Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-04-09
TIE PRESIDENT AT CHICAGO.
Talks Of Monroe Doctrine and Our
Position in Western Hemisphere.

Talks OF Monroe Doctrine and Our
Position in Western Hemisphere.
Chicago, April Silk thousand
people, in hall the seating capacity
Of which is but 5000, gave enthusias.
tic greeting to President Roosevelt,
when he stepped upon the stage Of
the Auditorium last night. The great
building has held many throng, but
never one that was more hearty and
unstinted in it's applause for any
man than the crowd that filed it
last night. From the first floor TO
the roof it was packed to its utmost
capacity.
The address of the president dealt
with the Monroe doctrine and the
position of the United States in tho
Western Hemisphere. He said IN
part:
Ever since the time when we de.
fnitely extended our boundaries west.
ward to the Pacific and southwark
to the gulf, since the time when the
old Spanish and Portuguese colonies to
the south of us asserted their indie
pendence 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 Euro
pean power possibly can be, and that
our duty to ourselves and to the
weaker republics who are our neigh.
bors requires us to see that none of
the great military powers from across
the seas shall encroach upon the ter.
ritory of the American republics or
acquire control thereover.
This policy, therefore, not only for
bids us to acqniesce in such territorial
acquisition. but also causes us to OBJ
ject to the requirement of a control
which would in it's effect be equal to
territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This is
why the United States has steadily be-
lieved that the construction Of the
great isthmian canal, the building
of which is to stand as the greatest
material feat of the twentieth CEN
tury-greater than any similar feat
in any preceding century-should be
done by no foreign nation but by our
selves"
The president here referred to the
different steps taken to secure the
canal, and then discussed the course
of the United States in the recent
Venezuelan trouble, asserting that
both Germany and Great Britain
assured us in explicit terms that
there was not the slightest intention
on .neir part to violate &c principles
of the Monroe doctrine, and this as.
surance was kept with an honorable
good faith which merits full acknowl-
edgement on our part"
The Monroe doctrine" he de-
clared, sis not international law, and
though l think one day it may be-
come such, this is not necessary as
long as it remains cardinal feature
Oh our foreign policy and as long as
we possess both the will and the
strength to make it effective. This
last point, my fellow citizens, is all
important, and is one which as a
people we can never afford to forget.
| believe in the Monroe doctrine with
all my heart and soul; l am convinc-
ed that the immense majority of our
fellow country men SO believe in it;
but | would infinitely prefer to see US
abandon it than to see us put 1t for
ward and buster about 1t, and yet fail
to build up the efficient fighting
strength which in the last resort can
alone make it respected by any strong
foreign power whose interest it may
ever happen to be to violate it.
Roasting and clustering are as OBJ
jectionable among nations as among
individuals, and the public men Of a
great nation owe it to their sense of
national self-respect to speak courte-
ously Of foreign powers just as a
brave and self-respecting man treats
all around him courteously. But
though to boast Is bad and cause
lessly to insult another, worse; yet
worse than all is it to be guilty of
boasting, even without insult, and
when called to the proof to be un.
able to make such Boosting good
In conclusion the president said |:
I'VE wish a powerful and efficient
navy not for the purposes of war
but as the surest guaranty of peace
If we have such a navy-if we keep
on building it up-we may rest as
sured that there Is but the smallest
chance that trouble will ever come
to this nation: and we may likewise
rest assured that no foreign power
will ever quarrel with us about the
Monroe doctrine"
In his Random "reminiscences, p
Charles H. e. Brookfield says that his
great uncle, Henry Hallam, the his
torian, was invited by Tennyson to be
godfather to his first boy. Hallam
readily consented. AS they were
| walking up the church-yard, side by
side, the historian inquired of Tenny
son: What name do you mean to
give him." I'VE thought of calling
him Hallam," said the poet. "Oh, had
you not better call him Alfredo" mod
estly suggested the historian. "AyeH
! replied the bard, "but If he should
turn out a fool?"
The farmers of Indiana, when fue
Is scarce, cook an egg without fire
The egg is placed in a sling and whirl
ed around for about five minutes, until
the heat generated by the motion has