The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-19

rine and all the other constituent
parts of Americas foreign policy are
nothing but cobwebs and dust and
must be swept into the discard. In
one way, absolutely yes. For it's at
titude is that the time has arrived,
not to abolish the Monroe Doctrine
in the western hemisphere, but to ex-
tend it to the whole earth and have
America stand back of it along with
France, England, Italy and Japan, to
see that it is enforced precisely as
wet have happily enforced it on this
side the water since it was adopted
We are not abandoning the Monroe
Doctrine thereby. We are giving it
a broad, Goth century application
Greene, The Messenger and a mai
ority of the stand-pat Republicans
who emphatically do not represent
Vermont sentiment, would have us
continue to be the hermit nation,
standing snobbishly aloof from all
our world neighbors, with a chip on
our shoulders, daring the rest of the
world to come over here and start
anything. 1t would keep us the
sleepy-old Neutrality-suspicious. nation.
admitting that no changes are taking
place in the state and world outside
and What is good enough for our
grandfathers is good enough for Us"
The Hindu says the same .hinc. and
continues to pillow his land with
sharp stick because his grandfather
did not use. steel plows.
Greene, The Messenger and the
stand-pat Republicans would have it
that anybody who talks about nation
allsm and Americanism is "a pretty
poor fellow" when The Caledonian
said or inferred no such thing. t!nat
it did infer was that anybody who
would not admit that times have
changed and we are living in a diff
ferent day than when Washington
wrote his farewell address, and any,
one who would have nothing to do
with the League because it was Will
son-made, was a pretty poor sort of
fellow, and The Caledonian reiterates
that statement. 1t contends that ma
tionalism and Americanism are ex-
emplary planks in any party plat
form, but not to the exclusion of
Americas world interests or the well
fare Of several million people who do
not happen to live in the United
States. 1t tries to be big enough to
see the United States in it's proper
relation to the rest of civilized man
kind and not from a Republican part
isanship standpoint that would keep
the nations of the world cropping a
long in the same blind, hit-or-miss
fashion that they CROPPED up to Aug
ust, 1914. 1t hopes to think we'll
enough of its country that it's country
will be American enough to broaden
its vision and take the leading part
in seeing that the Monroe doctrine
covers the earth, not one corner of
the universe down in the central
Americas.
1t says that The Caledonian makes
poor job of exploding Congressman
Greene's recent speech despite the
fact that it spreads itself over four
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may be, admitting that Greene said
anything worth exploding, which we
notice some of the papers in the state
press decide he did not. But if The
Messenger will turn back to the Sat-
urday Evening Posts editorial page
of a recent issue, it will see that this
admittedly ultra-American periodical
with 100000 circulation a week en-
dorsed and advocated everything
which The Caledonian made a poor
attempt to reaffirm. AS matter of
fact, The Caledonian takes Greene to
task for not saying anything at all
onstructive-but merely attacking
the Demmicrats because they are not
Republicans, and because they have
tried to get up a league of nations.
Everybody knows that the Republi-
can party has strained its eternal
liver trying to hit upon something to
build a platform on this year and