The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-01
MONROE DOCTRINE.
WHAT IS IT?

seconded by the other principal powers OF
Europe except as to France, England
and Rome. formed what was called the
Holy Alliance" the ostensible purpose
of the monarchs OF these countries being
to impress Christendom with the fact that
God Almighty, acting under the sane
ton Of His Holiness, Pope Plus VII, had
designated them, and each of them, as
rulers by Divine Right, with perpetual
succession ''to the last syllable of re-
corded time" No more Corsican upstairs
should shatter empires and wear the
diadem; then existing dynasties and or
ders Of nobility were to be maintained at
all hazards, and to this end the last sub
ject and the last dollar of their respec-
tive kingdoms were consecrated. The
United States, then young and frisky,
felt called upon to set q back-tire to this
imperial assumption, and accordingly, in
his message to the Congress on Dec. ?,
1928, President James Monroe, a diSnified
and highly respectable son Of the Mother
of Presidents, announced to "all the
world and the rest Of mankind, that
from thenceforward this Republic would
not interfere in the affairs Of the old
world, and that Europe must not NEEDLE
with those OF the new. This, in essence,
is the Monroe Doctrine" about which
British claims in the Nicarauga and Hon
durus affairs, and later in the Venezuela
boundary controversy. NO European
government has ever recognized the doe
trine as applicable to itself; under the
III. Napoleon, Macmillan was put on the
Mexican throne; that was during our in
ternecine war; after AppottomaX, the
French found it convenient, on the in
vitation of Mr. Seward to get out Of
Mexican territory and waters, leaving
poor Max, to be dethroned captured and
shot by Greasers,-all of which was done
to use an original comparison. in apple
pie order" Nap was very mad about it:
for Billy Seward gave him the butt end
OF the Monroe CAD to the intense delight
of the last lingo at home and abroad.
Viewed in all it's bearings. this Monroe
Doctrine" has an ugly side to it, certainly
no American statesman should object To
foreign interference in the affairs Of
Brazil or Columbia when those Nations
invite it: yet that is a treSpasS upon the
doctrine of the Monroe message. Queen
Lis dominion at one time seemed likely
TO drop into the Lions mouth; the Eagle
at once jumped off its perch and Selling
this 1923 pronunclamento in it's talons. set
up scream which silenced the winds
and waves of the Pacific as winds and
waves have not been silenced since the
"a great Master Gained the turbulent ele-
ments on the sea of Galilee: and Hawaii
was saved to the inheritance of a gang
Of Missionary thieves, who. with the aid
Of U. S. marines depOSed q lawful Queen
and set up in her place an usurper and an
alien to her people and to their traditions
If it be true that these Islanders killed
and ate that Christian navigator Capt
Cook, it would constitute a fitting mem
prial meal for them now to kill, cook and
rat president Dole and his cabinet. The
cannibal tooth doubtless, is there yet
We will now answer the question asked
in our headline more fully by tersely
stating the reasons for the Monroe Doc
self to the soundneSS thereof. We may
say
LIST. The United States have establish
ed here a government founded upon the
theory that all citizens are equal in rights,
mmunities and privileges
I'd. That as a whole, the government
Is the best and the wisest on the face of
the earth; therefore we are admonished
that monarchial and aristocratical in
u stitutions must not be propagated on the
Western Hemispheres; that those which
ire here, must be destroyed, and our bet
tcr system substituted.
To justify our enforcement of the "Mon-
zoe Doctrine" we must make it appear, a
priori. that our institutions, political,
civil and religious. are superior to those
enjoyed by Europeans Upon this ques-
\, ton, the Fourth of July Orator is no
longer authority; the bitter school of
experience has taught us that he is a
rhetorical rodomontade and bicipitous
oraggart. He may applaud and magnify
bur theory; the multitude will applaud
and sing hozannas to The Fathers; if he
were to proclaim the practical workings
= or the theory, that same multitude would
stone him as the intrepid Scriptural
stephen was stoned and with like effect
Look at this Monroe Doctrine" square
in the eye. A faction, say, of Braziians,
having seized the government of Brazil,
pose. determine to transfer her Sever
eighty to the keeping of the British
crown. Great Britain accepts protect
prate over the English which ultimately
means absorption as in the case of India,
or suzerainty as in Egypt. Brazil be-
comes a dependency of Great Britain
without firing a gun, and the United
States are expected to recognize the fact
The Monroe Doctrine" has collapsed I'M
/ less upheld with shot and shell; and yet
1t might be apparent to all Christendom
that Brazil had chosen the good part
IN putting her temporal concerns in such
hands
But let us go a step farther. and sup
pose that any one or more OF these South
American states should voluntarily in
vlte British protection or anneNa ton
%HWould not this harmonize with the basic
4 principle of our Great Declaration? the
II right OF any people to carve out their own
destiny without fear or favor? Theortic-
al craftsmanship has many pitfalls.
Il Go and trace the doctrine down. 1t is
full of meat for such blathersl1ites as old
ingalls, and Bill Chandler. not to come
NJ. nearer home. The British Lion has con-
stant1y on hand an assortment of dunn
my tails of the iack-ass variety. for these
gentlemen to twist as a diversion. They
think it the real article
Yet, undeniably, the Monroe Doctrine
" is the best War-breeder in the American
stud: 1T it breaks loose as an outcome OF
South American complcat ions the half
breeds, negroes and Indians of that see
ton, will comprehend what is meant by
the elegant eXpletive. "hells to pay!'
n But seriously,-we may be stupid.-we
II cannot see that this Monroe Doctrine
short of severe tension, can be said tS
apply upon mere question OF a frontier
line which does not destroy state auton.
amy. Defeated or victorious VenezeuIa
remains intact, except that. if defeated
she has lost a contested claim to a few
& square miles Of miasmatic swamp land
n If her opponent has played the bully the
judgment of mankind must impose tbs
penalty meteG out to public land ano
water thieves.
Until the United States can formulate
financial system which shall wrest from
monarchial control the life-giving prin.
ciple of the money of our people; unit
they can establish tariff legislation which
shall give stability to manufactures; I'm.
REPRESENT GAL Is
til trusts are totally destroyed and stOler
sovereignty restored to the people unit
we acquire the financial ability to provide
revenue adequate to monthly expense.