Show HAYTI GSBSEA2TY AND THE STONEOE DOCTRINE The differences between Germany and Hayti over the Lueders incident have been composed the latter country coun-try complying with the formers demands de-mands This is a happy termination of an affair that has been prominent for several weeks past The stories told by the Haytien authorities and by the German representative of Herr Lue ders arrest have differed so materially and radically that it has been impossible impossi-ble to form any definite opinion as to the real merits of the case with i the result that people have had to he guided by their sympathies not always a safe guide The incident caused much to be said about the Monroe doctrine but Germany Ger-many never had any intention for a single moment of annexing the island though some of the Haytiens appeared to think she had and even some people in this country entertained the same idea The Monroe doctrine is firmly established es-tablished as a fundamental principle of i I American foreign policy and whatever party may be in power at Washington will maintain it as such there need never be any doubt as to that There are many governments on this hemisphere hemi-sphere and in the very nature of things they will at times have disagreements with European governments It is not the province of the United States to champion their quarrels though some of them will undoubtedly try to have this country do so by falsely invoking the Monroe doctrine There are many people in our owncountry who see in every dispute between any of the American governments and any of those of Europe a menace to the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine what it is that causes them to see this menace their fears or something else it is hard to say In disputes between governments as well as between individuals there are two sides to the story It is not to be presumed I pre-sumed that the governments on this hemisphere Are always right and that I they have their quarrel just those are matters to be determined according to the facts in the case There is another important thing that must always be borne in mind when the Monroe doctrine is to be invoked which is that being a doctrine that had its birth and development in the United States and having been promulgated by this government it is the peculiar province of this government to say when it is being infringed and if it does not declare there an infringement or threatened infringement of it it should be accepted by all who are interested in-terested in its maintenance that there is none To cry out that the Monroe doctrine is threatened with infringement infringe-ment every time a petty dispute arises is to make it ridiculous If It ever shall be actually infringed the consequences will be so grave that all the world will know it and something other than the cry of the alarmist will herald the fact |