| Show MONROE DOCTRINE AS ASA ASA ASA A SAFEGUARD The true end of ot every great eat and free people should be pear peace and aad this nation most t earnestly dec res sincere and cordial friendship with all others Over the entire world of re recent reent ent yeses years y wars between the great d ti powers have become less and less Jeas fie fre tr quent quest Wars with barbarous or semi barbarous rous peoples come in an entirely Jy different category being bei merely a m mast t regrettable r but necessary International police poUce duty which must be performed v for the sake of the welfare of or man ma mankind makind kind Peace can only be kept with certainty where both sides wish tj t I keep it U but more and more the ci civil civilIzed ii peoples are realising the wicked folly of war and are attaining that con condition of ot just ju t and intelligent rega regard d for the rights of others which will in inthe inthe the Ute end as we hope and believe ma nia WorldWide peace possible The peace peale at The Hague gave defini t e expression ex ton to this hope bope and belief and marked a 8 stride toward their attai i ment meat This same peace pence conference ference acqui acquiesced i mend in our statement of at the Monroe onro doctrine as compatible with the pu poses and aims alms of or the conference The Monroe doctrine should be the cardinal feature of at the foreign poll poli y v of all the nations of tile the two America as H t te is of the United States Just se sev years have bave passed sim e President Monroe in his hit annual me sage ap announced that The Americ American it 11 continents are henceforth not to l le considered as a subjects for future ct lI s by any European Eur power No Foreign Colonization In other words the Monroe Monree doctrine d is a 8 declaration that there must mu t be no territorial aggrandizement by any not non American power at the expense of any an American power on American soil it itis j 1 t is in hi no wise intended as a hostile to an r nation in the Old World Still less is isIt is isit isIt It intended to give dve cover to any aggree aggression sion slon by one New world power at th the expense Dee of ot any other It is I simply a astep 1 step and md nd a long step toward assuring the universal peace of the world by Jy s 5 curing the possibility po of permanent peace pe on this hemisphere During the past century other info influences Influences have established e the permanent anti and independence of the smaller states of af Europe Through the Monroe lonroe dot dOf trine trifle we hope to be able to safeguard like Uke independence and secure like per pei permanence c for the lesser among the N New v f World nations IN IX INThis 4 This doctrine has nothing to do 4 4 4 with the commercial relations of 4 any aU American power save ave that it ItIn 4 4 in truth allows each of them to 4 4 form such auch as it desires lre de In Ia other 4 words it is t really a guaranty of 4 4 the commercial independence of ot 4 4 the Americas We do not ask uk un In Inder 4 4 der tier this doctrine d for tor any exclusive 4 4 commercial dealings with any oth other 4 4 er American state We do not 4 4 4 guarantee any state against pun 4 if it it misconducts itself 4 provided that punishment does not 4 4 take the form fonn of the acquisition of 4 4 territory by any 4 4 power 4 Oar 01 attitude In hi Cuba is a sufficient guaranty of our own good faith We Wf nave have not the slightest desire to secure any territory at the expense of or our J neighbors J We wish to work with then them v j Hand in hand so 80 that all of us may be f uplifted together t ther and we rejoice over ever veT the good fortune of any of them we gladly hail bail their material prosperity pro and political p stab stability and are ere con concerned concerned and alarmed if it any of them fall Into industrial or political chaos We Wedo Wede Wedo do de not wish to see any Old World mil soil military military power grow up on this continent or to be compelled to become a mili mill military military tary power ourselves The peoples of the Ute Americas can prosper best bat If it left to work out their own lv n In their theil own way |
