Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-19
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Robt. MeMads.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--WE r
being treated almost daily to fresh
doses Of sensations, the latest and
by far the worst being the ~utterance
OF exAdmiral Chester that the famous
Monroe Doctrine, upon which this ma
ton has stood for years. should be
eliminated as q whole. The learned
Hannis Taylor, M of the ables in
ternational legal authorities in the
world, discussing the rear-admiral's
queer declaration, characterizes 1t as
more serious than revolutionary. III
is REASONABLE, morally reasonable"
he says, because 1t is a stab at the
vitals OF a doctrine which Is now a
part OF our national life. The fact
should be settled here and now, that
no disciple Of Admiral Chester will
ever be entrusted with the command
OF a feet Of the United States.'
Continuing, the learned authority
says: II put against this dangerous
cutlery of Admiral chester the gold.
en- and immortal words of President
Cleveland, who in his special message
to congress Of December II, 1895, af.
ter referring to the contention Of the
British pine ministe, Lord Salisbury,
that the Monroe Doctrine had been
given "a new and strange extension
and Development said that without
attempting extended argument in re.
ply o these positions, it may not be
amiss to suggest that the doctrine
upon which we stand Is strong a:ld
sound, because its enforcement. is
important to our peace and safety az
a nation, and Is essential to. the in.
tegrity Of our free institutions, and
the tranquil maintenance Of our
distinctive form of government. 1t
was intended to apply to every state
of our national life, and cannot be.
come absolute while our republic en-.
dures. If the balance of power is
justly a cause for jealous anxiety
among the governments OF the Old
World, and a subject for our absolute
non-intervention, none the less IS an
observance of the Monroe docerine OF
vital concern to ~ people and .heir
Government. The doctrine finds its
recognition in those principals OF
international law which are based up
on the theory that every nation shall
have it's protected and its just claims
enforced By that luminous de-
claration Of President Cleveland,
whose lightest words were weighty,
unsealed a fresh fountain OF
American patriotism in which every
statesmen, soldier and sailor Of this
republic should battle himself, if need
be, in order that he may be made
clean.
when in October, 1923, Jefferson,
at the request of President Monroe,
made the first formal expression of
the Monroe Doctrine, he began by say
ing that the question presented by the
letters you may have sent me is the
most momentous which has been
offered to my contemplation since that
Of independence. That made US a
nation; this sets our compass and
points the course which We are tc
steer through the ocean Of time open
ing in U.S.
President Cleveland and his match
less Secretary of State, Mr.. Olney,
reset the compass, when in the ON
troversy with Great Britain as to the
boundaries of Venezuela, they settled
nee and forever the boundary OF this
Republic in the affairs of the New
World. When Lord Salisbury wisely
accepted that settlement he sealed the
moral alliance between the United
States and Great Britain, which Is to-
day one of the strongest guarantees
of the peace of the world. Those who
know best the history of the inner
motives that led to that moral alliance
perfectly understand that it Goa
templated the building of an inter
oceanic canal, by means of which the
strategic value of the growing navy Of
the United States will be doubled In
the Pacific. Wide.visioned statesmen
do not fail to see now how the peace
OF the world will be guarded as never
before by the two mighty fleets OF
Great Britain and the United States
acting in unison in the great Anglo
American lake which will still be call
ed the Pacific Ocean.
Nothing could be more absurd than
the idea that the moral alliance bet
ween Great Britain and the United
States, now more important than ever
to the peace of the world, is to be
disturbed by so trifling an incident
as the regulation by this Government
of tolls through a waterway built at
its own expense and through its own
territory. AS. her ships cannot part
icipate in VI coastwise trade, Great
Britain has no real interest in a con-
troversy into the transcontinental
railroads have been only able to in
volve he only in a half.hearted way.
Let the questions arising out of this
yoidable Hay P%aulcefote treaty be
adjusted as they should be, by
diplomacy SO that sensibilities OF
Great Britain may not. be wounded.
Her statesmen know that she really
owns and dominates the Seuz Canal,
without any difference from us; and
they also know that it is not to her
interest to pick, at the instigati0n OF
OF private interests, al unjust quarrel
with us as to. the control of a water
way upon which we have expended
$400,O0O,O00, and through which our
fleets are to cooperate with her own