The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-15
Dead American
Rules Conference
By William Philip Simms

PARIS, May 1.-(By Mail. J.
Stephen Lausanne, editor of 81
Matin" considers that 1t will be i'm
possible ever to reconcile the Monro
Dostrine with the idea of league O.
nations. He said in LIE Matin:
'If things continue to go as the!
are going now Monroe will finish The
biggest figure in the peace conference
At present his is the only figure be
fore which everybody bows.
"Who was Monroe?
Monroe was born in a carpenter
shop and IS time went on, engaged ir
most all the trades. He was colonel
lawyer, merchant judge, ambassador
secretary of state Moreover, he die
all of them well.
'In 1917 he became President OF
the United States.
about that time political temp
est was blowing strong in the Old
World. United under the name of
the Holy Alliance the European gov
ernments talked nothing less than the
establishment of an absolutism, first
in Europe, then in America.
Monroe saw storm clouds coming
his way and called his cid friend,
Thomas jefferson, philosopher and
friend of the French Philosophers
d'Tlembert and Condorcet, to a con-
sultstion. Whereupon jefferson
wrote:
America, both North and South,
has interests Absolutely distinct from
those of Europe and which belong to
her alone. 1t is necessary, therefore,
to establish! the principles Of sys-
TEN whcih SHALL keep these interests
separate from those of the Old World
While the latter is trying to make
itself the rome of dcspotism our hem
isphere is trying to make itself the
land of liberty
Monroe found the suggestion
good, so on Dec. 2, 1928, in an ad-
dress to Congress at Washington, he
put the idea into slightly different
words. He said:
" Our politics has always consist
ed, and always should consist, in TAX
ing no part in European wars. Also
we have always abst; ined from inter-
vcning in the affairs of the colonies
or dependencies of European nations
and we shall continue so to DO. But
for those which have won their indie
pendence and obtained recognition as
states, we can not but consider as an.
act hostile to the United States any
Intervention having for object the op-
preston or control in any manner
whatever, of the destinies of these
same
"There it was! 1t was done! A
new doctrine was born.
"Now is this Doctrine of Monroe
by the league Of nations pro-
.ect?
at seems to me monumentally par
adoxical and a trifle infantile to pre-
tend the contrary.
when the executive council of the
league of nations fixes the reasonable
limits of the armament of Peru;
when it shall Demand information con
corning the naval program of Brazil
article 8 of the covenant) when it
shall tell Argentine what shall be the
Of the contribution to the
armed forces to protect the signatures
of the social covenant art. 16D;I
WuCl IL SIldll uGindHu Lue lHlDuldJe
registration of the treaty between
the United States and Canada at the
seat of the league, it will control,
it wills or no, the destinies of
America. And when the American
States shall be obliged to take hand
in every war or menace of war in Eu-
rope (Art. 11), they will necessarily
fall afouf of the fundamental princi-
pie laid down by Monroe which was
that Americans should never take
part in a European war.
''If the league takes in the world, /
then Europe must mix in the affairs
Of America; if only Europe is includ-
ed, then America will violate of ne
cessity her own doctrine by intermix-
ing in the affairs Of Europe"