Show + AN UNFOUNDED FEAR The meeting of the Home Market club in Boston the othqr day was a memorable occasion The chief speakers speak-ers were VicePresident Roosevelt Senator Hoar and Senator Lodge Below Be-low Is an extract from a speech by Senator Lodge He said Some nations of Europe think that were we-re to shut them out OL South America and that they ought to come In and partition parti-tion that continent as they have partitioned parti-tioned Africa ram no alarmist but wo should be fools Indeed If wo shut our eyes to the Importance Import-ance of these questions That which Is the danger point Is the Invasion of > this hemisphere tho attempt to sct up a European power somewhere In South America I seems very remote but the Jlomoo doctrine Is something more than the utterance of a President I is tho instinct of the American people that formulated for-mulated that doctrine It Is the Instinct of selfpreservation and selfdefense Let South American lie open to thecompeti lion of tho world and wo will take our chance with the rcsu But It must not be taken by Europe JOt I do not advocate a great army but as I said in the debate on the army bill1 want to see an army which Is the best organize In the world uo jnatter how small It may be I want to see an army which It the tlmd does conc wo can < expand with millions of Americans who arc always ready to tako up arms for their country And I want to see a navy such as will be adequalo to the defense of tho United Stales There Is no probable C9mblnatlon that can be formed that will mOnace much the Monroe doctrine In South America At the same time we ought to have lines of merchant ships running down both coasts and It should be the rule In thiS = country when our troubles In the Philippines arc so settled that ships can be brought away to make it a practice to enter the ports of South I America several times a year with our battleships that people may ba accustomed i accus-tomed to the old flag and get glimpses of the guns beneath it Our posl lon Is I that there should be no restrictions restric-tions on immigrants from the Old World to the New but there must be no colonies and no foreign flags If a million 0 five million Germans desire to Inva southern Brazil for Instance carrying with them the implements of peace every American would say Godspeed God-speed to them but when they hew out for themselves a state there they must not pay allegiance to some power beyond be-yond the sea The foundations of the thrones of the Old World are on unstable unsta-ble soil The light that flashes from our llag reveals them as already toppling top-pling and there can bo no hostile thrones built up on this continent The land of the world is like the water and the altlt Is free where It Is unoccupied unoccu-pied The honest man who wants to work has a right ty go where he pleases and t put forth his best exertions But l when tho fathers came from the Old I World and settled In Massachusetts I and Virginia that was a signal that the ancient kingcraft and priestcraft that had bound the nations down so long were not to be on this bide that here governments should be of the people by the people and for the people and I when the SpanishAmericans SpnnlahAmClJans impatient under the tyrannies forced upon them by Spain one after the other threw off that yoke then I the whole land from j British Columbia to Patagonia was 1 1 dedicated tofrcedom and that edict cannot be changed We do not fear any combination because first the nations natons S beyond the sea cannot agree among themselves upon It and second if that wore to he tried it would be J I antiAnglo Saxon and that could not prevail oven On even terms and third Europe could I not feed herself and keep her laborers < employed and at the same time wage n I war against the United Strates I IGnl coming out right The opportunity for i what Senator Lodge fears passed twenty twen-ty years ago Twenty years hence It I will be but a ghost of a desire which n Shost I died before It was born I |