found it necessary, i'll order to
protect the interest of her investors,
to occupy the Argentine Republic in
1890, no real interest OF ours would |
have been menaced. The country is
too remote to be regarded as in our
sphere of influence. The Gulf of
Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, the |
Pacific Ocean, in the vicinity of the
Isthmus of Panama, are clearly with
i'll that sphere. European nations,
on the Shores of these waters, would |
affect our means of defense but he
strongly urges that the application
of the Monroe Doctrine be limited to
the sphere of our influence. Within
that sphere all Europe recognizes our
right to assert it. Outside of that
we have no interest in asserting it,
and we may assume burdensome re-
sponsibilities in so doing.
tits interesting at this time to find a
prominent Republican like Mr.. Reid
uttering a word ofcaution regarding
the application of this principle of
our foreign policy, especially as the
President seems to desire a big navy
and an aggressive foreign policy.
Mr.. Roosevelt has indicated several
times disposition to distend the
Monroe Doctrine which is already
expanded much beyond its original
meaning. In the recent Venezuela
troubles he came very near being
caught III diplomatic trap by at
tempting to limit its powers. Never
before has this been done by any pre-
vious administration and the United
States was exceedingly fortunate in
escaping from the meshes which had
been set for us by our sister countries
in the Old World
Catarrh of the Stomach.