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Show , " AMERICA'S SEPARATE DESTINY ' The American people has no desire to trade the Monroe Doctrine for the right' to meddle in the affairs 'of Europe, and thereby to become parties to the controversies contro-versies growing out of traditional territorial, terri-torial, trade and dynastic rivalries. The American people prefer to have the American republic fulfill its own pe culiar and separate desting than to have it enter, in to any world wide partnership ,vyith any .other nation or group of nations, na-tions, except for the sole and single pur- . . j . , pos6 of 'preserving the world's peace- by the substitution of arbitration for war in the settlement of international disputes. There is no such thingas Washington said, as disinterested friendship between 'nations. Thq enemies of today are r the friends of tomorrow; the friends of today the enemies of, yesterday. ... . The, sentimental ties, cemented by the blood of common ideals and common heroism, her-oism, whichunite us with the nations al- s. lied (with u in the great war now draw- ( fjk! ingto a close, wiU never be forgotton. . They afford no good reason for abandoning abandon-ing thejsplendid isolation which is the sure protection of this republic from the embroilments of other powers. The American people did not go to war " for any selfish purpose, but neither did they go f or an opportunity to enter into any world-wide system of communism under which we are to divide "up oar wealth with the world's poverty, and sacrifice sac-rifice the peculiar advantages of our sit- ' L uatioh. - i. ( . |