THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 88, 13 December 1913, Page 5

THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

MR TAFT IN SUPPORT. [By Eleotrio Teleuhafh— i [United Phess (Received 9.0 a.m. New York. December 12. Mr Tall, lecturing on the Mouroo Doctrine before the Peace Society, ,ai<l : "We cannot be too careful to ivoid forcing our own ideas of Government on a people with different ideas of what constitutes government.' 1 Referring to Mexico, ho pointed out that intervention meant a long and costly war, and he urged the society to support President Wilson's peace policy, contending that the Monroe Doctrine had proved its usefulness by causing tiie European Powers to look towards the United States for the settlement of difficult questions. He expressed the hope that the South American people would realise that the United States coveted no territory outside. The United States ought not to allow the present Latin-American hostility to the Monroe Doctrine to alter (their course.