The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-25
WAS MONROE DOCTRINE
 SCANNING DOCTRINE? 2"

1 of Britain's relations with Spain and the powers of the Holy Alliance. So the agreement was not entered into. But Rush sent home dispatch containing the proposal to Jefferson Madison and other being made by the United States alone was thus suggested to Mir Monroe, who was at that time President. After con sideration by his cabinet he referred the propostal to Jefferson, Madison and other American statesmen, and they warmly approved 1t. It was adopted John Quin- cy Adams, the secretary or state, formu- lated the Canning proposition. and 1t was embodied in President Monroes mes age to congress on December 9, 1923.
 "The doctrine thus originated by a British statesman, and thus enunclated by an American President, consists of two parts We give them in Monroe's words The first part Is:
 ,. The occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved that the American conti- nents, by the free and independent con- dition which they have assumed ana maintaine, are heneeforth not to be con- sidered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
 .The second part: We owe 1t, there fore, to candor and to the amicable rela- tions existing between the United States and those powers (of the Holy Alliance) to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous 10 our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not inter- fered, and shall not interfere. But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintain 1t, and whose independence we have on great considera- tion and on just principles acknowledged, we could not view any Interpretation 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 un- friendly disposition toward the United States
 There are few sentences more to the same effect, and to this further purport that the United States will not meddle in the affairs of Europe. So the Monroe doctrine owes to President Monroe but little more than its name.
 'The formula of the Monroe doctrine is America for the Americans Its utter ance by President Monroe was received with genuine enthusiasm in England. It had the effect Canning counted on-of checking the Holy Alliances designs in Spanish America No attempt was made by the allied powers to bring back the re- volted colonies to Spain, though they re- placed Ferdinand VII on the throne of that country in opposition to the will of the people. Canning could truly say after ward: T called the new world into ex- istence to redress the balance of the old.'
 '1n subsequent statements of the doc Urine it's application to such cases as that of the present coercion of Venezuela is expressly disclaimed. To the United States minister in Mexico, when that country was in chaotic state, Presi- dent Buchanan sent this instructions
 While we do not deny the right of any other power to carry on hostile oper- ations against Mexico for the redress of its grievances, we firmly object to its holding possession of any part of that country or endeavoring by force to con- trol its political destiny"