Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-10

many iEtUrpEt titiuuS, and hVnCN it is that EvwSp:tpvrS and individuals hold ing diametrirally opposite views aro alike quoting th" famous dCliveranCc ill support of their own positions. and some arc giving tO it all the Importance that would hc accorded d solemn treaty br- tween nations ar a part of the written law. For tho benefit If thuSo who have never read tho m,.>sagr i'll which the passages now sO uftrn referred tu uC- cured the essential sentences arc h,rc reproduced:
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 'Tii,. 'v.Si",I t..r tnj~ lI->>;',,' WAS the prrilu>,d Il d jIuu ut RL>>!a, Prussia I:.d Austria, the three powers compu>iu-; tine holy alliance The alliance w.Is formed i'll lNI5 r the avuwcd purpose of protecting and spreading tho Chris tian religion, hut really to check and, if possible, stop tho rising tide of repub- licanism which had not only become well grounded i'll America, but had z a very good start i'll Europe. It was pro posed among other things to restore Spanish dominion in South America. France had thrown its weight with the allied powers, and England had been asked to do su. IL was En2laud's refusal which led tI Munruu's CnanCiaUou, and it is doubtful that he would have been SD uu,>puiru had it not been for definite assur:.uv.s regarding the attitude of Great Britain.
 Co-upt ration between tho two great
 English sl.cAhInc EAti"nS ut the world w,.S necessary Ht that time for the wei faru ut lulh. The alliance had invited the United States as well aS EHS land tO | join the. culrl;..rt. but it Was evident tu both Suv,rhIuvutS that neither could IblN' l't S'A''L sAtiN NiLN4Ar~ ANN 'A' 'N+AAAS tL;4t, un tho (, utrIry, IL would tV tn the disadvuuA.r uf l,th Neither, however, cauld have we'll afforded 10 oppose tho
 alliance single handed, but when both | declared against tho scheme the alliance | died a natural death. Of course Eng lands attitud" was largely the result of | seltiShncsS, ami Sn indeed was that of
 the United StAt,<-tilat higher selfish
 ness which mvn call patriotism and i'll
 which most r:"n take great pride.
 It was d CuriuUS continuation of cir
 rumstamc.., that made it exp, dient for
 this country tn join hands with Eng
 land, the only I".yvr with which it | had ever engaged III serious war. and
 which II l;4L twice dv!yA.rd It l. per haps qui;r D, curious that the first Irac-
 tical application Ct th,' Monruc doctrine
 was made against Euglaud by the Unit
 ed States when England sought to es- tabli>h a prutcctorate over that part of | Central America known aS the Mosquito | Coast In fact, most of the talk concern | ing the Monroe doctrine has been in | spired by actual or suspected dOings on | the part of Great Britain. and the trOu- | ble in Nicaragua now has to do with
 the same Mosquito Coast which Great
 Britain pSopoSed to bring under her do- l ninion many years ago