The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-21
Former United Status Min ister Sherrill Pleads That
 Rights Be Restored.
AMERICA oUGHT3TO
 GRASP OPPORTUNITY
Now is Time fors Great Re public to Get F;Evers From
 Countries Abroad,

Buffalo, N, T.. oet.A sl-The time is ripe for the Updted States to ask European countries ,to tnelinaalsh pos- session of their oolonsesb 5n the west era Hemisphere. in the opinion of Charles H. sherrill, former United fStates Minister to Argeutipa who de- lfvered a remarkable address along this line before the University of Buff ifa1o today
 .Tt is very doubtful9 if ever again i;the United States will be in a better Rendition to ask favors tof Europe than ilit is at present. said 1Ar. Sherrili in treferring to the fact that European s1aat1ons were seeking Jfinancial as lsastances in, this countrys as never. be- i fore; and he declared the United States owed 1t to her sister republics to ask Europe flo relesBse to the soW- ereignty of the peoples Athenselvse all colonial territory in the Western aenisphere.
 Mr. Sherril1's subject was sBuffa- 10 and Her Opportunity tn5 Fan-Ameri- ' f,canism,', but after referring to the local pride that Buffalo had in Pan Anericanism by reason aef the fact kthat she was the first among the cities of the United Statess to hold a Fan- American Exposd Hons and fur ther that lt was at BuffaIo's doors i that the: recent A. B. C. Conference
 
 novel proposition of asking Europe to release her hold on American colonies I and went so far as to suggest that if 9inancia1 consi iderations were involV- ed. the United States might Sneet the cost
 The speaker did not nalesit entire < 1y clear whether he would include Canada in the bargaining for inde- I pendences saying only. ttCanada can have her independence whoever she 
 I with the British empire by her own X voIitfon MT SherriH spoke more lparficulariy of freedom for the Guin- as, British Honduras. and4 such Euro I pean coIonies
 He said in part
 Tn the life of a nation just as in ! that of an individual. there may come an opp portunfty So obviously one for useful service as to make of the opp fppTfun4ty pressing duty believe 1 by reason Of Europess wish for vast credits and loans in our country believe that because of this unpre- lcedented state of internaH onaI af- vice for Pan-Annercan1sm as hassnev- CT been possible since Monroe pro nbunced his famous warning to Eu- lzrope. and which may never be possi- b1e again.
 
 for a moment the condition In which -AmeTicanistn finds itself today, and the path by which it has ad- vanced For us of the most norther- i h republic, Pan-American4sm has a1- ways been linked with the Monroe Doctrine. which doctrine Is not only an important international fact but also one founded upon a great prin- clp1e- If it were not. it could never I go completely have won the heart of ia landmarks to our foreign policy. No nations history re4vels a policy which while enuring to it's own bene- #fit. is at the same time so idealisti- z4tory of any of our fellow republics Of this hemisphere, but it opposes any such territory falling into the, hands of any European power. and thus tends to keep us free from the whirI- pool of European politics. We must not forget that 1Ionroess message was but a. logical corollary to Washing toms oft-quoted recommendation against entangIing foreign alliances. It was a, corollary because, while we renounce any direct acceptance of such alliances, nevertheless, indirect Fly we might become ennbrof1ed by the planting in our hemisphere of Euro pean colonies, and it was this dap- We shall not cross the ocean to mix in your affairs. and you must not cross the ocean to mix in your af- fairs, and you must not cross the ocean to mix in Western affa1rs.'s say we. And how has this policy Of de- s1ensiyo seclusions worked out and de- byeioped
 s.The next logical step after the general recognition across the ocean Of the Monroe Doctrine, was that our fsiiow-A raerican republics should come to agree that the Monroe Doc trtne ought to be a continental one lin whose Responsibilities they must join with us. so that the Doctrine should no longer oe unilatera1. and it's operation (defansiye or otherwfse1 be vance has already been taken thank l40 the success of thA A. B. c. Media ton in preventing war between the N United States and Mexico. May the troadened scope Of the recent co Eoperat1ve offer to the Mexican fac Hons of friendly offices by seven American republics be as suceessfu: in stopping civil strife as was the A B. c. Mediation in preventing an in. lternationaI confliety
 s'In any event, it is 8 splendid and a striking fact that such co-operativt steps toward peace should have b6sE taken on this side of the ocean al the same time that on the European side all cooperative effort is for war But is there no further step to be taken in the Pan-American program flor ensuing us peace and is not the time now ripe for such an advance Pan-Americanisfn has produced 2 practical method for conserving in ternatfonaI peace in this hemisphere but can it not also. produce an equal ly practical method of ensuFing peace for this hemisphere with Eurepe2 ] believe that there is such a step, and that now is the psychological moment to take it, Last December our South American friends initiated joint ef- fort to disemBarrass all PaR-Ameri- can waters from armed conflict be tween outsiders-an excellent sug-