The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-25

( trine, their just and honest obligations
70 European powers.
Careful Interpretation Needed.
We have had numerous examples OF
this character. When Cleveland was
president. England demanded from Nj
caragua a large sum OF money on ac-
count Of injuries done to some Eng
lish citizens. Great Britain attempted
to collect il. but without success. Fin
I ally she sent war vessels there and no.
tined the officials that they were going
TO land marines and take possession
of the custom houses until the money
was collected. The Nicara guam minister
at Washington made earnest protest
and demanded that our government
should intercept Great Britain and
prevent such an OutTage Ous act. Pres
ident Cleveland said mo. we do not
know whether You owe the English
government or not. If YOU cannot ar
range il by arbitration YOU viii Eave
10 do the best XoU can" As long as
Great Britain is not attempting TO es-
tabhsh her government in Nicaragua, fri
we will not interfere" We held the
same attitude towards Haiti when Ger
many asserted claims against that gov
eminent and the summary manner In 81
which several European governments
effected settlement with Venezuela ,
affords more recent example
First. Assistant Secretary of State
Loomis says that our attitude and in
terests have largely been evolved
and determined by the development Of b.
this famous declaration. He SAYS tina
fundamentally the Monroe doctrine is
our expression of the national right 10
self-defense; that sooner or. lair a
doctrine or policy Identical i'm spirit IL
not in form, would have been cnun-
ciated. even had Monroe never lived.
He reminds US that the doctrine. as il
is now held. is not the result of one
mans efforts or ideas. nor the devel-
Opment of one day or decade.
The Monroe doctrine is known and
discussed throughout all of South
Anne lea. from the poorest west coast
village to the boulevard i'm BueuOS
Ayres. of course, Europeans regard il
as inimical TO their interests and have
great deal to say against it, An emil
nent French jurist las written an OK
haustive treatise upon il. he says
among other kings that the Monroe
doctrine has no more bearing upon
some of the issues IL involves than the
OlOgy has with question OF mathe-
mates. and that the stand taken by the
United States. If consistently sustained,
morally binds our government to pro
tect all the American states, and act
ae arbitrator in all disputes
"America For the Americans
Tkis writer becomes very frank as
he proceeds: The early politics OF
Monroe were interpreted to mean
America for the Americans. but now
we are given to understand that this
cherished doctrine does not mean that
at all. but rather .America for the
North Americans Just as in ancient
-
Roman citizen. and in later times
before the British subject. so now must
everything give way before the citizen
Of tie United States. To control the
economic keys OF the world is impe
rialism: to grasp the economic keys OF
America is MOnToeism. The limit OF
imperialism i the Universe-the limit
Of Monroeism is America. The Span
ish-Cuban war gave the people of the
United States great advantages: their
victories transformed them into great
power. and the conference Of The
Hague did even more, because it recOg-
niZed the Monroe doctrine. Europe has
permitted the United States TO pro
claim TO the world, once for all, Amer
lea for the Americans.
asked one of our high officials what
he thought about the statement of the
Frenchman. He replied that it was
merely the opinion Of one man, but
that his remarks about America for
the Americans" was the wood with
the bark on.
Editors NOte-Mr. Haskin's Observ-
atoms on the Monroe doctrine will be
concluded in a final article which viii
be published next Sunday. The see
Ond installment viii deal with the
South American attitude 1t viii con-
tain statistics of d comparative nature,
as well as many incidents the writer
encountered in his travels)