The Wrangell sentinel., 1919-08-14
own doctrine as follows.


 ted States and those( (Europeap) powers, to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system 10 any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or depen- dencies of any European power We have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have de- clared their independence and maintained it, and whose inde- pendence we have, on great consideration and on just prin- ciples, acknowledged, we could not view any interposltlon for the purpose of suppressng them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power, in any other light than as manifestation of an untriendly disposition toward the United States.
 One of the latest official eX ponents of the doctrine. Presi dent Roosevelt, so defined it:
 The Monroe doctrine should be the cardinal feature of the foreign policy of all the nations in the two Americas, as it is of the United States. The Monroe doctrine is declaration that there must be no territorial aggrandizment by any non American power al the expense of any American power on on American soil. It is in no- wise intended as hostile to any naticn in the Old World. Still less is it intended to give cover to any aggression by one New World power at the expense of any other. It is simply a step and long step, toward assur- ing the universal peace of the world by securing the possibili- ty of permanent peace on this hemisphere. During the past century other influences have established the permanence and the independence of the smaller States of Europe. Through the Monroe doctrine we hope to be able to safeguard like indepen- dence and secure like perma- hence for the lesser among the New World nations.
 1 know of no more completely adequate or satisfactory defini tion.
 Senator Root has lucidly defined the now traditional doctrine as follows:
 It is the substance of the thing to winch the Nation holds, and that is and always has been, that the safety of the United States demands that American territory shall remain Ameri- can.
 The Monroe doctrine does not assert or imply or involve any right on the part of the United States to impair or control the independent sover- eighty of any American State. The declaration of Monroe was that the rights and interests of the United States were involved in maintaining a condition, and the condition to be maintained was the independence of all the American countries, We frequently see statements that the doctrine has been changed or enlarged; that there is new or different doctrine since Monroe's time. They are mis- taken. There has been no change. One apparent eXten- sion of the statement of Mon- roe was made by President Polk. x All assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, there has been no other change or enlargement of Monroe's doctrine since it was first pro- mulgated.
 [. Those who oppose league in principle are, in large part, thu men WHO obstructed America entrance into the World War ol the theory of Isolation" or un concern with the affairs of othe nations; a theory never true t. the facts and absurd in this cen tury in which nothing is so i'm