The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-10-25
HAVE THEY 4 F)REIGN POLICY
(From the New Yo4k Journal of Com
mercc.O

(FrOm the New Yo4k journal OF COM
mercc.)
The letter of acceptance of the Demo-
cratic candida e for President sheds no
new light on the question of what woulG
be the foreign policy of a Democi att
administrator Like the national plat
form, and the other official and sens:-
official declarations of The CANDIDATE ara
his party which rave preceoed it, the
definition of a foreign policy attempted
in the letter of acceptance Is wea:.,
evasive and contradictory. Let il be az
mitted, which is by no means true, that
before the acquisition of the Philippines,
I'VE were practically invu.herabie
against attacks by foreign s a es." Let
1t be further conceded. also in the tee;a
of the facts. that these tropical posses
sions nave changed ell this, what mc1-
sage has Judge Parker to deliver to rs
fel.ow-countrymen with regard to the
new aspect of our relations roward t@c
rest of the world? Merely, that 1t cat
for a management of foreign affairs TIC
more ~circumspect that the invasion or
foreign markets by the products of the
United Sta .es has excited the serious az
prehension of all tie great industrl~'
peoples, In o.her words, our demo1,-
strated superiority in certain llEes or
INDUSTRY is making for us 50 many enc
mics that we must De careful 10 AVOID
giving them any other cause of ohease.
Was ever more arrant nonsense so3eiiJ
submitted as a formula for the guidancc
of a great power in It's intercourse VIII
the rest of the world? 1t does no. seen.
to have occurred to Judge Parker tina.
the ma. ntenance of the commercial and
industrial greatness of the United safes
imperatively demands the adoption OF :
foreign policy in which vigor and resoi;-
ton shall be more conspicuous tina.
timidity or temrorizing caut on. 1t is the
policy of weakness and ma1eshife wh.c.'
leads to war, not that OF f~rankness, VI
rectnoss and incorporating decision.
To the American voter looking for In
lOfiudtiOn III tN6oA1
which the Democratic party has formec
of the rcsponsib.l.ties of the Unites
States as the greatest of the powers or
the Pacific, it cannot be very satisfactory
to be told: LET us adhere 10 the policy
of Washington Nor can 1T greatly acc
to the Information of the thoughtful pa
triot as to what the Democrats wour:
do in defense of the Monroe Doctrine &c
have the policy of Washington defined
as meaning a reputation of "the reie
of the American continental policeman
while at the same time claiming the
rights and assumir g the functions of ,:e
friend. a-iy and defender o. other Amer
lean states against European aggression
Judge Parker shows a singular lack o.
judicial fairness when he seeks to oo.vcy
the impression that the pre- sent admins
trat.on has at any time acted in South
America as a debt collector for tore g.
states or their CT liens" As a matter OF
fact, President Cleveland $ ard Mr.. G..
ney's South American policy was a god
deal more fruitful of occasions for trou
BILE than that of their Republican Sc
cossers. Judge Parker makes no at-empt
10 show how we can keep EaroIean
states from interfering for the protection
of the persons and property of their oi-
liens in Central and South America,
while leaving republics enireatly pro.c
10 fall into the hands of a CLIQUE or
knavish adventures entire freedom to
manage their affairs in their own wa.
In fact. the Democratic candidate give.
no indication that he has ever seriously
attempted TO master perhaps the mos.
complex, delicate and difficult of AT
problems before the sta esmen O. III : ir-
public. any more than he has to mas e.
its complementary problem Of the reia-
tons OF the United States to The fu ur-
OF the Asiatic shores OF the Paci-c ocean.
The cheap commonplaces of the letter or
acceptance in dealing with the fore;g;,