Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-01-12

ence was transmitted to John Quincy
Adams, Secretary of State. President Mon
roe submitted that correspondence to Mr..
Jefferson and through him to Mr.. Madison.
President Monroe, after consulting Mr..
Jefferson and Mr.. Madison, ayailed himself
of his annual message of December 2, 1923,
to state the position of the American Gov
eminent upon the subject. The two passages
of the message on this subject are given in
full in another column.
Mr.. Canning was glad of the cooperation
of the United States, but was too much de-
voted to the aggrandizement of England to
accept President Monroe's declaration
against the colonization of any portion of
America by any European power. France
and Russia likewise objected to that prin-
ciple.
The position taken by England, and espe-
cially the announcement by Mr.. Canning
the reconquest of her revolted colonies
would be followed by the immediate ac-
knowledgement by England of their inde-
pendence, undoubtedly had great effect In
defeating the plans of the Holy Alliance,
and, indeed, of all schemes by European
powers to appropriate to themselves any
part of the former colonial dominions of
Spain.
But it was not until January, 1925, that
pendence of the South American States. In
announcing that event Mr.. Canning gave
way to his celebrated burst of oratory: "I
sought materials for compensation in
another hemisphere. Contemplating Spain
such as our ancestors had known her, re-
solved that, if France had Spain, it should
not be Spain with the Indies. called the
New World into existence to redress the
balance of the Old" Thus the English
C{ox ri 1oiy od oro1i@ Cor a 70
due to the assertion by the United States of
the principle which has become so well
known as the Monroe doctrine.
Of this doctrine MIR. Tilden says in his
great letter on our seacoast defences "It is
now over sixty years since we announced to
the world that we should resist any at
tempts, from whatever quarter they might
come, to make any new colonizations on
any part of the American continent; that
should protect the people of the different
nations inhabiting this Continent from
every attempt to subject them to the domi-
MON of any European power, or to interfere
| with their und1sturbed exercise OF
the rights of self government. This
announcement was formally made
by President Monroe, after consultation
| with Mr.. Madison and Mr.. Jefferson. 1t was
formulated by John Quincy Adams. Ou1
Government has firmly adhered to the Mon
roe doctrine, and, even so late as 1865, ii
warned Napoleon III out of Mexico. 1T is
impossible to foresee, in the recent scramble
of the European powers for acquisition OF
colonies, how soon an occasion may arise fol
our putting in practice the Monroe doctrine
1t is clear that there ought to be some rela-
tion between our assertion of that doctrine
and our preparation to maintain it,
If circumstances should demand an en-
fa1.nn anr,% Nf fhn n L 4,
country to-day, hostile foreign nation, see
ing our defenseless condition, might scorn-
fully ask us, "What are you going to dc
about it?" Mr.. Tilden has told us what to
do in his wise words of warning; and there
should be no delay in following his advice