The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-30
The Monroe Doctrine
Must It Be Abandoned and A
 New Policy Adopted

CBy Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner.)
 Washington, July 30. = t"The tirue has come when the Monroe Doctrine must be modified or renounced, de- clared Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, in a remarkable statement which he has given to me with permission to publish
 According to Senator Lewis this na- ton has progressed to a point where she can no longer consistently forbid European aggression in Central and South America while the United States herself has become an aggressor in these countries. This aggression, too, Is inevitable for the protection of the Panama Canal, the proposed Nicar- aguan treaty, in which the United States assumes a protectorate over the smaller nation, indicating the trend of American advancement.
 When the Monroe Doctrine was promulgated there was no thought that the United States would ever in terfere in Latin American politics, and we therefore demanded that no European nation be permitted to col onfze on this continent. The logical inference is, thinks MT. Lewis, that having departed from our own former attitude we can no longer forbid the countries of Europe from entering Pan -America. Senator Lewis believes that the Monroe Doctrine will be SUI perceded by a new policy-the Amer ican Doctrine, which will mean: "Any course by America anywhere neces- sary for the maintenance of American ideals and the just protection Of American citizenship"
 America, has broken into South America said Senator Lewis, "seiZ- ed Panama, divided Colombia, and for the object of constructing the Pana-
 ma Canal now finds it necessary to take possession of Central America, or to arrange a protectorate which will give us control of these widening g banks of our new stream
 Clearly it is impossible for us to invade South and Central America to the extent necessary to protect the Canal without having either the CO operation of the European countries interested in South or Central Amerf- ca. or, if not their cooperation, their silent acquiescence in the form of non -reSistence.
 Equally clear is it that to have either, some form of reciprocity with these countries in South or Central America is at once necessary. It is apparent that these European coun- tries in turn for the cooperation which we must seek from them will demand of us that they be permitted to preserve their own interests in these same spheres in any manner they may find necessary
 That those countries now will de- mand the privilege in Mexico, South and Central America to protect their rights in the same form as they are maintained by Italy in Abyssinia, by France in Algeria, by England in Egypt and China, and by Germany in China and Central Africa, is all too apparent-and that these features of government will now be advanced and entrenched upon the American contf- nent in Central and South America. Then who shall Say what shall be the extent of the armies they will have a. right to maintain upon our southern boundary; and who shall be able to say under what grievance they may not advance with these armies upon us, either because of wrong done them by us growing out of commerce, or because of any alliances they may have with any Oriental country which for any reason arises in the future to become our hostile foe?''