The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-29
HOW THE FAMOUS MONROE DOC
TRINE CAME INTO EXISTENCE
The United States is Ready to En-
force II on All Occasions-Has
Been Fruitful of Good
Results

Been FruIIfui or GOOD
Results
The Baltimore Sun, in a recent is
sue, give the following interesting
account of the PRONUNCIATION and en-
forcement of the Monroe doctrine:
1.-The Monroe doctrlne, which was
involved in the recent Mexican sit
uation, takes its name from Presi-
dent James Monroe, who in his mes
sage to congress in 1923 first formal
ly stated it, 1t has been regarded
as the corrallary of Washington's pol
| icy of non-entanglement in European
affairs. One implied our keeping out
of European affairs; the other Eu-
rope keeping out of American af-
fairs
las originally stated it applied to
the boundary dispute in the north
west, in which Russia, Great BNtain
and the United States were interest
ed. Russia has assumed TO exclude
foreigners from disputed territory ex-
tending to the fifty-frst parallel of
latitude. President Monroe said:
THE occasion has been judged
proper for asserting a principle in
which the rights and interests of the
United States are involved, that the
American continents, by the free and
independent conditions which they
have assumed and maintained, are
henceforth not to be considered as
subject for future colonization by any
European powers
This controversy was settled. in
1926 by treaty with Russia. This
part of the doctrine was again form
ulated by President John Quincy Ad-
ans in 1926 in proposed instructions
to the delegates from the United
States to the Panama congress.
The second part of the doctrine,
dealing with non-intervention by Eu-
rope as the first dealt with non-colo-
nization by Europe, related to the
proposed action of the Holy Alliance
PRUSSIA, Austria and Prussia, as an
nounced by the congress of Verona in
1922, directed against the system of
representative government in Europe
and aimed at the reimposition of the
Spanish yoke ON the South American
then in revolt, the independence of
which had already been recognized
by the United States. This action by
the European powers threatened
British commercial interests in Latin
American states, and England propos-
ed to the United States a joint de-
claration against the action of the al
lance. Without waiting for a reply !
from Washington, London notified
the French government of it's oppo-
sition. President Monroe's decIara- !
ton followed promptly He said:
1--WE owe it, therefore, to candor
and the amicable relations existing
between the United States and these
powers to declare that we should |
consider any attempt on their part
to extend their system to any por- |
ton of this hemisphere as dangerous
to our peace and safety. With the exs
listing colonies and dependencies of
any European power we have not in
terfered, nor shall we interfere. But !
with the governments who have de-
clared their independence and mani |
tested it, and whose independence we
have on great consideration and just
principles acknowledged, we could !
not view any interposition for the |
purpose of depressing them or in any
other manner controlling their des-
tiny than as a manifestation of an
unfriendly disposition toward the
United States
Before that Jefferson had said:
"'Our first and fundamental max
i'm should be never to entangle our
selves in the broils of Europe. Our
second, never to suffer Europe to in
termeddle in cis-Atlantic affairs
President Polk in 1916 said:
9" 1t should be distinctly announced
to the world as our settled policy
that no future European colony or do
main shall, with our consent, be
planted or established in any part
of the North American continent
AN ACRE IN MANGoEs OR AVA