Bisbee daily review., 1917-06-19
Tuesday Morning, June 10, 1917.
mAxIMILIANs EXECUTION RECALLED.

MAxIMILIANs EXECUTION RECALLED.
In the light of present events it is without interest
recall today the fifteenth anniversary of he
execution Emperor Macmillan of Mexico, whose
untmely end represented the greatest victory ever
achieved the Monroe Doctrine greatest defeat
suffered by the if Imperialism at the hands
of Democracy in America.
American diplomacy has shown brilliantly
than during the trying period of the foreign occupation
of Mexico Immediately reform after the the
between the States The attitude of the United
States toward the Napoleonic scheme establishing
empire the West commanded profound respect
the mind of eood the people Louis Papol-
In the early part 1864, Macmillan assembled
throne Mexico he the fact of aces
sion all the great powers of the world who immediate
ly recognized the empire by sending diplomatic repre-
sentatves to reside at his The Uned States how
took notice of the communication
But in 1865 the situation had wholly changed. The
American civil war had ended and the republic
saved Among the questions of the peace scarcely
less potent than those of reconstruction the stand
ing menace liberties of the empire in the
south
its policy position the
following communication:
Republican and domestic institutions this contin-
deemed congenial with and beneficial
the United States people any country,
in 1922 voluntarily
shed acquesced monarchcal institutions of their
choice all foreign control intervention,
the United refuse maintain relations
with such governments through propagandism,
by INTRIGUE to institutions On
the contrary nation established institutions
republican and domestic similar the United
States its behalf that foreign nation
rghfully intervene by subvert republican nst
tutiOns and establish those of antagonistica char
acter"
This definition of the Monroe Doctrine which
brooked qualification. The Government at Washing
ton followed it with formal demand that Louis
Napoleon withdraw its troops from Mexico. An of
10000 with Sheridan and Custer and other noted civil
commanders, hurried south, charged with the
ostensbe duty of restoring Texas and Louisiana to the
Union but with the real of driving the French
Austrians unless they withdrawn
voluntarily
Louis Napoleon saw the handwriting the wall and
withdrew troops Mexico leaving Maxi
milan his fate. With a dwindling army of a few
thousand the Inflated Emperor faced the advancing
the Mexican patriots He driven back to
Queretaro city forthwith besieged by the
Republicans Reduced the PINCH Macmillan and
his followers forced surrender. The Emperor
and the principal officers who remained with him
tried by courtmartal and sentenced to death. Fifty
years ago today the carried at Quero
taro
Since the days of French Revolution, the his
points such tragic fate had befaen of
the reigning families of Europe The catastrophe in
Mexico wrought irreparable injury to the prestige of
Napoleon. To retrieve their waning fortune the
emperor and his ambitious wife sought eagerly
for some field action. 1t at this juncture
pressure be brought Prussia by France
Prussas retention the fortress of Luxem
burg the basis for the French complaint An
patched by the international conference in Lon
defer the actual break for several years
1870 the that all had forseen newt
able ending downfall the French empire and
establishment of the German empire under the dom
nance of Prussia