The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-01-16

mitted it and IT had been decided
against us. would we have given up
the Monroe doctrine and permitted
Germany to acquire the islands? Sup
pose Germany had purchased them
and started 10 take possession and
We had moved our battleships to the
waters in the neighborhood of these
Islands 10 prevent her taking possess
sion. Under this league to enforce
peace that would have put us in the
wrong and we would have found our
selves a member of a league by the
terms of which we invited all the ma
tlons OF Europe to fight us because
we refused to submit the Monroe doc
trlne to tribunal or refused to give
1t up. Do you think we would have
submitted any of these questions to
an arbitral tribunal composed entirely
OF foreign nations? If it had been sub
mitted, do you think the people of
the United States would have sustained
the reasonable administration that
had done so? l repeat, Mr. president
thank God the American people still
vote and they will control the policy
Of this nation in matters which touch
their vital interests and involve the
security Of their country.
Take another proposition. A few
years ago Germany made a move NJ
purchase the Galapagos islands near
Ecuador. They, too. were not far from
the Panama canal 1t was during the
time Mr. Root was secretary of state
Through correspondence we prevailed
upon Ecuador to refuse to sell. But
suppose Ecuador had refused to ac-
cept Secretary Roots suggestion. AS
a sovereign nation she had right to
sell, and Germany had a right to buy
Suppose she had purchased and I'M
dertaken to take possession and we
had disputed her right to do SO. Would
not the Monroe doctrine again have
been directly involved and would we
have submitted the question of wheth-
err Germany should have these islands
which would involve the safety of our
whole country to an arbitral tribunal?
But if we had refused to submit it
league of nations, all other members
of the league would have had to send
an army here to whip US into submits
sion. We would have found ourselves
I he ST. Of ot tpl
have invited, every nation Of Europe
to take part in the affairs of the west
ern continent. President Wilson once
said most correctly: "The Monroe doc
trine was proclaimed by the United
States upon our own authority. 1t
always has been and always will be
maintained upon our own responsible
ity" No, indeed, we want no foreign
powers settling the difficulties of the
western continent. We have gotten
along splendidly under the doctrine of
Washington and Monroe without their
aid or assistance.
MIR. LODGE. The senator spoke
about the Galapagos Islands a moment
ago. The question came up under the
Mckinley administration, and Mr.,
Hay, then secretary of state. served
notice in form to Ecuador that there
was but one purchaser for those islands
| if they We're for sale. When it came
| to Mr. Root and the question arose
again, Mr.. Root said: Il did not pro-
pose that we should be in a position
where we had to buy the islands, and
l told Ecuador those islands were not
to be sold to any one"
MR.. BORAH. Precisely.
MIR. LODGE. That is the Monroe
doctrine, and that would go to the
winds if we had league Of peace with
| foreign powers.
| MIR. BORAH. / thank the senator.
! / have read somewhere this illustra-
ton which l make use of: A few
months before the commencement of
this war the president of the United
State appeared before congress and
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