Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — MUST KEEP HANDS OFF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MUST KEEP HANDS OFF.

European Nations Have No Rights on American Continent. Senator Cullom addressed the Senate Monday afternoon upon the joint resolution Introduced by him last,week provid-

ing for a legislative affirtpation of tbs Monroe doctrine. Tho galleries were crowded, and the largo attendance of Senators attested to the popular interest .felt in the subject. The Senator’s re- ’ marks were listened to with close attention and evident approval. He said that in order that the United States should main-

tain the national honor with its pre’sent unity and integrity it must have an affirmative policy of such unquestioned propriety as to receive the universal sanction of the people. In his judgment the United States could no longer delay the proclamation of the American policy known as the Monroe doctrine. The governments of the old world should know that seventy million American citizens were a unit in maintaining that doctrine. Instead of remaining merely an edict of the President the doctrine enunciated by President Monroe should bear definite approval of Congress, and thus become a permanent ordinance. Other nations seemed to regard the Monroe doctrine as impotent in guiding the conduct of the . government, and hence they proceeded to the accomplishment of their purposes without much reference to it. In Mr. Cullom’s judgment the time had come when the nation should put the question beyond cavil by a Congressional declaration of the doctrine. The nation had played diplomacy long enough and without much effect. Great Britain had been disregarding polite requests, arguments, etc., touching her policy to reach out further until, if left alone, she will finally dominate Venezuela. The time had come for a plain, positive declaration of the Monroe doctrine by Congress, and then, if necessary, plain, positive enforcement of it against all comers. Mr. Cullom referred to the penchant of the great European powers for the.occupation and absorption of territory of weak foreign nations whose productions were of importance to their trade and commerce. The United States, he said, was the first great nation which had declined to establish any sort of protectorate or to maintain distant colonies. The United States drew the line exactly where it existed at the time President Monroe'nsnde his memorable declaration and where the people believed It should remain. Dr. Robert Safford Warren, an alienist attached to Recorder Goff’s court in New York, has announced that Barbara Aub, who swore falsely against Walter S. Langerman, is a hypnotic subject. Miss Georgia Cayvan, the actress, is rapidly recovering in New York from the results of the operation performed to remove a tumor.

SENATOR CULLOM.