The Republican journal., 1918-10-31
A. |. BROWN, Editor.
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

of Austria and the King of Russia formu-
lated and organized what they called the
Holy Alliance. Not many people in
America knew anything about this
scheme, but those who did know about it
called it the conspiracy of kings, which
in fact it was. The design of the Holy
Alliance was to conduct political affairs
in accordance with religion, and the re-
ligious idea of the adherents to this policy
was the ''Me und Colt" idea. In other
words, the Holy Alliance was formed for
the purpose of setting up little monarchies
wherever provinces could be obtained by
theft, purchase or conquest. After this
was done the next step was to be the
stamping out of democracy wherever
possible Other Holy Alliances have
been formed for one purpose or another
but the one above referred to led up to
the pronouncement of the Monroe Doc
trine which was made in 1928. During
the eight years Immediately following the
forming of the Holy Alliance, its real
purpose became evident to the people of
the United States In 1920, Russia is
sued a ukase fCrbidding any foreign
vessel to come within 300 miles of what
is now Alaska, for any purpose whatever
This prohibition was aimed SO directly
against our country that deep feeling of
resentment was aroused. This and the
entertainments of other European powers
which were manifested elsewhere alarmed
our people and discussion became rife
While this was transpiring On this side of
the Atlantic, the Holy Alliance was hold
ing secret congresses, and it leaked out
that its designs were against Great Brit
ain and several other nations as well as
against the American continent. Even
then Prussia had designs against the
world, and it is reasonable to say that
Russia was a willing dupe and nothing
more Great Britain was of course
alarmed and suggested to this country
that it should take a decided stand against
the schemes of the Holy Alliance, in
either our own affairs or in those of
neighbors from the Canada line to Cape
Horn. At this iuncture, some time in
1928, President Monroe consulted his
Cabinet, and Mr.. Jefferson's opinion was
also obtained. Jefferson made a long re-
ply in which this statement appears:
"Our first and fundamental maxim should
be, never to entangle ourselves in the
brols of Europe; our second, never to
suffer Europe to intermeddle with els
Atlantic affairs" John Quincy Adams,
then Secretary of State, said in this
connection: ''The American continents
are no longer subjects for any new Euro
pean colonial establishments. A score
or more of the leading men of the country
expressed smilai views, and Dec. 2, 1923,
President Monroe sent message to Con-
gress in which the so called Monroe
Doctrine was promulgated. 1t may be
summarized in three brief paragraphs
First, no more European colonies on the
American continents; second, no extern
sion of the European political system to
any part of this hemisphere; third, no
European interposition in the affairs of
the Spanish-American Republics.
Congress took no action and the Mon
roe Doctrine has never been enacted into
our statutes. At first it stood forth as
proclamation which meant Glands Off"
Since then there have been periods when
it has seemed to be nothing more than
dormant policy There have also been
periods when it seemed to be but an
ANTICIPATED theory. But from the first
the people of the United States have re-
garded it as a sheet anchor which at some
time might be needed, and they have
never ceased to regard it with favor. For
almost 103 years the people have seen no
reason to change the doctrine in sentence
or in word. Thus it has become stronger
perhaps, and more effectually barrier
against foreign encroachments than a
statute would have been. From 1928 to
l848 was a dormant period in it's life, but
during the latter year the Indians of
Yucatan were exterminating the whites
who appealed to England and to Spain for
help, and also to the United States. At
the same time we were having a con-
tention with Great Britain as to where
the dividing line between Canada and
Oregon should be fixed. President Polk
favored the Monroe Doctrine and in re-
gard to the boundary he said, "54-40 or
fight" and $40 it was The figures re-
fer to the degrees and minutes of latitude
where our government decided the bound
airy line should be established)
Polk also asked Congress to pass bill
authorizing him to take Yucatan and thus
apply the Monroe Doctrine still further
and at the same time give the Indians a
few applications of civilization vigorous
ly applied. John c. Calhoun, who was
then member of Congress, and never
pa triot, opposed this bill and said there
was no such thing as the Monroe Doctrine,
but before the bill had its passage the
Indians cuddoplx, boooDoo poooaf,,1 r.