Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1904-06-23
Mississippi Democrats Instruct for the Emil
nent New York Jurist.
Document Deals Chiefly With National Issues, and Meets the
Approval Of the RockRibbed Democrats Of the State.
Most Notable Gathering IN Years-Gov Var
damans Course in His Endeavor to En-
force the Law Heartily Endorsed.

policy Oh IrleDuly TeidtlOHS Will al
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 a high protective tariff wall be-
tween the American State OF Wash
| ington and the Province of British
Columbia as 1t 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
| Seyenth-The maintenance or 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 our duty to guard against European
depression and colonization and
lsuperimposition 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 1t 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 or
the acting president of the United
States in his letter to ex-Secretary
Root upon the second anniversary OF
Cuban independence, in which he inti-
mated that we were, as 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 a duty" in the western hemi-
sphere, which I'VE can not ignore,
to intervene governmentally wherever
there is brutal wrongdoing, or i'm
potence which results in general
lloosening of the ties of civilized So
ciety, meets with our earnest disappro-
baton. Such a position would be in
itself general loosening' of those
ties of civilized society" which bind
the nations in times of peace. at least
in a common brotherhood. We espe-
cially 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-
ulary for the purpose of collecting
debts due by Central and South Amer
ican nations to European countries, or
even to the citizens of the American
republic IL Imprisonment for indi.
vidual debts be wrong and barbarous,
|, then surely the bombardment of cities,
) inhabited by individuals, for the pur-
rose of collecting government or indi-
vidual debts is still more wrong and
barbarous. Commercialism, when TAX
, ing its chance in countries with un
: stable governments, does so with its
eyes open and generally fixes for itself
profit proportionate to the risk, the
chief risk beng indeed these same
! unstable political institutions and ir
responsible local governments. II il
chooses to make for itself that sort oi
a bed, let it lie in it. When the act
ing president says concerning ouI
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 us. we answer, that
we are not the guardians of the pros
perity and domestic order of other peo
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 own
creating we have no more TO do Will
the internal administration of theii
affairs than they have to do with thai
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 Orr
entail and European affairs, and with
out arbitrary, unlimited, irresponsible
and absolute government anywhere un
, der the Stars and Stripes, or the juris
tdiction of the Union. We oppose, a.
, fervently as George Washington him
tself did. an indefinite, irresponsible
: discretionary absolutism and policy o
colonial exploitation. no matter wher'
, or by whom invoked or exercised; w
believe with Thomas Jefferson ant
, John Adams that no government ha
a right to make one set OF laws TO
|, those at home" and another and
different set of laws. absolute in thei
!, character. for those in the colonies.
All men under the American flag ar,
entitled 10 the protection of the insti
/, ltutions whose emblem the flag is; i
, thew are inherently unfit for these in
stitutions then they are inherently un
) fl to be members of the American bod,
! polite. Wherever there may exist ;
!. people incapable of being governed
!. under American laws, in eonsonane'
: with the American Constitution, tn
:. territory of that people ought not L
n be part of the American domain. BE
4 lieving this. We believe that We ough
to do ultimately for the Filipinos wha
: We have already done for the Cubans
= The example is there; it is a worth,
2 one: it constitutes bright page il
\ the history of our country; II tells tn
a story of American courage, magma
s nimity and justice: the Democracy pre-
q poses to follow that example and it |
J. our intent, as soon as can be don
V wisely and safely for the Elliptic
4 themselves. end afte: aricable q,