| Show TOO MUCH BUNCOMBE It is a little difficult to learn what the jingoes of the United States really want > done in the Venezuelan difficulty diffi-culty If it is censure of the Democratic Demo-cratic adminSnstraition for its foreign policy they should point out definitely what they think ought to be done and wherein there has been any failure As it is they merely growl and grumble grum-ble in an indeterminate manner and suggest the adage thai any fool can find fault The favorite expression with that class is The Monroe doctrine must be maintained Henry Cabot Lodge has had much to say on this question Pressed for explanations he has finally made this remark The Monroe doctrine it should be remembered is quite distinct > from any question of reparation for injuries received re-ceived by < the subjects of foreign powers pow-ers at the hands of the governments or the peoples of Central or South American Amer-ican republics With such questions we < have nothing to do tout we cannot permit under cover of a demand for reparation or in any other way new territory to be acquired by any European Euro-pean power As there is no demand for new territory by any European power at present Lodge may be regarded as having shrunk away and receded from his position of criticism of the admin > l h U 4UkUU J istration Great Britain does not demand de-mand any new territory on this continent con-tinent but lays claim to something which she regards as territory belonging belong-ing to her which can be determined in a rational and peaceful way Lodge says on this matter The question is now what was the true boundary between the Dutch and Spanish possessions That question can be properly settled by arbitration England from the commencement of the dispute has declared her willingness willing-ness to submit the matter to arbitration arbitra-tion She is ready to do so now Where then is the necessity for an outcry about the Mnoroe doctrine If after the matter is arbitrated it I appears that Great Britain is entitled en-titled to < possession of the territory in which are the mouths of the Orinoco river as she claims will that form a casus belli Is it a requisition of the national policy known as the Monroe doctrine which is not a lawfor the United States to declare war against Great Britain on the successful prosecution prose-cution of a suit in arbitration It is as well in an outburst of so called patriotism to be regulated by a little common sense If any European power should attempt by force to acquire ac-quire territory on this continent the policy of the United States under the Monroe doctrine would be to resist that attempt also by force if necessary neces-sary But to say that a foreign power must not seek to establish what it deems to be its rights by peaceful means which are in the nature of civil process is to utter nonsense and claim something never contemplated by Monroe Mon-roe or Adams when Chat now famous American policy was formulated U Let the Monroe doctrine be enforced en-forced by all means according to the spirit and meaning thereof but do not let the American people make ninnies of themselves by fulminating defiances and < breathing out threats when there Is no attempt to violate that doctrine or do anything but what the laws of nations admit and sanction That is simply balderdash and buncombe |
