The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-04

intermeddle in European affairs an |
keep Europe from intermeddling in
your affairs?
When Mr.. Monroe wrote to Jeffer-
son, he asked him his view upon the
Monroe Doctrine, and Mr.. jefferson
said, in substance, our first and prim-
AIRY obligation should be never to in
~terfere in European affairs; and, sec
ondly, never to permit Europe to in
terfere in our affairs.
He understood as every wise and
practical man understands, that if We
intermeddle in her affairs, if We help
to adjust her conditions, inevitably
and remorselessly Europe then will
be carried into our affairs, in spite of
anything you can write upon paper.
Quotes French Editor.
We can not protect the Monroe
Doctrine unless we protect the basic
principle upon which it rests, and
that is the Washington policy. l do
mot care how earnestly you may en-
ydeavor to do so, as a practical work
ing proposition your league will
come to the United States. Will you
permit me to digress long enough to
read a paragraph from a great French
editor upon this particular phase of
the matter, Mr.. Stephen Lausanne,
editor of lie Matin, of Paris:
when the executive council of the
league of nations fixes the reasonable
limits of the armament Of Peru
when it shall demand information
concerning the naval program of
Brazil; when it shall tell Argentina
what shall he the measure of the
contribution to the armed forces to
protect the signatures Of the social
covenant; when it shall demand the
immediate registration of the treaty
between the United State and Canada
at the seat of the league, 1t will con-
troll, whether it wills or no, the des-
TIMES of America. And when the
American states shall be obligated to
taxi a hand in every war or menace
Of war in Europe Cart. XI.), they will
necessarily fall afoul Of the funda-
mental principle laid down by Mon
roe, which was that Americans should
never take part in a European war.
IF the league takes in the world,
then Europe must mix in the affairs
of America; If only Europe is includ-
.ed, then America will violate of ne
cessity her own doctrine by intermix-
ing in the affairs of Europe"
If the league includes the affairs of
the world, does it not include the af-
fairs of all the world? Is there any
limitation of the jurisdiction of the
council or of the assembly upon the
question of peace or war? Does it not
have now, under the reservations, the
same as it had before, the power to
deal with all matters of peace or war
throughout the entire world? How
shall you keep from meddling in the
affairs of Europe or keep Europe from
meddling in the affairs Of America?
Mr.. President, there Is another and
even a more commanding reason why
! shall record my vote against this
treaty. 1t imperils what 1 conceive
to be the underlying, the very first
principles Of this republic. 1t Is in
conflict with the right of our people
to govern themselves free from all
restraint, legal or moral, OF foreign
powers. 1t challenges every tenet of
my political faith. If this faith were
one of my own c%ontriving, if ! stood
here to assert principles of govern
ment of my own evolving, ! might
well be charged with intolerable pre-
sumption, for we all recognize the
ability of those who r a different
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