The Washington herald., 1913-07-31
THE OPEN FORUM
The Monroe Doctrine and Its
COrOltary.

COrO1tary.
\ To the Editor: War and state Of war
are almost universal today. The weak
and small nations are the disturbing
| factors. We want peace, but eternal
peace Is chimerical.
| We see barbarous Mexico In savage
| warfare at our very doors. Our peace
has been disturbed by Mexico for years.
We have been patient and feel like TAX
ing a hand now. We might stand il
| Indefinitely from helpless Mexico. but
Europe and Asia are NEEDING. We must
| not let them force us into war with
| Mexico, however. We have right now
all Of the cancerous graft of institutional
Latin-America that Is safe. We have
| IL as result of war with Spain. War
| would mean the graft of Mexico. her
people, and her institutions upon us, and
the intensifcation of the troublesome
problem of the differences existing now
| between our Anglo-Saxon and the Latin
institutions in contest for supremacy of
power and government. At one fell
stroke, fifteen r.illi rs Of Mexicans. as
perilous to our general welfare as the
undesrables that the Congress and the
people are trying to exclude by whole
some immigration laws, would be thrown
bodily upon us. 1t is unthinEable that
any patriotic American would want any
more Latin-AmericaR territory grated
upon the body-politic.
Congress was printing her guns against
Mexico. One or two of that great body
went of half-cocked. The President
warned Congress against infiaming the
situation. but not before one distinguished
Senator suggested that America annex
some bordering Mexican states as a way
to end Mexican disturbances on the
a ma hnr II M
anything. Similar disturbances would go
on just across the new border. Then the
great Senator would want to annex an
other slice OF Mexican states, and so on,
piecemeal. until all Mexico was gobbled
up; and, still unsatisfied. would swallow
up Nicaragua, and so or, all Latin-Amer-
lea, state after state, to Patagonia at
last in final gulp.
The whole idea is repulsive Of graft
and greed and jnfammatory of Mexican
hatred Of America 1t is against the
spirit of the Declaration of Independence.
1t is against the spirit Of the Monroe
doctrine. 1t will not make for peace with
Mexico. 1t will cause distrust in all
Latin-America and intensity their hatred
Of US.
What is wanted now. most Of all. Is an
American manifesto toward the evolution
of peace in the New World. America
must sound II. keynote-tbe KEYNOTE that
the United States Is nor after anv Latin
American territory by CONQUEST. II is up
tn America N do II. Now is the oppor-
time time II would he a coroIrarv 10 the
Monroe doctrine. and of as far-reaching
results for tNe good of the New World
as that OF the Monroe doctrine itself.
Ana IL is to be hoped that IL will take
form and proclamation, and be known
as the Wilson doctrine.
The Monroe doctrine Is Americas
warning TO all the earth that the New
World is for the American nations only.
II is the third of Americas great trium-
yirate Of wonderful declarations for hu-
man rights and liberty. 1t has the force
of international law. IL, indeed, it is not
international law itself. II possesses an
interest and Importance as deep and liv-
ing today as at the moment of its enun-
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