National Republican., 1880-02-23
I'VE don't care n toss.up
Whether MossoP kicks BARRY or
BARRY kicks MossuP."
THE MONROE DoCrRINE.

its patriotism and devotion to principle.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
FATHER CLAPP, of the Washington REPUB- /,
LICAN, wants tho MONROE Doctrine defined" |
and the American fist shaken in Europes
face. The venerable CLAPP will find Mr..
MoNRoEs doctrine clearly defined" in his
annual message of 1928, but if it defines"
that we are to bully the Spanish-Amcrican re-
pubics and lay claim to the continent of
South America, no reader Of the message has
yet discovered the Gct.-LOuisvWe Courier
JourHdl
As usual our Louisville cotemporary is MS
near right rs we have any reason to expect
of it in its sadly disordered mental condi-
ton. We dnllude to the MONROE Doctrine
and did suggest that the Government should
define its position early in relation thereto
but we disclaim so rude suggestion as
that the American fist shall be shaken in
anybody's face. In this our trling cotem-
porOry draws entirely upon its fancy.
Neither is there word in the article 10
which it alludes that justiies the remark
that we have even limited that this Nation
should "bully the Spanish-Amercan Re-
"publics and lay claim to the continent Of
''South America" IN assuming that we
have done so our neighbor performs another
feat of lively imagination. What we ask
and what the country expects in view Of
the prospective attempt on the part of
European governments to construct a ship
canal across any part of the South Ameri-
can continent under European control and
protection is that the present Admnistra-
| tion of the Government shall assert the
MONROE Doctrine, as laid down in his mes
sage of December 2, 1923, and which con-
sists of two propositions:
First-In speaking of the controversy as
to the Northwestern boundary and the
proposed arrangement with Great Britain
and Russia the message uses the following
language:
In tho discussion to which this interest has
given rise, and in the arrangements in which
they may terminate, the occasion has been
judged proper for asserting as a principle in
which the rights and interests of the United
States are involved, that the American Con-
tnents by the free and independent States
which they have assumed and maintained, are
! henceforth not to be considered as subjects
for future colonization by any European
power.
The above is broad declaration of an
abstract principle in effect that territorial
questions relating to the North and South
American Continents were henceforth to be
managed by the free and independent
States already established upon them. If it
means anything, it means that no European
Power will be permitted to gain foothold
upon the Western Hemisphere, either by
direct colonization, political in trigue, OF
! by the dangerous agencies of gigantic for
eign corporations with n power that over.
shadows the States upon whose territory
they are planted.
In another part of the message, from
which we make extracts, Mr.. MONROE said
in reference to the Holy Alliance that had
been formed in Europe against France
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the
: amicable relations existing between the
United States and those Powers, TO declare
that We should consider any attempt on theil
part to extend their system to any portion oil
this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and
: safety. With existing colonies or dependen.
cies of any European Power we have not in.
terfered, and shall not interfere. But with
the governments who have declared their in.
dependence and maintained it, and whose in.
dependence we have, on great considerations
and just principles, acknowledged, We could
; not view any interposition for the purpose o
, depressing thOm, or controlling in any other
manner their destiny, by any European
, Power in any other light than as the mani
festaton of an uniriendly disposition toward
tho United States.
0 This is the principle of the MONROE Doc.
S trine, and it must be insisted upon and ad-
hered TO by the Government Of the United
States until the grasp of foreign power i
s relaxed from every inch of territory on tn
r. Western Hemisphere. Under that doctlin
it is the destiny Of this hemisphere to be
come the land of the free and the home oi
e the brave. If our Louisville cotemporar.
objects, it may not change the result, ant
most certainly we will not in turn oh
, iect to the little things which form tn
makeup of its existence. 1t can go it
way in such manner and with such meas
ure of nonsense and absurdity as suits its
i own tastes.