Show I I Editorials by C. C C. C Goodwin I II I The Grouch of Engl lf i and Germany i t A cable from Paris says that Great Britain is working quietly I European powers for a concert of action against the Monroe Mon Mon- roe doctrine Her complaint is that the doctrine interferes with Eur Europeans obtaining great concessions f from om South Am American ri n states having reference perhaps to the concessions which an n. n i. i Englishman recently obtained from Colombia covering vast tracts of oU oil land mines and a right of way for a ship canal from the Atrato river across the country to a po port on the west coast l' l 11 was a statesman of England who first proposed to Qui our minister to th England that our then president should proclaim the 1 Monroe onro doctrine The holy alliance had been formed it was was believed that the real object of the alliance was to re- re conquer an all the territory that Spain bad lost ost iii hl the New World and Gr Great at Britain did n not t want to fight that alliance But conditions have changed since then and there is nothing i that Great Britain will vill fight so cheerfully for as for more land and more e trade But re really she would have noth nothing g to do with ith a aw w wr r to compel our country to give up tile the Monroe doctrine except to sell seIl those engaged in n it war munitions But the real grouch with rith both Great Britain and Germany is the matter of the proposed tons tolls on the Panama canal They ar are both determined to have a new adjustment They are both ch claiming that by a treaty made a dozen years ago the terms of that treaty made absolute a law of ours which had been on the I books for a century when it is clear that there was vas n not t any intention intention in- in of changing the effect of that law when v the treaty was made dc Both powers know what they would do were they in the pl place ce Of f the United States nevertheless both are sulking and bluffing By agreement between themselves ne ther will have an exhibit a at the P Pacific Panama fair at San Francisco in 1915 and 4 now comes omes a second bluff to no longer respect t the Monroe doc doc- true trine Our country countr ought to answer the bluff by bi sending regular lines s of ships at short to all the important ports of South America and by fine department stores in all th the treat great cities of that continent |