Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-12-18
The Application of the Monroe Doc
trine.


trine.
While evincing Il manifest DISPOSE
ton to create Il contrary impression.
and to WITHHOLD from the people as
far as possible the actual status of
the Situation-this tendency being an
other of the beautiful features of
our newly adopted colonial system
among senators and representatives
who have discussed the Venezuela
question with President Roosevelt.
the situation has all along
been regarded a. serious. The
senate committee on foreign re
lation> made n declaration of the
Monroe doctrine when the agitation
over the Schombur@ line in Venezuela
WAS intense. January 20. 1896, the
late Senator Davis reported the dec
laratory resolution from these com
mitteeS. Senator Gray. now chairman
of the anthracite strike commission.
announced that the report was not
the unanimous action of the commit
tee.
Senator Davis said the action of the
committee was Il notice to foreign
nations and was sufficiently effective
without any vote of the senate, and
accordingly none was taken. The
resolution a> reported was a. fol
lows:
''WhereaS.- President Monroe fur
ther declared in that message that
the United States would consider any
attempt by the allied powers of En-
rope To extend their system To any
i'm, r nj a.
eercuS To our peace and safety: that
with the existing colonies and de-
Tendencies of any European power
we have not mterfered. and should
not interfere. nut that while the gov
ernmentS who have declared their in
dependence and have maintained it,
and whose independence we have. ON
great consideration and just princi-
piles. acknowledged. we could not
view any inteTpOsition for the pur-
pose of depressing them or controll-
ing in any other manner their des-
tiny by any European power i'm any
other light than as the manifeSta-
tion of an unfriendly disposition to-
wards the United States. and. fur
Their reiterated in this message. that
il is possible that the allied powers
should extend their political system
to any portion of either continent
without endangering our peace and
happiness: and.
Whereas. The doctrine and policy
so proclaimed by President Monroe
have since been repeatedly asserted
by the United States by executive dec
laration and action upon occasions
ticular occasion and that eXigency
which caused them to be first an
nounced. and have been ever since
their PRONUNCIATION and now are the
rightful policy of the United States;
therefore. be it
Resolved, That the United States
of America reaffirms and confirms the
doctrine and principles promulgated
by President Monroe in his message
of December ,. y. d.. 1923. and de-
clareS that it will assert and maintain
that doctrine and those principles
and will regard any infringement
thereof and particularly any attempt
by any European power to take or
acquire any new additional territory
on the American continents. or anV
island adjacent thereto, or any right
of sovereignty or dominion in the
same. in any case or instance as to
which the United States shall deem
such attempt to be dangerous to its
peace or safety by or through force.
purchase. cession. occupation. pledge.
colonization. protectorate, or by con-
troll of the easement in any canal or
any means of transit across the
American iSthmuS. whether under
unfOunded pretention of right in
cases of alleged boundary disputes
or under any other unfounded pre-
tentions. as the manifestation of an
unfriendly disposition toward the
United States. and as an interposition
which it would be impossible in any
form for. the United States to regard
with Indifference
But the senate committee on for
eign relations has not enunciated
faith or doctrine in the existing
emergency either for the benefit of
the American republic or the powers
that have allied themselves against a
single little South American re-
public.