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Show GERMAN MONROE. .DOCTRINE MADNESS. When the German and British fleets drew their blockade around Venezuelan ports, te business nad an ugly look, as though there was a latent thought of testing the Monroe Doctrine by at least the bluff of a war. But when a little later tho British great luke warm and the proposition was made to leave the adjustment to The Hague Peace Congress, there seemed nothing for Germany's war lord to do but accept, and the thought of any menace being intended was given up. But the fury and Imprudent talk indulged in by two Berlin Ber-lin professors in discussing the question of the Monroe Doctrine revives the belief that something some-thing was intended before events culminated in n way to cause the programme to be abandoned. Professor Adolph Wagner declaims that "the Monroe Doctrine is an empty pretension behind which is neither energetic will nor active power." Warming up, the professor declares that "no people and no great ruler ever proclaimed such a doctrie. Neither England nor Russia, nor Napoleon at the height of his power ever made a similar pretension." Then more and more heated, he declares that "only the divisions of European politics and lack of insight into and recognition rec-ognition of the solidarity of the interests of middle, mid-dle, western and southern Europe which hitherto has been and will remain the chief seat of human civilization that explains why Europe, why Germany, Ger-many, even, takes this empty pretension into consideration." con-sideration." There is more like the above in which the learned Savant's zeal is equalled only by tho modesty of his statements, evidently the favorite song of the professor is "Hoch der Kaiser," he gathers the world's civilization up to date into a robe and wraps himself up in the same and then spitefully expectorates over all the outside world. Here Is a sample of his saliva: "Aside from some technical and business speeches what has the United States done of importance for the real civilization of the world?" We can afford to 'point to Cuba, to the old flag and keeping still ourselves let the Ger- man-born Americans of Cincinnati, St. Louis and H Milwaukee answer the opinionated wise ass. BBJ There is nothing in the Monroe Doctrine to 'H prevent any number of thousand of the only civ- mTB ilized men "of middle, western and southern Eu- iBBB rope" from going to South America, building !BB homes there and Anally taking peaceable posses- .' sion. But they could not go there under the Ger- B man royal standard, and once in possession they !BB would never think of raising that standard. Eu- KJbI rope has been fought over at brief Intervals for jH a thousand years, the bone of contention often be- BTfl Ing for a little patch of land with less area than H would make a county in Texas, and the sons of ' Germany when they came away from native land "H want no more of that work to gratify the avarice t H and ambition of priests and kings. - Finally the professor raises his voice too late. M indeed, France and Austria found they were too KYB late thirty-eight years ago, even after four huu- VB dred thousand of the best and bravest North and BTJ South, had just died in a Civil war. The professor Kffl is impotent in his wrath, and possibly the knowl- M edge of the impotency of his anathemas adds fuel H to his anger. iBbI |