The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-02-25

the untold suffering and misery IN
separable from such struggle
In the fourth place, commercial
war especially is crime against civ
+ ilization, which no nation can affor,
to provoke. The very conception o
such a war involves the idea of venal
lily and the violation Of the Ten Com
ImandmentS Its prosecution means
the temporary relapse Of those con
cerned into the spirit of barbarism
and its fruit is the generating Of ran
corous hatred and evil passions anc
the spirit of revenge that generations
will not serve to efface.
So whether we consider our materia
gain, or our national welfare or the
comfy Of nations, the progress Of tho
race for the promotion Of civilization
we are cstopped from war for
American commerce, east or west
north or south
Someone may say surely Washing
ton did not mean that the young re-
public he had helped to found should
not stand for its rights. Assuredly
not The policies Of Washington
found logical exemplifcation in the
Monroe doctrine, which vigorously for
babe European nations TO extend their
territorial oncroaehments and institu-
tions to the western continent further
to endanger our future.
The Monroe doctrine has been in
operation almost a hundred years, hav-
ing been formally enunciated in 1928,
ana Significantly enough it has been a
halwark Of safety for this nation by
interfering directly and fundamentally
With the rights Of foreign nations to
expand on this continent. 1t has new
er involved us in war or serious prob
ability Of war, for even in the case Of
President Cleveland's famous warning
to Great Britain in relation to the Ven
czuean cmbroglio there was no real
daager Of hositlities.
While Washington stood for nation
a dignity and rights he outlined pol
Icy which the American nation might
wen follow at this particular time. In
his farewell address, which can be
read to good advantage by all Ameri-
cans today, Washington enjoined US
10 observe good faith and justice to-
ward all nations cultivate peace and
harmony with ALL" "Inveterate antip
athies against particular nations and
passionate attachment for others
should be excluded" "The nation
which INDUCES toward another an hab-
tual hatred or an habitual fondness is +
i some degree a slave" either Of
which IS sufficient to lead it astray
rom. its duty and interests" ITO lay (
lold Of slight causes Of umbrage," or
facilitating the illusion Of an imagin-
.ry common interest" and "infusing
nto one the enmities of the other
Against the insidious wiles Of for
ign influence q coniure you to believe
ne fellow citizens) the jealousy Of
rec people ought to be constantly .
wake, since history and experience
rove that foreign influence is one Of
he most baneful foes Of republican
government" He warned US especial
y against European quarrels contin-
ing.
"The rule Of conduct for US in re-
ard to foreign nations is in extending
ur commercial relations, to have with
hem as little political connection as
Iossible. So far as we have already
ormed engagements, let them be full
He'd with perfect good faith. Here
ct us stop" Ii
That is a great injunction for the /
wilson administration today in the
ace of commercial crises, in Europe
nd the Far East. Here let US stop"
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