The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-01-12
qAYNER SAYS IT IS
ROOSEVELT DOCTRINE
Senator Declares the Monroa
Doctrine Has Been Dis
torted by President.
A SENATE RIGHTS
lie Said the President Had Mo Right to
Seize Customs Houses or Attempt
to Carry Out a Treaty Not
Vet Ratified.

Washington, ID. c., jar. s.-A stirring,
speech was delivered by Senator Raynerl
in the United States senate today upon
the Monroe doctrine and the San Domlnso'
Incident.
1T is not my intention" said Mr.. Ray
uer, lin anything that l may say. 70 cast
the slightest reflection upon the aofnlhus-,
tration of the department OF state. -
II subscribe to every sentiment Oh .no
Monroe doctrine, that IS the seiiulnsi
doctrine. the old text and not the revised,
.dition tte original document and not theA
counterfeit presentment.
The men who over three quarters OF y
century ago rang a proclamation
the world that at that time conVelseu tnoi
political fabric of continental LaiopG.l
would never. if living at this hour, ad1nls
| The conservation that is now placed upon
ii. and. it's founders and sponsors woulol
1eyer recognize it in it's deforned and dis,
;orted shape.
Senator Hayner then denominated thes
present policy as the Roosevelt doetrlnc
which he said embodied the loilowiisi
propositions:
First. the only way, except by actuai
war. that one nation can forcibiy colieceI
a money claim against another, IS pyJ
blockade. bombardment or the SEIZURE oli
It's custom houses and under the accep.eo,
aw of nations foreign governments arei
within their rights, If they choose 10 eAe.-l
cisc it, when they actively intervene lhi
sppnort of the contractual claims of their,
subjects.
second. the United States then becomes
q part in interest, so far as Ameflcani
states are concerned, because under thel
Monroe doctrine it could not see any
European power seize and occupy lhef
.~erritory OF any of these republics.
Disputes Supposed Theory.
.,rr..a. ITO G,c+ ,,ronosifinu - continued
Mr.. Rayner, II respectively deny thaci
foreign nations are within their rights
when they actively intervene in IaNor OF
he contractual claims of tnclr subJects.t
With great Difference to the president th1si
proposition is at war with the elementary
principles of international law. there arci
some exceptions that sustain his statements
i'm countries where anarchy and 4 failures
to administer justice prevail, but With an
| exception in cases that are sui generls thei
rule is an infleXible and unbendlns one,i
precisely to the contrary tenor OF what the
president states it to be. In tins country1
nearly every secretary of state, includingi
| Madison, Adams, Clay, Webster, Calhoun,i
| Marcy, Seward and Blaine, have given the
broad denial to suggestions OF TINS char
| acter, so that until these new doctrines
was promulgated it was considered a pes-l
| tulate and a fundamental maxim of In,
ternational law that governments would,
y \ III NiiIai W SAi(
| claims of their citizens, except through.
the channels of diplomacy and the proper
presentation of the claims by their minis
:ers."
''The new Monroe doctrine" he said, isl
strictly a financial doctrine. The theme isl
money the legend is cash and the foreign
aordes who are advancing into the state
department are a syndicate of relentless
ll%ercenaries and money lenders who
traffic N calamity, look upon national
lrisfortunes as so much merchandise and
W no for a venal profit would call a venduel
ard auction to the highest bidder the lib
el.ies of mankind"
Criticises Taft. Too.
Quoting from a speech of Secretary Taft,
IN which he said this government is to-
tax temporary possession of San Domin-i
go AS .. receiver, Mr.. Rayner declared he
found no clause in the constitution en-.
pow ering the government to act as a re-,
ceiver. Ht /
He urged the president had made a.,
grave error in s%upposing he had a right
20 expect a treaty before the treaty ITSELF
is ratified, and added:
Al would like it once and forever UNDER
stood that no treaty with foreign nations.
and nc compact, convention or protocol in
the nature of a treaty shall be performed
and CT rried into practical effect and mo-
customs houses shall be seized, nor rev.,
.nues administered no status quo estab-,
ished by any minister or military COM
mandc1 until the act of the agent is con-
{irlned by tile principal and the ncgotia-t
tons OF the president are submitted to the
only body under the constitution that has
he right to reject or ratify them
Mr.. Rayner in concluding said:
Il am with the slave in every darkenedl
corner of the globe where he is struggling
10 be free, and | hope the day may come,
when every government that is built upon!
The bowed bodies of its subjects may dis,
l%ntegrate, and that upon it's ruins repub-
tcan institutions may arise. However.
Mr.. President, as deeply as I love my,
country, with all the devotion / would Law
apon her affairs, with a fcrvid reverence
;or her flag wherever it's colors greet the
wye. i would rather see that flag lowered,
,nd trampled upon than used as a nj
Nate's ensign and raised not as an en-
5!em of honor, but as an instrument of
s,rror and oppression to the helpless and
9afeebled races of mankind
Rayner, during his speech, branched or
rom the San Domingo question and de-
a%ounced in emphatic terms, Hebrew per-
:ccution in Russia.
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