e fleet
back, it could stay there. There was no further difficulty about the
money.

The voyage was at once a hard training trip and a triumphant progress.
Everywhere the ships, their officers, and their men were received with
hearty cordiality and deep admiration, and nowhere more so than in
Japan. The nations of the world were profoundly impressed by the
achievement. The people of the United States were thoroughly aroused
to a new pride in their navy and an interest in its adequacy and
efficiency. It was definitely established in the minds of Americans and
foreigners that the United States navy is rightfully as much at home in
the Pacific as in the Atlantic. Any cloud the size of a man's hand that
may have been gathering above the Japanese horizon was forthwith swept
away. Roosevelt's plan was a novel and bold use of the instruments of
war on behalf of peace which was positively justified in the event.

CHAPTER XI. RIGHTS, DUTIES, AND REVOLUTIONS

It was a favorite conviction of Theodore Roosevelt that neither an
individual nor a nation can possess rights which do not carry with them
duties. Not long after the Venezuelan incident--in which the right
of the United States, as set forth in the Monroe Doctrine, to prevent
European powers from occupying territory in the Western Hemisphere was
successfully upheld--an occasion arose nearer home not only to insist
upon rights but to assume the duties involved. In a message to the
Senate in February, 1905, Roosevelt thus outlined his conception of the
dual nature of the Monroe Doctrine:

"It has for some time been obvious that those who profit by the Monroe
Doctrine must accept certain responsibilities along with the rights
which it confers, and that the same statement applies to those who
uphold the doctrine.... An aggrieved nation can, without interfering
with the Monroe Doctrine, take what action it sees fit in the adjustment
of its disputes with American states, provided that action does not
take the shape of interference with their form of government or of the
despoilment of their territory under any disguise. But short of this,
when the question is one of a money claim, the only way which remains
finally to collect it is a blockade or bombardment or seizure of the
custom houses, and this means... what is in effect a possession, even
though only a temporary possession, of territory. The United States then
becomes a party in interest, because under the Monroe Doctr