Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 36 | An Unfounded Fear

AN UNFOUNDED PEAR FEAR PEARS S BORAH'S fear feor that the f Nicaraguan Nicaragua treaty is a form of concealed aggression of which the ho United States ought not to be e guilty is creditable but mt erroneous The protectorate proposed was the suggestion of Nicaragua not of the United States and nd md in assuming it we merely yield to the importunate and often reiterated request of this minor American republic for whom in common with others we ve assumed responsibility before the world ninety years cars ago when the Monroe doctrine was enunciated The ho imperialism that assumes no form of conquest that hat but loans a n beneficent influence in response to appeal would seem harmless The attitude o of the tho Idaho senator is curiously interesting It is entertaining to speculate as to th he the particular school of political belief he represents in n his opposition Since the Nicaraguan treaty was originally ne negotiated by Secretary Knox has bas the tile u 1 10 n 1 of Secretary B Bryan an and is innocuously mild in comparison with President Roosevelt's im- im aggression when wo we robbed Colombia of Pan Pan- mia ama Republican Democrat and and so-called so sire sie would seem to be united in approving it Inthe In Inthe the he attitude of none of tho the great political parties can Senator Borah find support Senator Borah would probably prefer that the tho United States maintain its splendid isolation but it is 3 impossible The telegraph instrument the cable and the tho turbine turbino engine have hae obliterated the tho natural barriers rs bc the thc old world and the new Wo Ve are arc aren in n the thick of world wOld affairs whether we will or no and it is the remorseless logic of events e that we must meet our responsibilities as rapidly as ns they arise