Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-30
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
It's Scope and Origin.

A phia'o ,,,, a,
men in these days ana ~ HhpN "s'p ~ AT
.wsnanets. Is "fhe Monroe Doe
tue 49, .,.,,,,it ,h,nk tboro was anne.
trire' oh' =, 80.
thing cahalistc apoul ~ SO misty "ii'
-, mysterious Is the way IN which tho
l.. ,,v.d 1t is popularly supposed ,
phrase % -,,,,,a 90 .ho co,,,t
TO relate ~ pve ,,a - G"no,a ~, ,,i,an
American s'" -s.,,s ,,,y h,a devoivcd unon
shp that IN come way nus ~ y. s ,r
the United SUES 49,, W ''"'
portion or the N,',o...s Sya,,,.na ,i...,, a.,
"What ~ ,his ,,,ss.,,i,,s.on Ga.o,,a ~.
cries out inc nessi''i sr, .,,.ia "as
week, with shees -, N...H,n,. i'o,'
that source Na' " ~, -, .s,,..s'
there IN room LOT ~ a .,''
There are even AiI.i ,, Us
the eonieasion .,.,,,s,,i,,, ,n,sooy,nra,a,,,
defstsnd. or VINO NI.sy ,, Ss.a a.. e" ~,
H. propose 10 i'nP"'' 'a'' ANi"'S 10 ii'S-
tory.
ORIGIN OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE,
4, 1900 and prior to that time. both
,nas,s and Great Britain claimed that
-. ,orthwestern coast Of America, that
tpe ,' u NOW known ms British Colom-
s.A' ~ our own stntes OF Washington
~ oregon was still open to colonlza-
KY IA setflement by European powers.
uv shs. Quincy Adams was secretarv Of
n1Rr IL
80. ~. ds,a IN Julv II. ls2s. no notes an in
s..,,taw he,ween himself and Baron Tuyl
~. p,,,s,ar n,inister ''I told hin, sne
~! M, ,hat we should contest tie right
sp,n.s,o % anv territorial establishment
y M. sarttnsnt and that we should No.
~ ',,.a aistlnctly the principle TINT the
, 49,, continents are no longer sub
,,rts Tor any nsw European colonial es-
its,.hmor,sn
,.snoh m the Monroe doctrine This ma
~. u,o,,,d NOT recognize the right Of
vs,,.,ras, natinns 10 nlant colonies and
.".akilsh anIhorltv over nnv nortIon az me
western hemisphere, as they had done In
the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Shortly after thls the kusslan emperor
Alexander l. suDstantlhily acknowledged
our contention by making no more pre-
tension to press MS possessions southward
from what was then known as fufsian
America, and IS now known as AlasEa'
In ne southern hemisphere lhe oase
was different. In Mexico ana throughout
South America the Spanish colonies had
reVoited and estaollsheu fepuplcan gov
ernments The united states mad aeknow-
lodged their independence, but Spain was
sun making an elort 70 reconquor tnem'
In IN she hopeu oy the alu OF lhe holy
alliance, FEDERATION COMPOSED OIL france,
Prussia, AUSTRIA anu lsussla, 10 WIN naoR
her colonies ana Maue every elort 10
n gain me alliance 10 her causs; nor were
4 We alles uilWlihlk' ~ thls Jnnctute
George canning, me sFltish foreign sec
re,aiy-who never ioveu inc yhl'eu states
! -sussesled 10 MT rush, tle american
minister al LONDON that Sreat bIltalh
Noulu eo-operate WIN the Chlt Gu suites
+ resisting the tesupJusauol, o. tne spun
~, "a. A h, So,I ,, o,n ~ ea,s .,
ms out y mas gwen rise 70 taS opinion
4 mat tanning was iealiy inc lhVphtor'
peonotsr anu Shu'iipion % t"e Mutlo e
esuuhe, Nn"iles euliiiSr III h's rro-
paeuo VOICES ol -An'er'SA ~ upeiuFes'
~ .,,,,tor ,,,ha, pra.,s.,,, ,,a,,.,,.
n sent his message TO congress In pscen-
n l,r, iSs. was this: spain was seeking
10 enlist the ail of the European powers
i. 10 recover her lost possessions in South
America, and Russia was claiming the
II night TO extend her colonization schemes
southwark on the Pacific coast from the
region on the north.
In respect to Spain and the allied pow
,rs Monroe said, after stating the general
situation and the difference of their DO
E3lltlcal systems:
"we owe 1t, therefore. to capdor and
10 the auicable relations existing between
Pie United States and those powers TO de-
E/ liIc tnat We should consider E..y ATTEMPT
I'm their part to extend their system TO
|lhy portion of this hemisphere as danger
bus 10 our peace and safety With the
iisting. colonies or dependencies of any
iopsan power we have not interfered'
snall NOT interfere. But with she
ssliihehts "ho have declared their in
Hepehaence and maintained 1t, and whose
.uependenee We have on great consid-
49, ~ WI JUST principles hcknoWl-
seu, could not view any interpositinn
IVor the purpose of expressing them, or
us III any manner their destiny
european power, in any other
s.s ulail as me manifestation OF an I'M
uH Imposition toward the United
-t
sas uoetrine, 80 stated, has received the
A U soissMeht OF every American statesman
'm mat cay 10 the present time. We
n not propose TO suftnr any European
II 'sthnient OF any South Am ,rican states,
II establish new government ON its
beet few years later. said "sir. I
GA the message OF December. 1923, as
asiug bright page in our history.
" hslp neither to erase It nor tear II
n " nor shall 1t be by any act OF mine
.red Or blotted. Il did honor TO the
u nn'y Of the government. and / will
n oninish that honor, 1t elevated the
y ves and gratitied the patriotism of the
IA paie Over those homes will not hiring
nidew, nor will / nut that pratifed
rolsm to shame"
AS NEVER BEEN DrsspnyTEn trpc,Ar