The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-03
testify managed under the leadership
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testify managed under the leadership
of the United States.
| To Major Bigelow II Ia clear that Pam
Americanism has not only sentiment
tai but may come. and not at 80 dis
tant q day, to have practical value
and usefulness. lie points out the rA-
pidity with which the advancing No
! lions Of Europe are expanding and taxi
/ ing UP all the waste places Of thu
earth. He enumerates the acquisitions
and annexations that have been made
since the Franco German war: The an
nexation Of Alsace- Lorraine by Ger
many, the almost complete partition OF
Africa among six European Powers, thu
spoliation OF Central America and Ven
ezucla by Great Britain. the annexation
OF Corea to Japan. OF Madagascar ard
Morocco to France. Of parts Of China
to Germany. Russia and japan. of Trip
oil to Italy and the acquisition VI tho
Panama Canal Zone by the United
States" He infers that the land hunger
thus denoted will satisfy Itself by pro }
ceedlng along the lines OF least resist-
ance. The use OF Pam Amcricanism IL
to provide that no part of the Western
Hemisphere shall be the line Of lease
resistance.
That indeed was the object of the
original PRONUNCIATION Of the Monroe
/ Doctrine and of the extensions which
! II has since received that neither of
/ these continents should he regarded Nv
! European Powers as available fields fs-
I conquest and colonization. Much rs The
Monroe Doctrine has been written
about, Major Bigelow has much TO sdy
OF II and Of the cases that have ARISEN
| hat ha q
his readers. He has gone into the
original correspondence between Cam
ming and Rush. as Minister to Eng
land to show just how far the Canning
doctrine and the Monroe Doctrine
agreed, and how much justification
Canning had for his famous boast. Il
resolved that If France had Spain IL
should not be Spain with the ladies'
| | called the New World into existence
! to redress the balance OF the Old" Ma.
| jor Bigelow insists that he hud none
at ali, and that his claim was "fanlar- .
| ronade" nasmuch as the Spanish Amer
! lean republics had Indicated their indie
pendence and been recognized TWO
years before Canning took any action
! in the matter. Canning was IN fac;
! so much disgusTted hy the Formulation
of the Monroe Doctrine a. 20 exclude
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with Russia and Great Britain in d.tcr
mining the boundaries OF Alaska. IIc
maintained that whatever right Of col
on,2ing the unapproprintcd portions ~
America has been hitherto ersoyed by
Great Britain In common WIKI tho
other Powers Of Europe may Vel Ne
exercised In perfect freedom. without
affordng the slightest cause Of UNI
bragg TO the United states" For tho
rest OF his official life he lost no oppcr
tunity 10 persuade the new Suuts
American republics tina, II was TO their
I interest to seek alliances with the
United Kingdom rather than w.h the
/ United States
Al the same time VI Tor BEelow
| points out that it would hc a m.Stl5e
| to regard the Monroe Doctrine as a,tru-
/ istic or even as "Pdn-NmeTicln." =,
lis in It's general form and tenor frank
.goistical or national. Il speaks ir
, the United States and its interests. aHI
not for the Western Hemisphere and
its interests" The same may be said
OF the various extensions of the doctrine
| of which that OF the resolution intro
, duced into the Senate by senator Lodge
in 1912 may he regarded 80 the latest
although It was disapprovcd by prcsid.n.
! Taft. and although it, author Insisted
that II was justified not by the Mon
roe Doctrine but by the nltisnal rl-r'
of self-protection. Of which the Monru.
/ Doctrine is merely the expression tn
was the resolution declaring that the
United States would view with Crel,
concern" the acquisition hy for. -
commercial company NJ my aarh.r
i which might become usa'ul ts . ndVt.
/ station in case OF way to the country
I whose ma ,lonals composed o~ controlled
the corporation as u Va .ror appr,-
/ hcnded that a Japnu'~s company wis
preparing tn occupy q por' ON the Pa
chic coast Of N,N.co. and as d German
company Is slid FIR some vcars
to have controlled the West Igo.,u
harhor of II. Thomas Th" "pras,
doctrine that national forrcs sn.I
not be employed fur mo collie.
ton If contrac'ual debts, Major E'cr-
low regards. and no doubt correctly ts
! "a Corollary not Of the Monro, Doc
trne but Of the Bolivar idea. There -
- coro'larN. no; Of the None. i'.r.
rinc, in the seizure Of a custom l.U..
and tho collection ct the revenues q.
the amount Of thc sv!2,r's claim I- -.
ned Eat all the same. when trif ~
pedicnt was followed in 1902 hH G'..-
. Britain, Germany end Italy. u'fu.r -
as our author points ou'. -. u,a5, D.,
Fl official protest against th, nrHs. .".
public feeling was w"uuCht ~ l' p o.,
painful and dangerous tension ..l
. those vino were in the WY of .trr
the then Secretary OF STATE. I,hr ny
became aware that he fully sh'r.3 'hs
I feelings of his Coun,r! mon.