The Washington herald., 1909-11-22
Monroe DOCTRINE.

Editor The Washington Heraldi
We might expect ignorance about the
Monroe doctrine from many different
sources In our country and reap an album
dant harvest IN our expectations. but the
recent editorial in the New York Herald
upon that subject startles us.
For the old classic New York Herald 20
betray such odious ignorance as that this
country would be bound TO protect Eng
land in Canada IN the eveutuality Of 4
war between her and Germany or any
other continental power is mlsunder-
standing Of the Monroe doctrine that no
cross roads newspaper IN this country
could be expected TO for one moment
hint at
Any child knows that Canada Is on
this continent and the child would also
know that Canada is a colony Of Eng
land and has been SO before we had a
United States as a free and independent
country. As an appendage. it is Eng
land. and when England declares war
against Germany or any other country,
Canada, Australia. New Zealand, India.
and all other English colonies have viz
tua!ly declared war and are actually con-
ciAeAEu at var VIII IllEldlQ enemy as
England is, or as Alaska, Texas, or Maine
would be were we 70 declare war against
any other country. This is so plain, so
self-evident that It is wonderful that
great newspaper like the New York Her
aid should assert the contrary. The Mon
roe doctrine IS more talked OF and less
understood than any other one thing ex-
tant. But this position of the New York
Herald is absolutely the most dismal and
inexcusable display of II that has yet
fallen under our notice. Ii is ignorance
all along the line, il is broad, deeD. wide.
high, profound. huge, and immense, and
any ten-year-old child that would betray
an equal ratio should be punished Sc
verely.
II the New York Herald's postulates
were true. our duty would be TO declare
war against any nation that England had
declared war against IN order to make
Canada secure for England, while II we
were ourselves to declare war against
Canada, England and Canada and the
whole English empire would fight US 10
retain Canada. Where can we look for a
more dismal. hideously dismal, PROPOSE
ton than this?
The Monroe doctrine has suffered by
not being understood by our greatest
Observation-Disclosures Blaine, Evarts, and
a host OF others. We have not enforced
II as we should have done. England has
repudiated il over and over again, and has
ignored it and acted with that lordly in
difference toward il that has made II
look contemplate. No President we have
yet had has had the courage 20 make her
give up a theft of territory of a strip of
country between Guatemala and Mexico
that she made during our civil war md
gave the name of British Honduras TO.
To IS a good doctrine. and as long as we
can maintain it. It matters very little 10
us whether others recognize il or not We
should vigorously enforce it against all
Corners
AS for protecting Canada for England.
we should have Canada for ourselves, and
we should form an alliance with Germany
now TO that end. Such occasions come. at
intervals of centuries, and any nation
that Is not awake 70 them and allows
them 10 pass unimproved loses an oppor-
tunity that will count against her TO her
sorrow.
We should be the dominating, the SUI
Dreme power Of the world but II we
shrink from making ourselves that which
our pGissance places at our disposal, then,