The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-05-15

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powers of Europe, and lately the doctrine
has been preached in some Of them of
balance of power" on this continent to
check our advancement. The United
States, sincerely DESTROYS of preserving
relations of good understanding with all
nations can not in silence permit any Eur
opean interference on the North Ameri-
can continent, and should any such in
preference be attempted will be ready to
resist it atYny and all hazards.
1t is well known to the American peo-
pie and to all nations that this govern
metn has never interfered with the rela-
tions subsisting between other govern
ments. q" We have not sought their
territories by conquest; we have not min
gled with parties in their domestic strug-
giles, and believing our own form of gov
eminent to be the best, we have never at
tempted to propagate it by intrigues, by
diplomacy, or by force. We may claim on
this continent like exemption from Eur
opean interference. The nations of AM
erica are equally sovereign and independ-
ent with those of Europe. They possess
the same rights, independent of all for
eign interposition, to make war; to con.
clude peace, and to regulate their inter-
nal affairs. The people of the United
States cannot, therefore, view with indif-
ference attempts of European powers to
interfere with the independent action of
the nations on this continent. The AM
erican system of government is entirely
different from that Of Europe. Jealousy
among the different sovereigns of Eur
ope, lest any one of them might become
too powerful for the rest, has caused them
anxiously to desire the establishment of
what they term the balance of power"
1t can not be permitted to have any APP
plicatiou on the North American contin-
ent, and especially to the United States
We must ever maintain the principle that
the people of this continent alone have the
right to decide their own destiny.
In the existing circumstan ces of the
world the present is deemed proper &C.
casion to reiterate and reaffirm the prin-
ciple avowed by Mr.. Monroe and to state
my cordial concurrence in its wisdom and
sound policy. The reassertion of this
principle, especially in reference to North
America, is at this day but the promulga-
ton of a policy which-no European pow
err should cherish the disposition resist.
Existing rights of every European nation
should be respected, but it is due alike to
our safety and our interests that the eff
cient protection of our laws should be ex-
tended over our whole territorial limits,
and that it should be distinctively an
nounced to the world as our settled policy
that no future European colony or domin-
ion shall with our consent be planted or
established on any part of the North AM
erican ontinent.-James X. Polk
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The late Mr.. Woolworth never would
have made good member of an Appro-
priations committee in Democratic Con-
gress, for he handled ordinary nickels
and dimes A Democratic congressman
cannot recognize piece of money small
err than ten thousand dollar bill
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Nobody can accuse a New York legis-
lature of being stingy with the taxpayers
money" says that faithful Democratic
organ, the New York World The only
stingy legislative bodies we have in this
country are Democratic Congresses.
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The advocates of the league of nations
covenant, now that it has been patched
and half soled, are like the fellow who
drank embalming fluid out of the whisky
jug; they don't know what's in it but they
know they like it, whatever it Us.
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If Postmaster General Burleson were
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