The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-04-28
CLARK OPPOSED TO WAR.
speaker Says Monroe Doctrine IL
Very Much Alive.

ITO proclaim that the whole country
Is going TO the dogs is the biggest liz
since Ananias and Sapphire had the IL
starred realty transaction"
This was one OF the many epigrams
that Champ Clark uttered yesterday aft
ernoon in the course of his lecture al
the West Side Branch OF the Young Mems
Christian Association. in West Fifty-sey.
enth street. The attendance was so large
that It was necessary to have an over.
flow meeting in the Church of the Strang-
er. In the evening Mr.. Clark spoke al
thu Crescent Club. Pierrepont street,
Brooklyn, and afterward returned IL
Washington on the midnight train.
Mr.. Clark was asked about mediation
between this country and Mexico and re-
piled that the Mexican problem was
something with which President Wilson
alone was familiar. AS he walked across
the street from the Young Mems Chris
tian Association after his talk on Opt
misn' he said: Il hope to God there
won't be war
He made innuendoes in regard to the
American spirit and Mexico in his lecture.
telling stories about Prof Pickett. Ad-
miraH Farragut and an American boy.
Prof Pickett. he said. had been asked
by foreign woman how II was that men
in a country were so polite when they
had no queen. to which the Southerner
replied that in his country every woman
was a queen.
Admiral Farragut. in his tour Of the
world aboard his flagship. was in the
vicinity OF the BOsphorus when he sent
word to the Sultan Of Turkey that he
would like TO call on that pOtentate. said
Mr.. Clark. To this the Sultan is said to
have replied that only vessels command
ed by princes Of the royal blood were
permitted to enter the BosphOrus waters
Farraguts ire was aroused, and he sent
n message to the Sultan to the effect
that there were 200 men aboard his YES
sci. and that every one OF them was 4
prince in his country and that If he were
not permitted to take his vessel where
he wished he would make a call on the
Sultan with n vengeance. Farragut had
no difficulty. said the speaker. IN anchor
ing liz the Golden Horn.
Mr.. Clark went on 10 say that no one
OF the South American republics could
have existed six months II II had not
been for this country.
What aid it," demanded Mr.. Clark.
The Monroe doctrine. There's a Har-
ward professoT-Ty- forgotten his name.
and I'm glad Of it-whO said that / was
a lingo. He said the Monroe doctrine
was dead. 1t IS the Invest thing there
ever was in this country. Yes. like to
praise a Republican when / can find one
that's deserving. / like to think Of what
one man. William II. Seward. did under
the Monroe doctrine. II was at a time
when We were 81 busy with the civil war
that We had no time 10 attend to any
ones business hut our own. Louis
Napoleon decided II was time to smash
the Monroe doctrine He sent a man
and fINed him up with tinsel. and il was
only a little while before Seward sent
word for him TO get out Of Mexico. He
went
Mr.. Clark declared that certain ameIi-
cartons could b. made in this govern
mcnt If it we're like the British Parlia-
ment. where tine party retired inmedi-
ately they were beaten on a measure.
lie added thar he would like to have
seats for speaking purposes and where
III" members Of the House Of Rcpresen-
tatiVes could be questioned.
is war per So a good thing he ash
cd. Not only does every man think
not. but soldiers themselves will tell you
that war Is bad thing They will say:
War j. NV theme and hate ii
Mr.. clark ohsC rveG that Of all the ma
chimes devised by human ingenuity tn"
government machine is tn" slOwest H..
said that this was especially so in this
where there is the State and
national government. and added that
the governmental machine could not
keep abreast OF the times.-New York
Herald