The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-01-03


peace and safety.
with the existing colonies or de-
tendencies of any European power we
have not interfered and shall not in
tertere; but with the governments who
have declared their independence and
maintained it, 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-
| thorities of this government, shall make
! a corresponding change on the part of
the United States indispensable to
their security.
1.-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
, that the allied powers should have
l
factory to themselves, to have inter
posed by force in the internal concerns
of Spain. To what extent such inter-
| position may be carried on the same
! principle is question to which all 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 it's 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.
1T 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
|
| 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
vious 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
will pursue the same course.
President Monroe. in his annual
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
ance of power between them, into
whichever scale it may turn in its
various vibrations, cannot affect US. 1t
| 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
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
a 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 declaration
which dealt with European Interrupt
ton was hailed by the entire English
people with joy and exultation, and in
the British parliament it was the sub
ject of extravagant encomiums from
! such men as Mr.. Brougham, Sir James
I Macintosh and Lord John Russell.
! On the Goth 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"