The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-06-25

| able and just profit, by such reduc-
| ton depriving trusts and monopolies
of the power to extort from the Amer.
ican people, under shelter of American
law, prices higher than those charged
foreigners for identical articles.
Sixth-The restoration, as far as
possible. under prestige of the Democ-
racy--the historic and ever-existing
party of America-of the foreign
policy made sacred to the American
people by the memory of the precepts
and practices of George Washington
as president of these United States,
when advised and counseled by
Thomas jefferson, as his secretary of
| State-towit: the broad American
policy of friendly relations with all
nations and entangling alliances with
none" With this end in view, We
ought to secure, in as far as we can,
by treaty or by reciprocal relations,
| amicable, rather than retaliatory,
trade relations with the nations of
the world giving and taking for mu-
! tual benefit; obtaining and maintain
| ing, as far as we can, broader and
more profitable foreign and home mar
kets for our agricultural, mining, man
ufacturing and forest productions.
We ought especially as Democrats,
having the interest of the entire peo-
| pie in view, in contradistinction to
| the policy Of the Republican party,
which has made no sincere effort in
| that direction, to secure more friendly
| and mutual trade relations with the
Dominion of Canada and with our
children. who, driven by taxation at
home. and induced by fertile lands
and liberal laws there, are daily flock
! ing to her fields. 1t Is as absurd to
have high protective tariff wall be-
! tween the American State of Wash
| ington and the Province of British
| Columbia as it would be to have one
| between the States of Vermont and
New Hampshire, insofar. at least, as
mere commercial and industrial re.
suits are concerned
Seventh-The maintenance OF the
Monroe Doctrine in its full integrity as
conceived by Jefferson, announced by
Monroe and signally executed by
Grant In this connection we think
| 1t our duty to guard against European
| tcppression and colonization and
superimposition of monarchial In
stitutions the countries of the west
ern hemisphere. but we do not think
! It our duty. nor did Jefferson. Madison
Monroe of Jackson imagine it our
duty. under the Monroe Doctrine. as
the acting president of the United
States seems to conceive 1t to be, to
administer the affairs of Central and
South America.
We believe that the utterances of
the acting president of the United
in Lott In
Root upon the second anniversary Of
Cuban independence, in which he intl-
mated that we were, as a govern
ment, in some way Gods vicegerent to
correct and control those who "do not
conduct themselves we'll" and those
who "do not pay their obligations,
would have been reckless and unwise,
even if they had emanated from pri-
vate American citizen, but coming
from one acting as chief magistrate
OF the American Republic, they are
reprehensible in yet higher degree.
His yet more reckless assertion that
we have duty" in the western hemi-
sphere, which I'VE can not ignore"
to intervene governmentally wherever
there is brutal wrongdoing, or inn
potence which results in general
lcosening of the ties of civilized So
ciety, meets with our earnest disappro-
baton. Such position would be in
itself general loosening" OF those
tiles of civilized society" which bind
/ the nations in times of peace. at least
in common brotherhood. We espe-
cially resent the doctrine, which was
not born of Mr.. Monroe, but was born
of Mr.. Roosevelt, that 1t is, or can be,
the duty of the United States to con-
vert its army and navy into constab-
lulary for the purpose OF collecting
debts due by Central and South Amer
lean nations to European countries, or
even to the citizens of the American
republic If Imprisonment for indi-
vidual debts be wrong and barbarOus,
then surely the bombardment of cities.
inhabited by individuals, for the pur
pose of collecting government or indi-
vidual debts is still more wrong and
barbarous. lCommeFcialism, when TAX
| ing its chance in countries with un-
stable governments, does so with its
eyes open and generally fixes for itself
a profit proportionate to the risk, the
chief risk beng indeed these same
unstable political institutions and ir-
Irresponsible local governments. If it
chooses to make for itself that sort of
bed, let it lie in it. When the act
ing president says concerning our
dealings with other nations, "all that
we ask is that they govern themselves
well and be prosperous and orderly
Where this is the case they will find
helpfulness from u.s., we answer. that
we are not the guardians of the pros
perity and domestic order of other peo-
Piles and that so long as they neither
directly, nor indirectly. iniure us. nor
by their conduct drag MS into interna-
tional entanglements of their own
creating we have no more to do with
the internal administration OF their
affairs than they have to do with that
os ours.
Eighth-The preservation, insofar
as We can. of an open door for the
worlds commerce in the Orient. with
out unnecessary entanglements in Ori-
entail and European affairs. and with
out arbitrary, unlimited, irresponsible
and absolute government anywhere un-
der the Stars and Stripes, Ct the juris
diction Of the Union. We oppose. as
fervenfly as George Washington him
self did. ar indefinite, irresponsible,