The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-07-27

affairs of the American States, the
particular kind of interposition being
that underthsken for the purpose Of
controlling their political affairs and
Of extending 10 this hemisphere, the
system in operation on the continent
of Europe.
One Of the Monroe doctrine, Louis
Drago, Argentine minister of foreign
affairs, evolved the now famous ORA
go doctrine, declaring that 1.-THE
public debt cannot occasion armed
intervention nor even the actual oc-
cupation Of the territory of American
nations by a European power This
naturally led to another question. II
the United States expressly declared
against the. occupation of American
territory by a European power, who
is going to take the matter in charge
when country, much the same as
Nicaragua now finds herself persists
In such n course that there is no
prospect. that Its debts will ever be
paid or It's Just international obliga.
lions fulfilled.
President Roosevelt, In answer to
this, tackled on another patch to the
Monroe Doctrine, giving expression to
the function of police power" to be
exercised by the United States in
such contingencies. Chronic wrong
doing" he said in his message of
December 6, 1904, "or an Importance
which results in general loosenins
Of the ties of civilized society, may In
America as elsewhere, ultimately re.
quinre Intervention of some civilized
nation. and in the western hemi.
sphere the adherence. OF the United
States, however relunctatly, in flag.
rant cases of such wrong doing or
importance. TO the exercise OF an in.
terhational police power"
Il may be for President Taft, in
dealing with the Nicaraguan situation
TO formulate still another phase OF
the Monroe Doctrine which has not
yet come into view In the diplomatic
experiences of the United States. AL
thorough President Monroe's name is
attached 10 the, doctrine, the principle
underlying It. goes further back. even
10 the beginning OF the United States
Washington, in his farewell address,
declared that the policy of the United
States was to avoid entangling ALI.
ances with European powers. The
Republican, form of government was.
In contradistinction to the monarchI.
cal form prevailing In Europe, an i'd.
cal for which the colonlsts had fought
and to which they were passionatol,
attached. Anything threatening tsat
ideal was to be looked upon as al
foe.
When. therefore the Holy AS.
lance was formed of the foremost
European powers, with the exception
Of Great Britain, the hedgling repub-
JIG held aluof with some suspicion of
Its purposes, and when the alliance
threatened to support. Spain in main.
tanning Its grasp upon, its American
colonial, which were fast Shining
through her fingers, the occasion for
the declaration OF the Monroe doc.
trine first arose through the senti.
ment underlying it had developed long
before with that declaration the effort
oil Europe to dominate the world was
cnrtailed. The United States$ook lis
place as world power and the Am.
ericdn ideal of government as ,dIstIn.:
spished from that of Europe assum.
ed It's sphere of control.
A similarly momentous change in.
eritably will take place in the orient
when China rises to assert her lndivi.
duality, The world will then be do.
minated by those spheres Of diploma.
tic Acknowledgment, the Ameri.
can and the far eastern. The last un.
donbtedly being under the guidance of
China and Japan. The Monroe doc.
trine Is the political gospel of the
Western Hemisphere. That OF the Far
Eastern is yet to be enunciated.