Show I Editorials by C. C C. C Goodwin I Sorry Sony Provincialism That is a comical dispatch from Berlin to the effect that the States is about to declare a prot protectorate over Spanish America merica especially over Brazil and Argentina through virtue of the Monroe doctrine Some of f the German Gennan papers have been especially espe- espe fo for time past imputing imputing im- im I mean toward the United States some all kings kinds of hostile designs on the part of the United Unite i i States This last Jast is the silliest of them all aU The United States has had a protectorate over Brazil Sand and Argentina for something like Uke a century in that very thing called the Monroe doctrine Now those two countries are so powerful that the protection exists only in name na-me for they can each take care of themselves But Germany has just wakened up to t the e assumed as- as s- s belief that something 8 sinister nister is d signed designed In the meantime mean mean- meantime time one state of Brazil has been filled with German Gennan immigrants who have hav n ve ver been disturbed d or interfered with by either Brazil I or the United States from which fact it ought to be apparent enough to the journals of Germany that there is nothing in the Monroe doctrine to prevent any German or any number of Germans Germans Ger- Ger mans from coming to the new world and forging out a fortune The only inhibition has been that no GermanS Gennan or other foreign forein ruler shall plant colonies on this side to be ruled by the parent power in Europe even as France sought when the United States was convulsed by a great civil war ar to plant a branch empire In MexIco We Va suspect that in the state of Brazil that is well nigh Ger- Ger the fee feeling ing among tho those e people is as hostile to the thought of their imperial ancestor coming over to assume political power as it would be to the descendants of Irishmen in the United States were vere Great Britain to try to extend the southern line of Canada to include our country There are v vy y many gifted Germans in the newspaper offices of that country but they seem to be so provincial provin- provin cial that they can see nothing of good in the purposes of our |