The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-07-15
MONROE DOCTRINE AS
A NATIONAL POLICY
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Origin of g. Famous Unwritten
Law Now Respected At
Home and Abroad.
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Takes It's Name from President
James Monroe Who First
Stated It in 1928.

The Monroe Doctrine, takes its
name from President James Monroe,
who in his message to congress in
1923 first formally stated It. It has
been regarded as the corollary Of
Washingtons policy of -entangle-
ment In European affairs. One i'm
piled our keeping out Of European af-
fairs; the other Europe keeping out
Of American affairs.
As Originally Stated.
AS originally stated it applied to
the boundary dispute in the north
west in which Russia, Great Britain
and the United States we're inter-
ested. Russia had assumed to ex-
clude foreigners from disputed ter
ritory extending to fifty-first parallel
of latitude. President Monroe said:
THE occasion has been judged pro-
per for asserting a. principle In which
the rights and interests of the United
States are involved, that the American
continents, by the free and indepen-
dent conditions which they have as
sumed and maintained, are hence
forth not to be considered as subject
for future colonization by any
European powers"
This controversy was settled in 1925
by treaty with Russia. This part of
the doctrine was again formulated by
President John Quincy Adams in 1926
in proposed instructions to the de-
legates from the United States to
the Panama congress. ..x='
Second Time Invoked.
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 pro-
posed action of the Holy Alliance
(Russia, Austria and Prussit), as an
nounced In 1922, directed against the
system of representative government
in Europe and aiming at the REIN po-
sition of the Spanish yoke on the
South American colonies then in re-
volt, the independence Of which had
already been cecognized by the United
States. This action by the European
powers threatened British commercial
interests in the Latin American states
and England proposed to the United
States joint declaration against the
action of the alliance. Without
waiting for reply from Washington,
London, notified the French govern
ment of it's opposition. President
Monroe's declaration followed prompt
ly. He said:
The Doctrine Stated '@<
I'VE owe it, therefore, to candor
and the amicable relations existing
between the United States and these
powers to declare that we should con-
slider their system to any portion of
this hemisphere as dangerous to our
peace and safety. With the existing
colonies and dependencies Of any Eu-
ropean power we have not interfered
nor shall we interfere, But with the
governments who have declared their
independence and manifested it and
whose independence we have on great
consideration and just principles ac-
knowledged, we could not view any
interposition for the purpose of op-
pressing them or in any other man
ner controlling their destiny than as
| manifestation of an unfriendly dis
position toward the United States.''
Before that Jefferson had said:
"Our first and fundamental maxium
should be never to entangle ourselves
in the broils of Europe. Our second
never to suffer Europe to intermeddle
| in cis-Atlantic affairs" r5f hi !.
! Rests Upon Policy.
The doctrine has never received ex.
press legislative sanction, but rests
upon the declared policies of admin.
istrations, voiced by the presidents
The interference of the United states
In Mexico. compelling the withdrawn
OF the French in 1866; President
I ICleveland's warning to Great Britain
in connection with the Venezuelan
boundary dispute in 1893 and the
| practical acknowledgment Of the doc.
trine by the European powers in the
Venezulan blockade in 1903 durina
Castro's presidency. are illustration.
Of the actual assertion Of the doctrine
that the United States opposes any
permanent occupation Of additional
territory on this continent by a Eu.
rOpean power. Hit. sst 5# @as5 AsS