Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-12-20

any OF the parties primarily concerned is a
serious and direct hienacc ID its own integ-
tity, tranquility, or welfare" The propriety
Of the rule when applied ia good faith Will
hot be questioned III any quarter though
he says 1t has been given wide scope and
too often made cloak for schemes of wan
ton spolaion and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. This
leads him UP to an elaborate review Of the
Monroe doctrine and Secretary Olney, stat
ing that the proposition that America is no
part open to eblonizatioh has long been con-
ceded. says that our present concern is with
the other practical application OF the Mon
roe doctrine. viz: That America noh-inter-
vehtion In Europe necessarily implied Euro
peah non-ihtefvehtion III American affairs,
the disregard OF which by any European
power is to be deemed ain act of unfriendli-
hes. toward the United states.
Europe is with single important excep-
ton committed TO the moharcha principle.
America Is devoted to the idea that every
people has an iflaiienable right of sef-goy-
ernment Any European control Of our in
terpsts is necessarily both ircongruous and
Injurious, and II the forcible intrusion OF
European powers in American politics is to
be deprecated. the resistance must come
from the United States, the only power with
strength adequate to the eSigency. There
can be but one answer TO the question wheth-
er the safety and welfare OF the United States
are SO concerned with the maintenance of
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against any European power to justify
and require our interposition whenever that
independence is endangered.
Precedents of the Rule
After quoting from the precedents of
Secretary says:
1t is manifest that a rule which has
been openly and uniformly acted upon
by the executive branch of the govern
ment for seventy years must have had
the sanction OF congress. Nor if the
practical results of the rule be sought
for is the record either meager or OBJ
scure. It's first effect was indeed mo-
mentous and far-reaching. 1t was the
component factor in the emancipation
of South America. and to it the inde-
pendent states of that region are largely
indebted for their very existence Since
then the most striking single achieve
ment to be credited to the rule is the
evacuation of Mexico by the French
But we are also indebted to it for the
layton-Blwer treaty, neutralizing any
interoeeanic canal across Central Amer
lea and excluding Great Britain from
any dominion there. 1t has been used
in the case of Cuba as justifying the po-
sition that while the sovereignty of
Spain will be respected the island will
not be permitted to become the posses
sion of any other European power. 1t
mas been 1nHuenldl III DFlUSlnS ABOUT
the definite REIMBURSEMENT of any sup
posed protectorate by Great Britain
over the Mosquito coast.
Americans Must Decide American CUES.
tiOns.
american questions, it is said, are
for American decision" says Secretary
Olney, and then applying this doctrine
in the reverse, he says:
oil ~ 6,r
to arms over the fate of Turkey, would
it not be preposterous that any Amer
can state should find itself inextricably
involved in the mseries and burdens of
the contest? What have the states of
America to do with the vast armies and
fleets OF Europe, and why should they
be impoverished by wars In which they
can have no direct concern? The moral
interests of Europe are peculiar to her
and entirely adverse from those which
are peculiar to America. Europe Is,
with g single important exception, COM