Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-02-09


only 10000 enlisted men in the
United States, taking the nation as a
whole, and they are divided up into
as many units as there are States.
And the Constitution of the United
States puts them under the direct
command and control Of the Cover
nors Of the States, not Of the Presi-
dent OF the United States, and the
national authority has no right to
call upon them for any service out
side their States, unless the territory
Of the nation is actually invaded. I
want to see Congress do everything
that it can to assist in the develop
ment of the National Guard, but the
National Guard is body of State
troops and not a body of national re-
serves.
Rights of Mankind.
'IBut there are rights higher than
either of those, higher than the
rights of individual Americans out
side Of America, higher and greater
than the rights of trade and of COM
merce. We have made ourselves the
guarantors of the rights of national
sovereignty and Of popular sover-
eighty OH this side OF the water in
both continents in the Western Hemi-
sphere. You would be ashamed, as I
would be ashamed, to withdraw one
inch from that handsome guarantee,
for 1t Is a handsome one. For we
have nothing to make by it, unless It
be that we are to make friendships
by it, and friendships are the best
rsury Of any sort of business. So far
as dollars and cents and material ad-
vantage are concerned, we have moth
ing to make by allying ourselves with
the other nations of the Western
Hemisphere In order to see to it that
no man from outside, no government
from outside, no nation from outside,
attempts to assert any kind Of sover-
eighty or undue influence over the
peoples of this continent.
"Ameirca knows that the only
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trine and all the differences that flow
from 1t Is her own moral and physi-
cal force. The Monroe doctrine has
never been formally accepted by any
international agreement. The Mon
roe doctrine merely rests upon the
statement of the United States that if
certain things happen she will do GER
tain things. So nothing sustains the
honor of the United States in respect
Of these long cherished and long ad-
mired promises except her own moral
and physical force.
Greatest Interference.
do you know what has interfered
more than anything else with the
peaceful relations of the United
States with the rest of the world?
The credultiy of the rest Of the world
when we have made statements of
our sincere unself1shness in these
matters! The greatest surprise the
world ever had, politically speaking,
was when the United States withdrew
from Cuba. We said we are fighting
this thing for the sake Of the Cubans
and when it Is over we are going to
turn Cuba over to her own people.
And statesmen in every capitol in
Europe smiled behind their hands.
They said what? That great, rich
island lying directly south Of the foot
of your own Florida! Plant your
flag there and then haul 1T DOWN.
Americans said 1--WE will never raise
the flag Of the United States any.
where and then haul it down. And
then when the American people saw
that the time had come when her
promises were to be fulfilled, down
came that fiuttering emblem of our
sovereignty and we were more hon
ored in its lowering than we had been
In it's hosting. The American .uplc
feel the same way about the Philip
pines, though the rest OF the world
does not yet believe it. We are
trustees for the Filipino people and
just so soon as we feel that they can
take care Of their own affairs, with
out direct interference and protection,
the flag again will be holored by the
fulfillment Of promise.
What tho Flag Means.
"That flag stands for honor, not for
advantage. That flag stands for the
rights Of mankind, no matter where