(rroxt ovr OWN connesposDENT.)
DISTRUST OF GERMANY, Germany is the country now upper-minds of those who take interest in our foreign relations. To Secretary of War Root is due the beginning of this attention. In a recent speech in New York he made the rather startling prediction that America would soon be obliged to fight to maintain the Monroe doctrine, the doctrine which, put forth seventy-five years ago, declares that no European nation shall extend its territory fon the American continent.—Thouh Secretary Root named no nation as the tone whose hostility is prospective, yet with common accord the American public thought at once of Germany and the increasing influence of German colonists in Brazil.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.