Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — We Shouldn’t Worry About Monroe Doctrine [ARTICLE]

We Shouldn’t Worry About Monroe Doctrine

By HUNTINGTON WILSON, Assistant Secretary of State In Taft Administration WE ought to be able to discrim ; inale between the vastly different republics, and we ought not to overrate their solidarity and mutual affection. Granting the MONROE DOCTRINE TO BE OBSOLETE as a unilateral policy in the sphere of the “A B 0 countries,” the opening of the Panama canal would be a curious occasion to consider the abandonment by the United States of its mandate in tlie Caribbean. There is room indeed for mutually advantageous co-opera tibri through commerce and In spite of a great difference of temperament, international, like domestic, politics often makes strange bedfellows. ONE MUST AGREE WITH PROFESSOR BINGHAM IN HIS DEPRECATION OF OMIT ABOUT SYMPATHY SO FAR AS RACIAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE CONCERNED AND ABOUT GEOGRAPHICAL PROXIMITY WITH THE DISTANT SOUTH. AS HE SAYS. KEY WEST IS NO NEARER RIO DE JANEIRO AND BUENOS AIRES THAN IS GIBRALTAR. This suggests that Buenos Aires is not appreciably nearer the Caribbean than Key West is near to Bgenos Aires and that by the same token it is quiie as absurd for the Chilean, Brazilian and Argentinian to worry about American policy in the Caribbean as it would be for the UNITED STATES TO WORRY ABOUT THE MONROE DOCTRINE AT CAPE HORN,