Show THE RIGHT TO DEFINE I have been held up as the denouncer denoun-cer of the Monroe doctrine said Lord Salisbury in his speech Friday night I at the banquet of the NonConformist association As a matter of fact he continued although the Monras doctrine doc-trine is no part of international law my dispatdh to Mr Olney the sscre I tary of state of the United States supported sup-ported It as a rule of policy i the strongest and most distinct terms But when I stated in that dispatch and reiterate re-Iterate It now said the English premier pre-mier growing more animated < as he is wont when about to win a great advantage ad-vantage from a concession he has made to an opponents position in argunverot Chat a a rule of policy we are the entire advocates of the Monroe doctrine doc-trine We mean the Monroe doctrine as President Monroe understood It cheers In that sense you will not find any more convinced supporters than we are Having brought his a auditors au-ditors to the point where they cheered his words the wiley old diplomat wley perfectly per-fectly well pleased with himself turned hurriedly to the Armenian question The cuteness of cuteness Lord Salisbury maybe may-be easily met and for that matter effectually ef-fectually met in this way Whenever Protestants engage in controversy with Roman Catholics and proceed to quote against them some passage of Scripture Scrip-ture the latter effectually set aside the whole argument by asking them what authority they have for presuming to set a interpretation upon holy writ The church and by that they mean the Roman Catholic church is at once the guardian and expounder of holy writ it alone possesses the power and is able to tell Its meaning and they insist that Protestants have no right or power to Invoke the testimony of holy writ against holy mother church excpet they take holy mother churchs interpretation inter-pretation of holy writ aed doing 43iat Protestants have no ground of argument argu-ment That is the answer t the English premiers petty cuteness What right has he to sit in judgment upon our Monroe doctrine Our statesman made I that doctrine they know what i is what its Intention and scope a do also the American people and they and not the premier of England will define its i meaning for the United States |