The Monroe Doctrine.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5

The Monroe Doctrine.

pan.american confer£NGE. OFFERS SUCCESTIONS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] XUnited Presb Association.] (.Received B.IU a.m.) -New York, .November 23. The Pan-American Conference at Worcester discussed the'-Monroe .Doctrine. Mr C. H. Sherill, ex-Minister in the Argentine,suggested that if tne United States intervened, Mexico and olherj South American Republics should act in concert.

, Other speakers urged the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine policy anil the adoption of Pan-American defence. Mr John Hayes Hammond declared that lie would not. invest a single cent abroad while Mr Bryan was Secretary of State. Anyone who made a foreign investment was lacking in sense. Any nation failing to protect its citizens and investors was unworthy of the name of a nation.

The Monroe .Doctrine, a cardinal 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 has ever since been accepted as laying down the principles which guide the United States in respect to the relations of European Powers with tiie 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 those powers (the Allied Powers of Europe), to declare that we 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 we have not interfered, and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any other manner their destiny by any unfriendly disposition towards the United States. It is impossible that the Allied Powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness ; nor can anyone believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference."