New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-02-13

The great rule of conduct for us IN regard
to foreign nations is in extending our commercial
relations to have with them as little political con-
nection ms possible. So far as we have already
formed engagements let them be fulfilled with
perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Europe has a set of primary interests which
to us have none or n very remote relation. Hence
she must be engaged in frequent controversies,
the causes of which are essentially foreign to our
concerns. Hence, therefore. II must be unwise In
us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the
ordinary vicissitudes Of her politics or the ordl-
nary combinations and collisions Of her friend
ships or enmities.
"Our detached and distant situation invites ana
enables as to pursue Il different course. If we
remain one people, under an efficient government
the period is not far off when we may defy mi-
teriaI injury from external annoyance; when we
may take such an attitude as will cause the neu-
trality we may mt any time resolve upon to be-
scrupulously respected when bellicerent nations,
under the imposSibility of making acquisitions
upon us. will not lightly hazard the giving us
provocation: when we may choose peace or war,
as o1r interest. guided by justice, shall counsel.
why forego the advantages of SO peculiar a
situotiou? WHY quit our own to stand upon for
nicn ground? Why, by Interviewing our destiny
with that of any part of Europe. entangle our
neoce and prosperity in the tolls of European am
bition, rivalship. interest, hnmor or caprice?
"It is our true policy To steer clear of perma-
ncnt alliances with any portion of the foreign
world.
Taking care always to keep ourselves by suit.
able establishments on "A respectable defensive
posture, we may safely trust to temporary al
liances for extraordinary emergencies.
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations
are recommended by policy, humanity and inter.
est. But even our commercial policy should hold
an equal aud impartial hand. neither seeking nor
granting exclusive favors or preferences;
constantly keeping i'm view that it is folly in one
noiion to look for disinterested favors from an
other; that it must pay with a portion OF its in
dependpnce for whatever ii may accept under that
character; that by such acceptance it may place
Itself i'm the condition of having given equivalents
for nominal favors. and yet of being Ieproached
with ingratitude for not giving more. There can
he no greater error than 10 expect or calculate
upon real favors from nation to nation. 1t is an
illusion which experience must cure, which a just
pride ought to discard
The Monroe Doctrine dates from a declaration
December =, 1923, by President James Monroe
in his seventh annual message to congress. The
Holy Alliance, formed in 1915 by fiussia. Austria
and Prussia, was threatening 10 help Spain re-
cover control of South America. Russia and the
United Suites were in controversy over the Pa
cific coast boundaries. The cub Of the Monroe
Doctrine is in these two paragraphs:
an the discussions TO which this interest (the
Russian controversy has given rise. and in the
arrangements by which they may terminate, the