The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-29


peace and safety
With the existing colonies or de-
tendencies Of any European power we
! have rot interfeFed and shall not in
/ terfere, but with the governments who
have DECLARED their independence and
maintained il. and whose independence
| we have. On great consideration and
on just principles, acknowledged. we
could not view an interposition for the
purpose Of expressing them. or con-
! trolling in any other manner their deS-
tiny, by any European power in any
other light than as the manifestation
Of an unfriendly disposition towards
the United States. IN the war between
these new governments and Spain we
declared our neutrality at the time of
their recognition, and TO this we have
adhered and shall continue TO adhere,
/ provided no change shall occur which,
in the judgment Of the competent au-
! thorlties Of this government, shall make
a corresponding change on the part of
| the United States Indispensable TO
their security
The late events in Spain and Por-
tugal show that Europe is still I'M
settled. OF this important fact no
stronger proof can be adduced than
7 that the alliec powers should have
thought ii proper, on a principle salts
/ factory to themselves, to have inter
posed Ey force in the internal concerns
of Spain. To what extent such inter
position may be carried on the same
principle is q question to which ali in
! dependent powers whose governments
differ from theirs are interested, even
those most remote, and surely none
more so than the United States.
Our policy in regard to Europe,
which was adopted at an early stage of
! the wars which have so long agitated
that quarter of the globe, nevertheless
] remains the same, which is, not TO
interfere in the internal concerns of
any of its powers TO consider the
government de facto as the legitimate
| government for US; to cultivate friendly
relations with it. and to preserve these
relations by a frank, firm and manly
policy; meeting. in all instances, the
just claim Of any power, submitting to
| injuries from none.
but in regard to those continents
circumstances are imminently and very
conspicuously different.
I TT is impossible that the allied pow
ers should extend their political sys-
tenn to any portion of either continents
without endangering our peace and
| happiness, nor can any one believe
that our southern brethren, if left to
| themselves. would adopt it of their own
accord. 1t is equally impossible, there
fore. that we should behold such in
! terposition in any form with indiffer-
ence.
IF we look into the comparative
strength and resources of Spain and
these new governments and their dis
/ lance from each other, it must be OBJ
/ yious that she can never subdue them.
| 1t is still the true policy of the United
/ States to leave the parties to them
selves, in the hope that other powers
win pursue the same course"
I
message of Dec. Z. 1924, again referred
to Spanish-American affairs in the
/ following way:
Separated, as we are, from Europe
/ by the great Atlantic ocean, we can
have no concern in the wars of the
! European governments, nor in the
causes which produce them. The bal
anee of power between them, into
whichever scale 1t may turn in its
various vibrations cannot affect us. It
! is the interest of the United States to
preserve the most friendly relations
with every power. and on conditions
fair, equal and applicable TO ALL
But in regard to our neighbors our
situation is different. 1t is impossible
for the European governments to in
terfere in their concerns, especially in
I those alluded to, which are vital, with
out affecting US; indeed, the motive
Which might induce such interference
in the present state of the war be-
tween the parties, if a war it may be
! called, would appear TO be equally ap-
plicable to US
1T is gratifying to know that some
of the powers with whom we enjoy
friendly intercourse have appeared
to acquiesce in them"
While President Monroe emphatical-
ly stated the policy of the United
States in regard to Europe to be mot
to interfere in the internal concerns
of any of its powers'-One must see
that the gist of his declaration can be
summed UP under three captions, viz:
First-No more European colonies on
these continents.
Second-No extension of the Euro
pean political system to any portion of
this hemisphere; and
Third-No European interposition in
the affairs of Spanish-American repub-
lies.
In the reference to colonization the
British nation did not seem to concur,
but according to good historical au-
thority that part OF the deciara ton
which dealt with European Interrupt
ton was hailed by the entire English
people with joy and exultation. and in
the British parliament il was the sub
Ject of extravagant encomiums from
such men as Mr.. Breugham, Sir James
Macintosh and Lord John Russell.
On the 10th of January, 1924, the
speaker of the house of representatives,
Henry Clay, laid the following resOlu-
ton before the house:
Resolved, by the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
in congress assembled:
That the people of these states
would not see without serious in
quietude any forcible intervention by
the allied powers of Europe, in behalf
of Spain, to reduce to their former
subsection those parts of the continent
of America which have been pro-
claimed and established for themselves
respectively Independent governments
and which have been solemnly recog-
nized by the United States"