The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-03-08

MIlblt PURPOSE lS W llluht US ONtIlOIu.
guardian, curator and trustee of the
so called republic of Santo Domingo.
The treaty Is simply rehash of the
rnodus vivend which President Roose-
welt established with his great and
farseeing' friend President Morales.
His friend was also feet footed. as Is
demonstrated by the fact that he has
taken himself TO foreign parts. leaving
his great and farseeing friend in the
White House with the bag to hold.
The enforced colonists of Botany bay,
to enliven the tedium of their banish-
ment, got them mp a play, two lines
of which ran thus:
True patriots we, for be 1t understood
We left country for our country's
good.
Without any exaggeratiOn .whatso-.
ever, the ex-bandit president Morales
could appropriate those lines as his
own. They fit his case like a glove.
AS Morales vanishes into space Presi-
dent Roosevelt Is in the sad situation
of Lord Ulln on u celebrated and uli-
happy occasion, for "he is left lament
+ ing"
OF course the hasty departure of
Morales from his country, notwith-
standing the modus vivendi and not
withstanding our protecting gunboats,
was ludicrous performance. but the
attempt of the Washington administra-
tion to assume a suZerainty over San
to Domingo, first without Il treaty and
then with a treaty, is the most sense
less, un-American, revolutionary and
dangerous thing ever attempted by any
American administration.
Why should we set mp as universal
constables? If we take over to our
selves the task of policing Santo Do
mingo and of collecting and disbursing
her revenues, why not do the same for
Haiti? The reasons are Just rs strong
and persuasive in one case as the other.
IL Santo Domingo and Haiti why not
also set up as guardians. curators con-
stables and guarantors of all the seeth-
ing, bubbling. wrangling. jangling
bankrupt republics of South and Cen
trail America? There Is absolutely. no
end to our work, worry and danger if
we elect ourselves universal constable
for the western hemisphere.
But it seems that under the policy Of
the big stick and little wisdom we are
not even TO confine our consta bleship
to the western hemisphere. for Ameri
can commissioners are now in Morocco
mixing up with African statesmen, dip
ping into European Quarrels about AT
rican spoils and at the same time the
administration is massing troops and
munitions of war in the Philippines in
order to play con stable over China. At
this rate the day is not distant when
our arms will glitter from China to
Peru. but also when the bones of our
soldiers will lie rotting in every coun-
try not possessed of an army and navy
big enough to warn us off and keep us
out. That may be an alluring prospect
to the Don Quixotes of America, but
1t is slckening prospect to sober mind
ed people who desire to see this great
republic endure forever. 1t certainly is
not an enhancing vision to the fathers
and mothers of the land whose sons
will die in foreign and faraway ceun-
tries or to the American taxpayers who
must pay the fiddler in this wild dance
Of death.
The Democratic senators who are
fighting these wild and un-American
projects tooth aud nail deserve and
will receive the heartiest thanks of all
lovers of the republic.
May their wise, patriotic md heroic
efforts once more vitalize the doctrine
of peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations. entangling alli-
ances with none." and substitute 1t for
the bizarre and dangerous jingoism
now in vogue.