The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-24
IN A WAR WITH GERMANY, SAYS
THE LONDON SPEC
TATOK.
MUST CONTROL
troI Monroe Tenet Would
Suffer-But U. S. is
Neutral.

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press this week over tie attitude that
America might take in the threatened
struggle betwecl Great britain and
Germany,
The New York correip ipCnient of
the Times explains, on the author ty
of the Springfield Republican, that
tho United States could only rCma n
sternly neutral in sucn crisis and
that America could regard only with
section of the English press that she
could be reckoneI even as a moral
ALLY of Britain Thos> representa-
tions have moved tho Spectator to-
devote its leading article today to
this subject
1t uses language when It itsclf de
clares may seem that OF Dlunt and
brutal frankness. 1t says
I'VE venture to say that the states
men of America realize a; this mo
ment and that later on the bulk cf
the American people will rca'ize and,
last of all, not impossibly even the
Springfield Republican, that it would
he little short Cf nalCnai disaster
if the command of the sea were lest
by Britain and were to pass into
German hands
Saws We Need Britain.
America, in spite of ner iremeu
dous coast line and he possessions
of the great archipelago of the Phi in
pines and, still more In spite of great
interests in Spanish SCUM Amer ca
anI Brazil which are defined in the
Monroe Doctrine, has always be n
able to acquiesce with easy mind IN
Eritish command of the sea, The
reasons are plain.
I'm the first place, America has al
ways realized that we could not us"
our command of the sea in a way
which could greatly damage her, for
the very good reason that Canada is
a part of the British Empire In
Canada the Americans feel that they
possess a hostage which secures
them from any exercise OF the power
that comes from the command of the
sea. which they would find intoler-
able.
Further, American statesmen
know that we are. in reality, silent
partners with them in the Monroe
Doctrine, though occasionally that
that doctrine has been waved in orr
face by the professional twisters of
the lions tail
1T was British statesman. Can
ming, who originally suggested the
formulation of the Monroe Doctrine
and since then we repeatedly, in fact.
il not in word. have acknowledged
the binding character C> that doctrine
The state department at Washington
knows, in fact. that If they should
ever deem it wise to approach the
governments of Eurore with a view
of getting a general acceptance OF
that policy put on record no opposi-
ton would come from this country
Therefore. those who control the for
eign policy of America will have no
anxieties as long as he command of
the sea remains in British hands.
The American Ambition.
"No doubt there is certain party
| in the United States who desire that
their own country should in the fG
lure command the sea. IT, however
they cannot induce the people OF
America to make the necessary sac
rifice and create the immense fleet
required for that purpose they would
much rather that the control shorl1
remain in our hands.
I'VE venture 10 go farther auI sa!
that, though the American people
are. from many points of view, verl
Ifricndly with Germany. the state
men of Washington woull rather se'
the command of the sea in alm~s
any other hands than those OF Ger
many. and for this reason they know
that the German ambitions and as
lpirations in the matter of world pow
er must. if Germany held command o
the sea. tend to bring her INTO con
fict with the Mcnroe Doctrine"
Germany intentions are no doub
very friendly but if she held coH'
mand of the sea it is impossible .
doubt that she would expect Americ
to be reasonable. as she would cal
lit in regard to the Monroe DOctrin>
and not push an expression or >Dolic
which Germany considers out of dat
to its logical conclusion.
German supremacy over Britai
at sea of a permanent xind would a
: once make it necessary ror hmeric
to secure herself and the policy tina
! she has created by outbuilding an
outorganizing Germany in the matte
of sea power"