St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-09
HOW DOES 1T APPLY.

getting into the acute stage, pre-
sentS some new phases of the Mon
roe doctrine; a policy that is getting
badly entangled with conditions that
did not exist and were not con-
templated when Mr.. Charming sug-
gested to Mr.. Rush, and the latter
conveyed to Secretary Adams, the
way to balk the Holy Alliance and
the power that was behind and ami
mated it, in their designs to restore
to Spain the control of her revolted
South American colonies. In the
lapse of time and the forgetfulness
of the conditions out of which it
arose, the doctrine has come to
stand for a policy that would debar
any European nation from extend
ing it's territory on the Western con-
tinents, regardless of the nature Of
the systems as Monroe expressed
it, of government they might trans
plant
probably three objects in view: The
preservation of the republican gov
ernments established in South Amer
lea; the elimination from this hemi-
sphere of monarchial European pow
erS that might become dangerous
neighbors, and the further separa-
Of OH TO- ,;al, I,o
anticipated would result from repub-
ican institutions. The systems" OBJ
jected to embrace all these, and the
word was used because it was broad
er and included more than the words
forms of government" In the case
of the English extension of territory
in Venezuela it is true that the En-
glish form of government is mon
archial, but it is also true that it is
more republican than it was even
in Monroe's day, with a constant
tendency to more and more ultra
democracy. But with France the OBJ
jections are all eliminated. France
is a sister republic. She received the
hearty recognition and felicitation
of our government when she joined
the sisterhood. 1t is true that eigh-
teen years later Brazil, too, ex-
changed the rule of Dom Pedro for
the privilege of revoluting occa-
sionally in common with the other
republics with Spanish antecedents
and queer conceptions of republican
government So that it is at best
but dispute between two republics
as to which shall extend over GER
tain territory republican govern
ment.
When Chill and Peru had their
alteration, and triumphant Chilli
carved off a slice of Peruvian terri
tory and added it to her domain, we
do not recall any protest or invoca-
ton Of the Monroe doctrine; although
we believe we did attempt some in
reference that ended humiliatingly,
anent some vague claims of a guano
company of unpleasant memory.
Our recollection is that our govern
ment in that matter received and
pocketed in silence a rather merited
snub from Chill; but, as Kipling OBJ
serves, that is another story. Only
it emphasizes, what may be a posi-
ton assumed in this French-Brazil-
ian matter, that this country does
not regard the acquisition of terri
tory by one republic from another as
being an infringement of the ven
Grated doctrine.
Nor is it strictly true that France
wants the additional land in order
to enlarge her penal colony. While,
until 1864, France sent her ''toughs''
to Guiana Unfortunately, letting
the Indigenous fevers act as her eX-
ecutioners, after that date, with
nice and humane discrimination, she
sent her convicts of European
descent to New Caledonia, sending
to French Guiana only those of Afri-
can or Asiatic birth or descent. 1t
may, of course, afford an opportun-
ity for a new application of the Mon
roe doctrine that France uses Amer
lean territory for a penal colony;
and if our government resists the eX-
tension of her domain for that pur-
pose, it would take grounds made
tenable by our own application Of
laws. 1t may be argued that it is
quite as important that this country
safeguard citizenship on all Amer
lean soil as that it guard the exist
ence of republican governments.
To any protest, however, that we
might make on such grounds France
would doubtless reply that she is en-
gagged in the same great reforma-
tory enterprise with which we in
our states are experimenting. She
| would point out that she is endeavor-
ing to reform and make good citi-
zens of those unfortunate citizens OF
color who have run counter to her
penal laws. She can point to the
fact that the convicts there learn
and follow useful trades; that after
two years, if their conduct is good,
| they may marry, or have their fam
lilies sent to them, and land as
signed them for cultivation; and
that, thus equipped with occupation