The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-09-28
Copyright, 1908, by Thos. E.
CHAPTER LII.

It1AT ILL
In the authors Napoleon an account Is
given of the royaist reaction which fol-
lowed Waterloo. 1t is there shown how
the kings first used the people against
the great emperor. and then reenanarcd.
reenslaved the credulous people. In
Snain. Italy, and Germany the uprising
AGAINST Napoleon had been made a pop
Mar movement by promises of constitu-
tfons ard democratic institutions The
.,rani once down and securely cagei at
G. Helena. the people were fettered hand
and foot tongue and brain. The church.
ne state. the priest, the soldier. the
dungeon. the rack, political and relig-
,crs persecution In their full ferocity.
feu mon the masses and crushed every
effort at reform.
Ae Or. Charles B. Spahr has shown
IN his Present Distribution of Wealth. "
Fl was during the long Napoleonic strug-
els that the little band of English arts
focra+s gathered up four-flfths OF the
real estate in Great Britain-a process
witch explains why the landlords were
opposed to pe~~~-
The anti-democratic league OF Euro
mean Kings became known as the Holy
Alliance II became their sacred mis-
sion on earth. to put down every kind OF
,,,,,7Iar movement and to reestablish tho
GOOD old absolutism of church and state.
Having crushed. brutality and bloodily.
e,.arv effort Of the people to resist them
IN the old world, their eyes turned to
tho new
The South American colonies OF Spain
had taken advantage of the opportuni-
lies NAPOLEON gave them to throw off the
Tourbon yoke. They had struck for In
dapeudence as we had done.
The Holy Alliance determined to drive
back these South American republics
,f.t0 the clutches OF Spain.
FOR commercial and political reasons,
Great Britain did not favor this design
n the Holy Alliance. and proposed to US
O. seiut resistance to It.
James Monroe was president. and the
,n,nortant issues involved prompted him
a. seek advice from ADLER men than him
s.lr He turned to Thomas jefferson and
Tames Madison.
The year was 1923. the sage of Month
c,lo was 80 years old, and yet his letter
a. James Monroe rings like a battle AK
on the IRON casque OF a foe. The old
time fire was not quenched nor his zeal
abated
Listen 10 the grand old man:
The question presented by the letters
van have sent ME IS the most momentous
which has been offered to my contem-
1!ation since the Declaration of indie
-en7ence. That made US nation; this
sets our compass and points the course
which we are TO steer through the ocean
Of time. Our first and fundamental max
in should be never to entangle ourselves
in The broils Of Europe. our second,
never to suffer Europe TO intermeddle
with cis-Atlantic affairs.
America North and South, has inter
es.s distinct from those Of Europe. She
should therefore have system of her
own
While Europe Is laboring to become
should surely be to make our hemisphere
the domicie OF freedom
He proceeds TO argue in favor of the
English alliance for the purpose pro-
posed. He also states that the United
States ought to acquire Cuba. But wdiv
Ing that for the time, he declares that
declaration should be issued TO the eff
fer that We would oppose with all our
means, the forcible interpostion of any
other power, az auxiliary. stipendiary.
or under any other form or preteXt. and
more especially their transfer to any
other power by conquest. cession or
acquisition in any other way
The letter bears date October "a, 1928.
ana is the first full and explicit setting
forth of the Monroe doctrine.
.1fterwards. in Monroe's cabinet meet
ing. John Quincy Adams, as the histo-
rian McMaster claims. added the fur
Their clause: That land upon this CON
tinent was no longer subject 10 Eu-
rcpean colonizatlon.'
There was nothing added, because JEFF
fersons language covered every possible
form of acquisition.
He distinctly said that the United
ST tes should resist with all our means
the acquisition Of territory here In any