Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-03
Mexico and the Monroe Doctrine.

The Mexican Herald reads in, the Presi-
dents recent message and in Elihu Root S
recent speech in New York Interpretations
of the Monroe doctrine which it character
ICES as an affront to all American
states. and it replies rather tartly on the
subject. 1t complains of a hectoring tone
and declares that conditions in Latin-Amer-
lea are so much improved now that those
countries need no warnings or lecturings
from any source as to how they should con-
duct themselves toward the outside world.
The big stick. it asserts is fourished over
them much more vigorously and Extensively
than at the transatlantic powers
President Diaz. however is evidently not
disturbed, one may gather from the fol-
lowing extract from his reference to the
United States in his latest report to the
Mexican congress: --7st-
I'm regard to the United States it is
gratifying to me to state that the ambaSSa-
dor of Mexico in Washington received from
the American government the balance of
the money paid for the fraudulent We'll and
La Abra claims, said money being returned
by virtue of an act of the Congress of the
American Union.
L consider it unnecessary to enter into
further details which, moreover, are al
ready we'll known. In any case they would
only serve to emphasize what the executive
has more than once said in regard to the
elevated spirit of justice and rectitude gov
erning the entente between the two coun-
tries.
This sentiment has not undergone the
smallest alteration and was not in any way
affected by the change of administrative
personnel in the neighboring republic as
consequence of the monStrous crime, which,
amid the Reproduction of mankind struck
down one of the most illustrious statesmen
of the republic north of the Bravo
This means that the harmonious rela-
tons existing between our republic and it's
northern neighbOr, cordially conducted by
their. respective governments, are based
principally on the self-respecting esteem
which the two peoples entertain for one
another.
This comes both justly and appropriately
from President Diaz for the reasoning is
neither far fetched nor fine spun. which
entities us to claim a liberal share in that
remarkable mans extraordinary career and
success We shaped the events which gave
him his opportunity. 1t was our assertion
of the spirit of the Monroe doctrine which
freed Mexico from French bayonets and
enabled the Mexican people to set up their
own government Macmillan was mere
hgurehead. and had he remained would
have been forced to play any game
Louis Napoleon might have ordered.
But We fiourished our big stick, and had at
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our meaning than this hemisphere had ever
seen under arms before. Napoleon with
drew his props, Macmillan FELL and the
Mexicans set to work to build for them
selves in the spirit conforming to govern
mental aims on this side of the Atlantic
Mexico's advance as a nation. in the past
thirty-fve years has filled Americans with
both pride and pleasure, and our admira-
ton of General Diaz could not be greater
Mexico and her prosperity are glorious
fruits of the Monroe doctrine