The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-08
|RAYNER TAKES UP
MONROE DOCTRINE
Maryland Senator Declares the
President Has Set Up New
Dictum.

Washington, Jan. S.-Santo Domin-
gan affairs~ and their relation to the
United State swere under discussion in
the senate today. Mr.. Tillmwan s res
olution requesting the president to in
form the senate as to the existing
status of Santo Domingo, which was
offered on Thursday last and went over
under the rules, was called up and made
the subject Of debate.
Senator Rayner Of Maryland took up
the general subject Of our relations
with the nations to the south.
Mr.. Rayner declared he had no power
or purpose to bind his colleagues to the
acceptance of any views he expressed.
r. cit is not my inte'ntion, said Mr..
Rayner, Gin anything that may say,
to cast the slightest reflection upon the
state. While the questions at issue re-,
quire knowledge Of constitutional and
international jurisprudence, we all
agree that the late lamented occupant
Of this portfolio upon the field Of diplo-
macy was at least the peer Of the bril-
liant line who preceded him and who
have left the impress Of their genius
stamped upon the institutions of the re-
public, and insofar as the president is
concerned, feeling that he has BEEN ac-
tuated by the best and highest impulses
in the whole course Of his administra-
tion and believing in his sincerity and
| integrity OF purpose, no carplng crltl-
| cis1n shall come from me even In cases
| where he may have challenged prece-
! dent and strained authority to secure
4 what in his judgment appeared to be a
benefit and advantage to his country.
subscribes to Monroeism.
| ''I subscribe to every sentiment of
the Monroe doctrine, that is the gen.
uine doctrine, the old text and not the
revised edition, the original document
and, not the counterfeit presentment
~stThe men who over three-quarters
! Of century ago rang a proclamation
| thru the world that at that time con
1 vulsed the political fabric Of continen
tai Europe, would never, if living al
this hour, admit the construction that il
now placed upon it, and its founders
and sponsors would never recognize il
in its deformed and distorted shape
When the president issues manifesto
that is the product Of his own genius, il
| ought to be circulated under the name
] Of its author, and in vindication of the
memory Of the dead and in defense Of
their rights. protest against the USE
of their names TO any. instrument tha'
any doctrine. that was never promul
! gated by their authority.
| Not q National Policy. =. =.
Mr.. Rayner denied that the presiden
was enforcing national policy ant
quoted from Jefferson, Adams and Mon
roe to sustain his contention. 1t wa
never intended, he said, that we shoult
assume g. protectorate, political or fnan
I 1cial over the islands Of the Caribbean
or the Latin American republics. Re
ferring to the comments of Jefferson
on the Monroe message, he asked:
Was he contemplating the probable
bombardment Of Caribbean port tt
enforce the payment of q usurer'
bondg Was his mind perplexed by :;
vision of a war conducted by bailiff
and constables and collectors, in tn
:. interest Of foreign pawnbrokers, who's
weapons are pledges and debenture
and who, struggling with each othe