The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-08-12
PRESIDENT AT CHAUTAUQUA
DISCUSSES FOREIGN AND DOMES-
 TIC POLICIES OF COUNTRY.

the Responsibilities Which It In voIyes-This COuntry's Duties To- ward the Smaller Republics of the New WorId-The Case of San DOmin- so-supervisory Control of Corporal tiOns.
 Chautauqua, N. Y, Aug ,11'-Presi- dent Roosevelt spoke here to-day be- fore an audience of 10000 enthusiastic people. He was greeted with long cheers and the Chautauqua salute. The text of his address follows:
 President RooseveIt's Address.
 To-day wish to speak to you on one feature of our national foreign policy and one feature of our national domes- tic policy.
 The Monroe Doctrine is not part of international law. But it is the funda- mental feature of our entire foreign policy so far as the western hemisphere is concerned, and it has more and more been meeting with recognition abroad. The reason why it is meeting with this recognition is because we have not al- lowed it to become fossilized, but have adapted our construction of it to meet the growing, changing needs of this hemisphere. Fossilization, of course' means death, whether to an individual, a government or a doctrine.
 It is out of the question to claim a right and yet shirk the responsibility for exercising that right. When we announce policy such as the Monroe Doctrine we thereby commit ourselves to accepting the consequences of the policy, and these consequences from time to time alter
 Let us look for a moment at what the Monroe Doctrine really is. It forbids the territorial encroachment of non- American powers on American soil. Its purpose is partly to secure this nation against seeing great military powers obtain new footholds in the western hemisphere, and partly to secure to our felloW-republics south of us the chance to develop along their own lines with out being oppressed or conquered by American powers. As we have grown more and more powerful our ad- vocacy of this doctrine has been re- ceived with more and more respect; but what has tended most to give the doc Urine standing among the nations is our growing willingness to show that we not only mean what we say and are prepared to back it up, but that we mean to recognize our obligations to foreign peoples no less than to insist upon our. own rights.
 We can not permanently adhere to the Monroe Doctrine unless we succeed in making it evident in the first place that we do not intend to treat it in any shape or way as an excuse for aggran- dizement on our part at the expense ot the republics to the south of us; sec- ond, that we do not intend to permit il to be used by any of these republics as a shield to protect that republic from the consequences of it's own misdeeds against foreign nations; third, that in- asmuch as by this doctrine we prevent other nations from interfering on this side of the water, we shall ourselves in good faith try to help those of oul sister republics, which need such help upward toward peace and order.
 As regards the first point we mus recognize the fact that in some Soutt American countries there has beer much suspicion lest we should interpre the Monroe Doctrine in some way inim icals to their interests. Now let it b. understood once for all that no just ant orderly government on this continent has anything to fear from us. Ther, are certain of the republics south of us which have already reached such { point of stability, order and prosperity that they are themselves, although a. yet hardly consciously, among the guarantors of this doctrine. No stable and growing American republic Wishe to see some great non-American mili tary power acquire territory in it .leighborhood. It is the interest of al of us on this continent that no sucl event should occur, and in addition tt our own republic there are now already republics in the regions south of u: which have reached a point of prosper ity and power that enables them to b considerable factors in maintaining this doctrine which is so much to thu advantage of all of us. It must be un derstood that under no circumstance will the United States use the Monro, Doctrine as a cloak for territorial az gression. Should any of our neighbors no matter how turbulent, how disre gardful of our rights, finally get int such a position that the utmost limit of our forbearance are reached, all tn, people south of us may rest assures that no action will ever be taken say what is absolutely demanded by ou self-respect; that this action will no take the form of territorial aggran dizement on our part, and that it vii only be taken at all with the most ex treme reluctance and not without hay