I am forced to the conclusion that what these Senators really want is not that all nations shall agree to our Monroe doctrine. but that they should not agree. so that our pride. our vanity. may be satisfied in asserting it as a policy of defiance rather than a policy in which other countries acquiesce. It is a rather strange position for a great nation to take. I shall not at this time discuss what the Monroe doctrine does mean in .tll its possibilities. but I will take the time here to dissent from the view indicated at least by the Senator from Pennsylvania. that we have any right to say to a South American Republic that it shall not permit whomsoever it may see fit to accept to settle in its territory as immigrants. We have no right to say to Brazil. " You shall not allow Germans to settle in your country ". or to Argentina. " You shall not allow Chinese to enter your domains." Our Monroe doctrine does not go that far. and ought not to go that far. Whenever the conduct of any country.
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