Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-04-22
LIBERTY is PLEDGED ANEW As
VENEZUELA AND THE UNITED
STATES uNvEIL STATUES.
DEFENDS MONRoEISM
PRESIDENT HARDING DECLARES
AMERICA is READY TO FIGHT
FOR SMALLER REPUBLICS.

New York. April 2O.-The republics
of North and South America Joined
hands across the Caribbean in two his
torical events commemorating their
heroes who showed each continent the
road to liberty.
Amid the roar of cannon and plaud-
its of a distinguished gathering, Pres
ldent Harding. ut the bronze equestrian
statue of Simon Bolivar, unveiled liz
Central Park, New York, proclaimed
anew the fundamentals CT the Monroe
doctrine and cited the desirability of
standing firmly together for service
both to the New ard the Old World
simultaneously in Caracas, yenezu-
elias capital, President-elect Gomez
and the people of Bolivars native land
gathered around the statue of George
Washington. which was unveiled in
Washington Park.
President Harding was generously
applauded when he declared the United
States is ready to fight in unfolding
the Monroe doctrine.
1T is an interesting thing to com
pare the careers of the two great faith
ers OF AlneIlchn uDtTty -boii'hr anu
Washington.
Each wrought an empire of freedom
and builded more vastly than he
dreamed. Their aoacep. of liberty was
not inspired In individual unrest. Each
was wealthy, each rated among the
personally fortunate, but peoples
freedom was impelllng.
at is not too much to say that out
of the liberations wrought by Washing
ton and Bolivar grew the republican
constitutional system which is Amer
icas gift to mankind.
1T Is fine to be able to say that new
world temples of liberty were not
wrought in destruction of the old.
1--WE speak historically of revolution
when In reality we mean severance and
freedom for evolution.
1.-The world isn't calling today for
destruction; 1t needs reconstruction,
where the test of justice is applied to
the things which were as well as the
things which are to be.
Perhaps the miracle was in the d.
vine plan, and the new world marvel
was an inevitable part in the supreme
scheme for developing civilization.
THE doctrine proclaimed under Mon
roe. which ever since has been jealous
ly guarded as n fundamental of our
own republic, maintained that these
continents should not again be regard
ed as fields for the colonial enterprises
of Old World powers.
There have been times when the
meaning of Monroeism was msunder-
stood by some, perverted by others.
and made the subject of distorting
propaganda by those who saw in it
an obstacle to the realization of their
own ambitions.
Some have sought to make our ad-
hesion to this doctrine a justification
for prejudice against the United
States. They have falsely charged
that we sought to hold the nations of
the Old World at arms length In or
der that we might monopolize the priv
iiege of exploitation for ourselves.
"Others have protested that the doc
trine would never be enforced II to en-
force 1t should involve US in actual
hostilities.
THE history of the generations since
that doctrine was proclaimed has
proved that we never intended 1t self
ishly; that we had no dream Of eI-
ploitation.
ION the other side, the history Of
the last decade certainly must have
convinced all the world that we stand
willing to fight, If necessary, to pro-
tect these continents, these sturdy
young democracles. from oppression
and tyranny"