Arizona republican., 1912-05-10
stretchinq the Doctrine?

II TflEfe Is IIIIbuQNtu III llit OIItIGh States senate a resolution aimed against the use of Magdelena bay, Lower California, as the site of al colony of Japanese. will it be a ma terial expansion of the Monroe doc urine? Will not such a resolution be. in exact accord with the elements of the doctrine? In other words, was not the Monroe doctrine intended to cover colonization projects by Euro pean governments just as much as the extension of their systems" in the western hemisphere? Let us look into the recorded facts.
 In 1923 our minister to Great Britain was Richard Rush, and John Quincy Adams was our secretary of state. In communication to Mir Rush. in which the claims of Russia, Great Britain and the United States to the title to the northwest coast of North America were considered. MT. Adams said that the American con- tinents henceforth will no longer be subject to colonization" and the Pacific ocean, in every part of it, will remain open to the navigation of all nations in like manner with the Atlantic
 Two weeks later, on July r, 1923, Secretary Adams had conference with Baron Van Tuyl, the Russian minister at Washington, concerning this territorial dispute, and MT. Adams took occasion to say that We should assume distinctly the principle that the American con- tinents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establish ments." This principle was embodied by President Monroe in his message of December ,, 1923, which message Monroe said that the American con- tinents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not 10 be considered by any European powers"
 John Quincy Adams succeeded MT Monroe as president, and on Decem- ber 26, 1925. in message relating to the proposed conference at Panama between representatives of the vari- ous American governments, pointed out that the United States would suggest that an agreement between all the parties at the meeting that each will guard, by it's own means against the establishment of any fu- ture European colony within it's bor- ders, may be found advisable" In 8 similar message of March 15, 1926 President Adams said the United States would favor "a mutual pledge from the various governments on the American continents to, among other things. permit no colonial Judgments or establishment of European juris- diction upon" the soil of the respect. i've governments.
 President Woolsey, of Yale college in discussing the Monroe doctrine said that the original declaration a. 10 colonization was too strong, bu other scholars have differed witt him, on the ground that the rest. less ambition" of one people or an. other for colonial expansion, no necessarily subsidized by any govern ment. may at any moment bring about a situation, as at present, O grave import to the United States.
 From what has been said it is evi dent that from the first American statesmen intended that the Monro doctrine should apply in cases O colonization. To have it so apply a present will not stretch it in tn least. Of course, it is to be borne il mind that in the present case Japal has said she has no personal inter est. But Senator Lodge and other take the position that the effort i being made by a corporation com posed of Japanese, and that corpora ton ownership of a strategic poin like Magdalena bay is thin veil, and should be jealously guarde against by the United States. MI Lodge holds that the situation amply covered by the Monroe doc Urine.