The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-06-25

III "a SOAAo0
able and just profit, by such reduc-
ton depriving trusts and monopolies
of the power to extort from the Amer
lean 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 e~ver-ex1stlng
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 couuseled 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
nIacCuIl0R anu lOI cSI plOOuSAAOAo"
We ought especially as Democrats,
having the interest of the entire peo-
nla 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 u
children who, driven by taxation at
- - :-IyyaoI hu fnrtiln lands
and liberal laws there, are daily Hook
ing to her fields. 1t Is as absurd 10
have a high protective tariff wall pc
tween the American State OF WASH
ington and the Province of British
Columbia as 1t would be to have n
between the States of Vermont and
New Hampshire, insofar, at least, as
mere commercial and industrial re-
suits are concerned.
S~eventh-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
it u duty to guard against European
oppression and colonization ana
suDerimposition of monarchial In
situations the countries of the west
ern hemisphere; but we do not think
It u duty, no. 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 it to be, to
administer the affairs Of Central and
South America.
We believe that the utterances OF
the acting president of the United
States in his letter to ex-Secretary
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 10
correct and control those who do not
conduct themselves WELL" and those
who do not pay their obligations,
would have been reckless and unW1se,
even if they had emanated from a prl'
yate American citizen, but coming
from one acting as chief magistrate
OF the American Republic, they are
re~prehensible in a yet higher degree.
His yet more reckless assertion that
we have a duty" in the western hem1-
sphere. which eve a not ignore,
to intervene governmentally wherever
there Is brutal wrongdoing, or i'm
potence which results in a general
l~cosening of the ties of civilized so.
ciety, meets with our earnest disappro'
baton. Such a position would be IN
itself a general l%oosening" of those
tiles of civilized society" which bind
the nations in times of peace, at least
i'll a common brotherhood. We espe-
cialIy resent the doctrine, which was
not born of Mr.. Monroe, but was born
of Mr.. Roosevelt, that it is, or can be,
the duty of the United States to con
vert its army and navy into a constab
ularv for the purpose of collecting
debts due by Central and South Amer
lean nations to European countries, OF
even to the citizens of the American
republic. If Imprisonment for 1ndl
vidual debts be wrong and ~barbarous
then surely the bombardment Of cities
inhabited by individuals, for the pur
pose of collecting government Or 1ndi
vidual debts is still more wrong ano
barbarous. Commercialism, when tax
ing it's chance in countries with un
stable governments, does so with It's
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
responsible local governments. Ii II
chooses to make for itself that sort OF
a bed, let it lie in it. When the act
ing president says concerning oul
dealings with other nations, "all that
we ask is that they govern themselves
we'll and be prosperous and orderly
Where this is the case they will fne
helpfulness from US" we answer, thai
we are not the guardians of the pros
perity and domestic order OF other PEG
pies and that so long as they neither
directly, nor indirectly, injure us, mol
by their conduct drag us into interna
tional entanglements of their owl
creating we have no more to do will
the internal administration of theil
affairs than they have to do with tina
OF ours.
Eighth-The preservation, insofar
as we can, of an open door for thu
worlds in the Orient, with
out unnecessary entanglements in ORR
entail and European affairs, and with
out arbitrary, unlimited. irrespos sibl'
!, and absolute government anywhere I'm
der the Stars and Stripes, or the juris
diction of the Union. We oppose, a.
! fervent1y as George Washington him