Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-12
Given Ovation by 10000
People at C'hautaBqua.
Government Supervision Of All
Great Corporations
And Strict Backing Up Of the Intent and
Purposes Of Monroe Doctrine.

Chautauqua, N. Y, Aug. n.-Presf
dent Roosevelt arrived here at 8.45 A
NJ, Friday, on a special car over thu
| Chautauqua Traction Lines. The rail-
| come down in torrents during the early
morning hours, and the hills about thu
| lake reverberated with almost cOntin'
uous rolls of thunder. The Chautauqua
committee waited upon the President
| at 7.3O and escorted him to a private
| trolley car in which they rode to the
assembly grounds.
AS early as o'clock, thousands OF
people had assembled at the amphithe.
alter to secure seats. The route over
which the President came to the
grounds had not been made public and
only a few hundred people greeted him
when the car reached the road gate.
The President was entertained at
breakfast by the trustees. At 1925 the
trustees and representative leaders
from western New York, were present
ed and the President held an informal
reception and greeted many of the
guests we'll known to him.
Through a line of 500 boys and girls,
the President was escorted to the as
sembly amphitheater his way being
strewn with flowers. When he appeared
on the platform he was greeted by TO-
900 people with cheers and the Chau-
taulua salute. Bishop Vincent intro
duced President Roosevelt to the great
audience in a few simple sentences.
The President was given an ovation.
He spoke as follows:
Today I wish to speak to you on one
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and one feature of our nat: onal 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 il to become foSsi!iZed, but have
adapted our construction OF it to meet
the growing, changing needs of this
hemisphere. Fossiliz alton, of coursa.
means death, whether to ar individual,
Il government, or 4 doctrine.
II is out Of the question to claim j
right and yet shirk the responsibility
for exercising that right. When We
announce IL 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. 1t for
bids 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, ard partly to
secure to our fellow-repub,ics south Of
us the chance to develop along their
own lines without being oppressed or
conquered by non-American powers.
AS we have grown more and more pow
erful our advocacy Of this doctrine has
been received with more and more re-
spect; but what has tended most to
give the doctrine standing among the
nations is our growing willingness to
show that we not only mean what we
say and are prepared 10 back it up, but
that We mean to recognize our obliga-
lions 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 of
the republics to the south of us:
second, that we do not intend to permit
it 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
2smuch 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 our sis
ter republics, which need such help,
upward toward peace and order.
AS regards the first point we must
recognize the fact that in some South
American countries there has been
much suspicion lest we should interpret
the Monroe Doctrine i'll some way
inimical to their interests. Now let it
be understood once for all that no just
and orderly government on this CONT
nent has anything to fear from US.
There are certain of the republics south
OF us which have already reached such
a point of stability, order. and pros
rerity that they are themselves, al
though as yet hardly consciously,
among the guarantors of this doctrine.
No stable and growing American re-
public wishes to see some great non
American military power acquire terri
tory in its neighborhOOd. 1t is the in