The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-05-06
HARDING SPEAKS
IN new YORK CITY
Delivers Address at dwelling OF
the Statue of Gen. Bolivar
in Central Park.
RESTATES MONROE DOCTRINE
Declares the United States Will Use
Arms to Defend the Latin Amer
lean Republics-Lauds
Work Of Bolivar.

New York, April Outstanding in
the shadow Of the statue Of Simon
Bolivar, the great South American
liberator, President Harding in an adj
dress reasserted his faith In the doc
trine laid down by Monroe a century
ago. He stated plainly that the United
States stands ready at any time to
fight, if necessary, to preserve that
doctrine and to protect the young
democracies OF the new world against
oppression and tyranny.
Diplomats from all over the South
and Latin American countries and
the countries of the old world were in
the audience which heard the PreSi-
dents simple utterance of faith in the
destiny of the two Americas and the
warning which accompanied it, that
the United States is the big brother
of the smaller republics in fact as
well as in theory"
THE republics of the new world
have a great mission TO perform as
WE'LL" the President said. He cited a
world torn by war and conflict and
strife turning to the two rich young
continents of the western world ia
hope of aid.
Herein lies for us both duty and
opportunity" said the President;
duty to those whom we may help; OPP
portunity, in helping others, TO help
ourselves"
President Harding's reassertion Of
his faith in the Monroe doctrine and
his intention to preserve it was Wig
orOus. He said, In part:
This history of the generations
since that doctrine was proclaimed has
proved that we never intended it
selfishly that we had no dream Of
exploitation. On the other side, the
must have convinced the world that
we stand willing to fight, If necessary,
to protect these continents, these
sturdy young democracies, from op-
preston and tyranny.
Surely we may contemplate with
some satisfaction the v~indication that
our American system has won. Under
it, in q period so brief that history
recalls no parallel Of achievement, we
have filled two continents with splen-
did and prosperous states. We have
maintained ourselves independent Of
the older systems, aloof from their diff
f~erences and struggles.
"We have erected in these CONT
nents a power which, when civilization
was at stake. dared to cast into the
scale on the side Of right and we
have seer it's weight have a deciding
part in the cause of human justice.
1.-The docrtine proclaimed under
Monroe, which ever since has been
jealousy guarded as q fundamental
Of our own republic, maintained that
these continents should not again be
regarded as fields for the colonial en-
terprises of old world powers. There
have been times when some have
thought to make u adhesion to this
doctrine a justification for prejudice
against the United States. They have
falsely charged that we have sought
TO hold the nations Of the old world
at arms length in order that we might
monopolize the privilege of exploita-
ton for ourselves. Others have pro-
tested that the doctrine would never
be enforced If to enforce it should in
vOlve US In actual hOstilities.
Surely we may look on our work
and decide that it has been good, we
may well decide there can be no de-
parture from the standards that were
raised for us by the founding fathers"