Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-11-29
.ELIHU ROOT
ADDRESSES THE TRANs-MIssIs-
sIPPl COMMERCIAL. CONGRESS
AT KANAs CITY.
The MONROE DOCTRINE
No Holy Alliance Exists, but Other
Emergencies May Arise, Neees-
stating the Enforcing Of the
Principle.

Kansas City, Mo.-Before the Trans
Mississippi Commercial congress here,
Elihu Root, secretary OF state, dellv.
cred his second speech in this city
within two days. Secretary Roots
subject was Commercial Union with
South American republics"
The Monroe Doctrine.
In reference to the Monroe doctrine
Mr.. Root said:
"The relations between the United
States and South America have been
chiefly political rather than CONNER
cial or personal. In the early days
of the South American struggle for
independence, the eloquence of Henry
Clay awakened in the American peo-
pie generous sympathy for the
| patriots of the south as for brethren
struggling in the common cause of lib
erty. The clear-eyed, judicious diplo-
macy of Richard Rush, the American
minister at the court of St. James, eff
fected a complete understanding with
Great Britain for concurrent action in
opposition to the designs of the Holy
partition of the southern continent
among the great powers of continental
Europe. The famous declaration of
Monroe arrayed the organized and rap
| Oily increasing power of the United
States as an obstacle to European in
reference and made it forever plain
that the cost of European aggression
would be greater than any advantage
which could be won even by successful
| aggression.
THE great declaration was not the
chance expression of the opinion or
the feeling of the moment; it crystal
llzed the sentiment for human liberty
and human rights which has saved
American idealism from the demorali-
cation of narrow selfshness, and has
given to American democracy its true
world power in the virile potency of
great example. 1t responded to the
instinct of self-preservation in an in
tensely practical people. 1t was the
result of conference with Jefferson
and Madison and John Quincy Adams
and John c. Calhoun and William
Wirt-a combination of political wis
dom, experience and skill not easily
surpassed. The particular circum-
stances which led to the declaration no
longer exist; no Holy Alliance now
threatens to partition South America;
no European colonization of the west
coast threatens to exclude us from the
Pacific. But those conditions were
merely the occasion for the declara-
ton of a principle of action. Other
occasions for the application of the
principle have arisen since; 1t needs
no prophetic vision to see that other
occasions for it's application may arise
hereafter The principle declared by
Monroe is as wise an expression Of
sound political judgment today, as
truthful a representation of the senti-
ments and instincts Of the American
people today, as living in its force as
an effective rule of conduct whenever
occasion shall arise, as it was on the
I'd of December, 1928"
Blaine's Policy
Mr.. Root strongly urged the policy
inaugurated by James G. Blaine in re-
gard to trade with South American
countries. Mr.. Blaine was in adj
vance of his time" said Mr.. Root. "In
1881 and 1889 neither had the United
States reached point where it could
turn it's energies away from its own
internal development and direct them
outward towards the development of
foreign enterprises and foreign trade,
nor had the South American countries
reached the stage of stability in gov.
eminent and security for property,
necessary to their industrial develop
ment. Now, however, the time has
come; both North and South America
have grown up to Blaine's policy; the
production, the trade, the capital, the
enterprise of the United States have
before them the opportunity to fol-
low, and they are free to follow, the
pathway marked out by the far-sighted
craftsmanship of Blaine for the growth
of. America, North and South, IN the
peaceful prosperity of a mighty COM
merce."
Between all the principal South
American ports and England, Ger
many, France, Spain, Italy lines OF
swift and commodious steamers ply
regularly. There are five subsidized
hrst-class mail and passenger lines
between Buenos Ayres and Europe;
there is no line bCtween Buenos Ayres
and the United States. Within the
past two years the German, the Eng
lish and the Italian lines have been
replacing their old steamers with new
and 'swifter steamers of modern
construction, accommodation and ca
pacity.
In the year ending June 3d. 1905,
there entered the port of Rio de
Janelro steamers and sailing vessels
dying the nag OF Austria-Hungary 12O,
20 49,. 10 - ~. lns na Ar..o...