The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1911. THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 88, 2 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1911. THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Yesterday’s Cable messages, among other things, stated that Mr. Roosevelt, speaking at the Memorial Day celebrations in New York, dealt witn the proposed Taft-Grey international peace agreement, and took occasion to denounce the false apostles of peace. Who is meant in this connection does not transpire, but we presume Mr. Roosevelt made this point clear'to his audience. He also said he knew the United States would never arbitrate on the Monroe Doctrine or the question of Asiatic immigration, and ho warned the country not to enter into an international peace agreement unless they were clear on such points. The Monroe Doctrine, which is a car- • dinal point of American policy, was formulated by President Monroe in 1823, in agreement with Great Britain and in opposition to the designs of the Holy Alliance, which contemplated the partition of South America, among the European Powers. It lias ever since been accepted as laying dow tiic principles which guided the United States in respect to the relations of European Powers with the other countries upon the American continent. President Monroe said: “We owe it to candour, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and the Allied Powers of Europe to declare that wo should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing .colonies or dependencies of any European Power wo have not interfered, and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained ■ it, and whose independence wo have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, wo could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any otner manner their destiny by any unfriendly disposition towards the United States. It is impossible that the iiinecl cowers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace' and happiness; nor can any one believe our Southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their .own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that wo should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.” Mr. .Roosevelt, when President in 1902, pointed out that the Doct rino was not a means of aggression, bub defensive in purpose; and that it would bo respected just so long as the United States possessed a firstclass navy. Jn an address on the sub- - jrct, delivered to the Yale Law School in 1903, Mr. Whitelaw Reid said neither of the two essential propositions in President Monroe’s message “objects to transfer of dominion to Europeans by cession, purchase, or the voluntary act of the inhabitants; and neither of'them gives any pledge to any American State that wo would intorlero in its behalf against the use of force for the collection of debts or the redress of injuries, or, indeed, against any European attack.”