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AMERICAN POLICY =
CALLED OBSOLETE
Columbia Professor Tells Germans
Monroe Doctrine Not Needed.
EMPEROR WILLIAM IS PRESENT
Text Of Speech of Professor Burgess
at the University Of Berlin
Great Comment Caused in Eu-
rome on tho Statements Made.

Berlin.-The text OF the speech
delivered by Professor Burgess, dean
of Columbia University, the first in
cumbent of the Theodore Roosevelt:
professorship of American history
and instruction at the University Of
Berlin, has been printed by the uni
versity press and widely distributed
in official and scholastic circles.
There was some curiosity to see pre-
cisely what Professor Burgess said
regarding the Monroe Doctrine being
out of date, upon the obsoleteness Of
the high protective tariff and on the
United States interests being pro-
NOTED by the extensive German emf
grafton to South America. H.
AS the address was made in the
presence Of the Emperor and fire.
quent references were made In TT to
President Roosevelt the impression
appears to have been made that the
President desired to send a message
to Germany on those subjects. Some
of the papers give prominence to Pro-
fessor Burgess remarks concerning
the Monroe Doctrine, seemingly at
tributing significancei to it. A trans
lation Of the. passage in question fol-
lows:
"In my first meeting with the
President after my appointment to
this professorship it pleased him to
address me as IN ambassador OF
peace, friendship and civilization. He
gave proof through this that he rec
ognized and appreciated the great
idea which His Majesty, the highly
gifted and magnanimous German
Emperor, gave to the world January
i, 1905. It is the opinion Of the
President, it is the opinion Of my
c%ountrymen in general, that this idea
is the most pregnant that has. come
forth in our time, and that it gives
evidence Of the great sense Of culture
and extraordinary political wisdom
Of its mighty author. The execution,
Of this idea makes'it possible to, sub.
ject questions Of the highest impor-
lance which. can, scarcely be touched
upon in a diplomatic way to the most
fundamental examination and the
most friendly consideration.
There are, for example, two doc
trines in the policy of the United
States which are regarded almost
as holy doctrines, the. discussion OF
which may not even be proposed by
a foreign power without risk of
awaking hostility in the United
States. These are the high protect
i've tariff theory and the Monroe Doc
trine. Our politicians do not appear
to have the least notion that both Of
these doctrines are most obsolete and
that the reconstruction of European
States and their constitutions and
the acceptance by the United States
itself of It's position as a world power
have made them both nearly sense
less"
Professor Burgess said he regard
ed the discussion of the protective
tariff automatically between the Uni
ted States and any foreign GOVERN
ment as futile, but the new ambassa-i
doris of peace and culture would be
wholly free from limitations such as
bound the dIp1omatists. They would
be able to speakafrom their own con-
victions Without fear Of being pun
ished or recalled, or, what was still
more imports- without fear of dis
turbinE Or thing Friendships.
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