The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-25
(From United Press Asso.)

WaSh1ngtOn, July 25-Recent dlplO- matic developments and international discussions involving the attitude of European powers-especially Germany toward Nicaragua have brought the Monroe Doctrine into the worlds spot light again and the impression is strong that it will soon be given a new application.
 The Monroe Doctrine is an elastic diplomatic garment,-not so elastic as the popular imagination depicts it, but capable of so much stretching, when occasion demands, that it will fit a multitude of situations however different. There has not been an ad- ministration since it's inception in which this guiding principle has not been hauled out of its historic recesses to do service in connection With one difficulty or another. and indications are that President Taft's will be no exception from this rule.
 The Monroe Doctrine is already spoken of as a most suitable diplomat ic habiliment to enfOld the interna- tional eyesore into which the chaos of Nicaragua is fast developing, while the United States restores order and sets the struggling republic on its feet again. Agitation has already be- gun, too, in the Pan-American confer ence on the part of the Latin-Amerl- can governments which owe much of their development to its existence, to make the doctrine,-nOw merely declaration of the United States,-a guiding principle for the entire wes- tern hemisphere. Such political pro- fession of faith would mark a new era for the two Americas.
 There is little doubt that the Mon roe doctrine of the present day con ll-- ,(Nr1 fkra1 Q f fGAf fl by the President who first gave 1t formal expression. Each admfnistra- ton, in a crisis has tackled new meaning on it or stretched an old meaning to greater lengths until It has become a coat of many colors, but none the less a stout garment and showing no sign or wear.
 President Monroe. in his message of December 2, 1923, said: "The occa- sion has been judged proper for as serting as principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the Amerl- can continents, by the free and inde- pendent conditions which they have assumed and maintain, are hence forth not to be considered as sub- iects for future colonization by any European powers. We owe it, there fore. to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace anu safety. With the existing colonies or depend encies of any European power we nave not interfered and shall not inter fere But with the governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose indepen- ho1 tlOn and on principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of expressing them, or Tn controlling in any other manner thelr destiny, by any European power, or in any other light than as the manifes- tation of an unfriendly disposition to- ward the United States"
 Briefly the Monroe doctrine, as SC uttered, declared against the interpo- sition of European powers ln the af- fairs of the American States, the par ticular kind of interposition being that undertaken for the purpose ot controlling their political affairs and of extending to this hemisphere the system on the continent of Europe. Out of the Monroe doctrine, Luis M Drago, Argentine minister of foreign affairs, evolved the now famous Dra- go doctrine, declaring that the pub lie debt cannot occasion armed inter
 
 ton of the territory of American na- tions 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 Mic aragua now finds herself, persists 1T such a course that there is no pros pect that its debt will ever be paid or it's just international obligations fulfilled.
 President Roosevelt, in answer to this. tackled on another patch to the Monroe doctrine, giving expression tC the function of police power" to be exercised by the United States in such contingencies.
 Chronic wrongdoing." he said in his message, of December 6, 1904, 'ol an impotence which results in gen. eral loosening of the ties of civilized society. may in America, as elsewhere ultimately require intervention by some civilized nation, and in the wes- tern hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in fragrant cases of such