Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-11

of interest because Oh CdTdud anu HSi
holdings in British Guiana. Out of
that attitude came, in 1850, the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty of partnership III
the future Panama CANADIAN EN-
barrassing ENHANCEMENT. John Quin-
cy' Adams and President Monroe had
had the temerity, in 1923, to cut loose
from the Canning proposal and an
nounce another declaration of indie
pendence.
Prof. Bingham in, 1919 added: "Thc
Monroe Doctrine. which was becoming
obsolete in 1918, is now no longer
obsolete, but is more firmly held than
ever before, and has very definite
future sphere of usefulness.
1t is obvious that we must maintain
most active form of the Monroe Doc
| trine so far as the Caribbean republics
are concerned. In this regard l have
come to agree entirely with President
Roosevelt's ideas on the Monroe Doc
trine: Our attitude in Cuba Is SUI
ficient guaranty of our own good faith.
We have not the slightest desire to
secure any territory at the expense of
any of our neighbors. All that this
country desires is to see the neighbor
ing countries stable, orderly and pros
porous. If every country washed b.
the Caribbean Sea would follow the
pIOSI Gill SbdOiC anu just
which Cuba has shown all
questions of interference by this Ma
ton with their affairs would end"
There are two very distinct schools
Of thought as to the limitations on our
Government in safeguarding liberty
and peace outside of the Federal CAPT
tai. One extreme is that the Federal
Government should not have any au
thority to interfere with license or
misrule in the several States, on the
ground that that is interference with
States rights. a most distinguished
constitutional lawyer is now issuing
brief to that effect, in contending that
ii a State sees fit to permit unlimited
money in buying an election to the
United States Senate. that is the
States affair. and any meddling by
the Senate, as judge of the qualifica-
tions of the elect, would be curtail
ment of States rights.
In contrast with such doctrine of
jealousy of Federal encroachment
came the attitude of the slave in.
terests in the Polk administration
when they demanded that we extend
the Monroe Doctrine so drastically
as to take over the Yucatan Peninsula,
extend slave territory.
Whitelaw Reid. lecturinG to the law
students of Yale University in 1903.
referred to the Polk doctrine as an eX
tension of thel Monroe Doctrine H.
said:
There is a Polk doctrine startin.
I'm disputes about our Northwestern
Territory and in an intrigue OF the
slave power for the seizure and an
neXatlon of Yucatan. elaborated by
MIR. James Buchanan and his chief,
and adopted by Mr.. Polk in his mes
sages to Congress of December .
1S45, and April 20, 1S4S. = s. The
POLK doctrine says it should be dis
tinctly announced to the world as our
settled policy that no European col
ony or dominion shall, without our
consent. be planted or established on
any part OF the North American con
tlnent. Under that policy, Ger
many could not buy a coalng station
off the coast of Chile"
In our present concern over the
peace of Nicaragua is involved our
purchase OF the right TO build aud
defend an interoceanic canal and to
estabilsh naval base on FonseCa
bay. Orderly government in Nicara-
qua will always protect that right.
for which we have paid millions of
dollars. but an unfriendly government
controlled by an unfriendly and
Enthusiastically inspired faction in
Mexico. might support the claims of
Costa RIGA, San Salvador and Hon.
duras that they, too, held rights on
Fonseca Bay which were interfered
with by our proposed naval base--;i
Fantastic claim according to our
state Department, yet one which We
could never refer to a European
international court for adjudication.
me possibilities of such a complica
ton were foreStalled in 1912 nv the
Lodge resolution warming Japan out
OF It's proposed naval base in MaGda.
lena Bay:
Resolved. That when any harbor
or other place in the American con
tlnents Is so situated that the occupa-
ton thereof, for naval or military pur-
poses, might threaten the .cOmmunica-
tons or the safety of the United
States, the Government of the United
states could not see, without grave
concern, the possession of such
harbor or other place by any corpora
ton or association which has such
relation to another government, not
as to give that government
practical power of control for national
purposes
This Is certainly an extension of
the original Monroe Doctrine, but. az
cording to supporters of the present
IL is the modern
American doctrine, to which we are
irrevocably committed; it announces.
they aver, our preponderating interest
in all that concerns the safety of this