Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-21

percetved that one OK the difficulties
of our past relationship with Latin
America was this: The famous Mon.
roe doctrine was adopted without your
consent and consent OF any of tho
Central American or South American
states. We said: We are going to be
your big brother, whether you want
us to be or not
I'VE did not ask whether II was
agreeable to you that we should be
your big brother. We said: We are
going to be- Now that is all very
well as far as protecting you from
aggression from the other side of the
water was concerned, but there was
nothing in it that protected you from
aggression from us, and I have re-
peatedly seen an uneasy feeling on
the part of representatives of the
states of Central and South America
that our self-appointed protection
might be for our own benefit and our
own interests and not for the inter
ests of our neighbors. So have said:
"'Let US have common guarantee
that all Of us will sign declaration
of political independence and terrific
rial integrity. Let US agree that IL
any of us, the United States included,
violates the political independence or
territorial integrity Of any Of the 9TH
ers, all the others will jump on her.
''Now, that is the kind of agree.
ment that will have to be the founda-
ton of the future life of the nations
of the world, gentlemen.
'The whole family of nations will
have to guarantee to each nation that
no nation shall violate its political in
dependence or its territorial integ-
rity. That is the basis-the only con-
ceivable basis-for the future peace-et
the world, and / must admit that
was anxious to have the states or the
two continents of America show the
way to the rest of the world as to how
to make a basis for peace.
peace can only come by trust. II
you can once get a situation Of trust
then you have got situation OF per-
manent peace. Therefore every one OF
us owes it as a patriotic duty to his
own country to plant the seeds OF
trust and of confidence instead of
suspicion and variety of interest
American Disinterestedness.
In emphasizing the disinterested-
ness of the United States in the world
war the president said:
zone of the difficulties that I expo
rienced during the first three years of
the war, the years when the United
States was not in the war, was in
getting the foreign offices of Euro
pean nations to believe that the Unit
ed States was seeking nothing for
herself; that her neutrality was not
selfish, and that IL she came in she
would not come in to get anything
substantial out of the war, any mats-
rial object, any territory or trade or
anything else of that sort. In some
of the foreign offices there we're men
who personally knew me and they be-
lieved, hope, that was sincere in
assuring them that our purposes were
disinterested, but they thought that
these assurances came from the ordi-
nary sources of information and
speaking the idealistic purposes of the
cloister. They did not believe that l
was speaking the real heart Of the
American people, and l knew all along
that was. Now, / believe that every
body who comes in contact with the
American people knows that l am
speaking their purposes"
AS a correct example the president
referred to his declaration that he in-
tended to stand by Russia.
"We cannot make anything out OF
Russia" he said. I'VE cannot make
anything out of standing by Russia
at this time-the most remote of the
European nations so far as we are
concerned. the one with which we
have had the least connections in
trade and advantages-and yet the
people of the United States rose 10
that suggestion as to no other that l
made in that address. That is the
heart of America, and we are ready
to show you by any act of friendship
that you may propose our real feelings
toward Mexico