The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-08

meaning of the Monroe doctrine and
mat 1t IS our duty to interfere in Cen
tral and South America, if foreign
governments attempt to enforce their
rights by this method. If the citizens
Of foreign governments are subjected
10 tOrtuOuS invasion of their rights
with the cOnnivance of any of the re-
pubhcs of Central or South America
and after every effort made to obtain
indemnity without avail foreign gov
ernments proceed TO place the revenues
Of the offending government under
their control so as to obtain redress, L
deny that there is any seizure of terri
tory within the meaning of the Monroe
doctrine to invoke our interference"
Mr.. Rayner referred to the seizure
of Corinto, Nicaragua, by Great Brit
ain to compel the payment of the debt
Which did not summon the spectre of
Monroe. THE new Monroe doctrine,
he said, sis strictly a financial doctrine.
The theme is money, the legend is
cash and the foreign hOrdes who are
advancing into the state department,
are a syndicate of relentless mercen-
aries and money lenders who traffic in
calamity, look upon national mlSfor-
tunes as so much merchandise and
VINO Tor a Venai profit would call a
vendue and auction to the highest bid
der the liberties of mankind
Quoting from a speech of Secretary
Taft in which he said this government
is to take temporary possession of
Santo Domingo as a receiver, Mr..
Rayner declared he found no clause in
the constitution empowering the gov
ernment to act as a receiver, and con-
tinued:
A New Portfolio Needed.
'As secretary of war, upon frequent
occasions ex-officio secretary of state,
constructive governor general of the
Philippines and, in the absence of the
president, acting president of the
United States, I am quite sure that Mr..
Taft has not the time to act as receiver
for all the impecuniOuS people on this
earth. We will therefore evidently
have to provide a new portfolio to be
known as the department of foreign
receiverships and a new secretary to
be known as the secre tary of foreign
bankruptcy He urged the president
had made a grave error in supposing
he had right to expect a treaty before
the treaty itself is ratified, and added: :
Il would like it once and forever un-
derstood that no treaty with foreign ma
tiOns and no compact, convention or
protocol in the nature of a treaty shall
be performed and carried into practical
effect and no custom house shall be
seized, no revenues administered, no
status quo established by any minister
or military commander until the act of
the agent is confirmed by the principal
and the negotiations of the president
are submitted to the only body under
the constitution that has the right to
reject or ratify them.''
Mr.. Rayner in concluding said:
Il am win the slave in every darkened
| corner of the globe, where he is strug-
CLING to be free and I hope the day may
come when every government that is
built upon the bowed bodies of its sub
jectS may diSintegrate, and that upon its
ruins republican institutions may arise.
However. Mr.. President, as deeply as
love my country, with all the devotion
T would lay upon her altars, with a
fervid reverence for her flag wherever
its colors greet the eye, I would rather
see that flag lowered and trampled upon
! than used as a pirates ensign and raised
not as an emblem of honor, but as an
/ Instrument of terror and oppression to
the helpless and enfeebled races of man
/ kind"
When the presidents message on
/ Panama was read Mr.. German took
| the floor and said he hoped congress
would give the president the investi-
/ cation he asked for.
The letter and reports were re-
/ ferred to the committee on the inter-
Mr.. Rayner during his speech
branched off from the Santiago ques-
ton and denounced in emphatic terms
/ the Hebrew prosecutions in Russia
In the House.
Washington, Jan. Representa-
! tive Shepherd Tex today introduced
/ a resolution providing for the ap-
! pointment of a committee of Repub-
| lican and Democratic members of the
house to investigate the "recent vio-
/ lent expulsion of an American mother
! from the White House offices and
grounds by executive officials and en-
/ ployes while she was seeking an audi
! ence with the president of the United
! States"
| Legislation for the District of
! Columbia had the right of way under
| the rules of the house today and the
few bills on the calendar from the
| district committee were disposed of
before debate on the Philippine tariff
| bill was resumed.