New-York tribune., 1899-07-28
THE MONROE DOCTRINE STANDS.
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have not at the same time fatally unsettled me me
sanction Of International Law but TO which they
were known to attach the greatest lmPortantGe t "a "a
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apparently most European publciss have accepted
tbs view. Only slight inquiry is needed to show
The Monroe Doctrine sprang from the & union nor SH El
certain absolute monarchs Claiming to rule not II oy
Holy Alliance against the dangerous spread OF
the American colonies. had kindled the French
Revolution and more or less unsettled government
meant. not only to repress republican tendencies in
Europe but TO assist Spain in reducing again 10 10
estabiisRed in former spanish colonies and had
States Under these circumstances, James Monroe
then President, in his annual message IN &C. iozS
formally announced the famous doctrine IN these
The occasion has been deemed proper for as
terests Of the United States are involved that the
American continents by the free and noe
tained are henceforth not to be considered as sub
ecs for future by any 10 E12ope
is not to interfere in the internal concerns
That is the whole substance Of It, There was no
pledge Of abstention throughout the future and
Germs OF European Powers-ony statement Of
present practice Far less was there piedge' as
Holy Alliance would only refrain from aiding
lean republics into Spanish colonies the United
States would refrain from extending It's instltu-
tions or It's control over any region in Asia or
Africa or the islands OF the Still less was
there any such talk has been sometimes quot
ed about keeping them out Of the Western Hemi-
sphere and itself staying out Of the Eastern Hem-
sphere What Mr. Monroe really said. in essence,
was this: THE Spanish colonies are now Amer
lean republics which we have recognized: Ihey
shall not be reduced TO colonies again and the two
continents have attained such an independent con-
dition that they are no longer fields for European
colonizat ton" That fact remains. II does not
seem probable that ANYBODY will try or wish to
change IT, And the United States has not inter
fered in the internal concerns Of any European
Powers But II is under no direct pledge for the
future to that effect; and as to Asia Africa and
the islands OF the II is and always has been as
free anybody else II encouraged and protected
a colony on the West Coast OF Africa. IT acquired
the Aleutian Islands, largely in the Asiatic M sys.
tenn II long maintained species OF protectorate
over the Sandwich Islands It acquired an interest
IN Samoa and Joined there in protectorate. ~
has taken the Sandwich Islands and the Phil,
ippines And the Monroe Doctrine remains Just
where it always was. Nothing has been done In
contravention Of II and II stands firmly as ever
though with the tragic end Of the Franco Austrian
experiment in Mexico, and now with the hnal dis
appearance from the Western world OF the un-
fortunate Power whose colonial experiences led 10
its original PRONUNCIATION. the circumstances have
so changed that nobody is very likely to have
either interest wish to interfere with IT,