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Show THE MONROE DOCTRINE. -In the eastern press quite an animated discussion discus-sion has been started over the Monroe doctrine, one tentleman raising the point that it would have been better for South America and for the I'nited . States had the principle never been announced, ns by this time there would have been colonics all over that country of European nations, which colonies colo-nies would have been to the I'nited States what Canada is, a support, rather than a menace. The Monroe' doctrine was first suggested by Channing of England to our minister to that country, coun-try, and the immediate necessity of it waa to stand . off the "holy alliance," which, as understood in this country, wss a compact ratified in Paris in September, 1815, between the emperors of Austria and Russia and the king of Prussia, by which they ostensibly bound themselves, among other things, to be governed by Christian principles in all their , political transactions, with the view of perpetuating perpetuat-ing the jeaee they had achieved, r That as construed both in England snd the United States as a league through which the , clamor of the masses of the people for more liberty was'to he held in cheek, and for the extension of kingly and church rule. ' It rame just after the final overthrow of th ; great Napolcou and royal prestige which Napoleon had so terribly shattered was striving to pick up the shreds of thst prestige aud power and weave them into a new fabric of tyranny on the old king-ly-priestly Knes.' The only time" that it was' seriously seri-ously attempted win when Napoleon III., seeing our country fearfully involved in a gigsntic civil , war, enlisted Austria in alliance to try to establish ' a throne in Mexico and to restoro in that land- ip "It's most offensive 'form . the reign of . king and priests. , l ' , -' Except for the' announcement ofthe .Monroe doctrine like efforts would have been made to plant branch empires in South America, which would have been the rolling bat k of the chariot of progre.ui for perhaps 200 years and would have provoked a . xlozen exhaustive wars and would have transferred t 'to' this side of the Atlantic- all the jealousies, ail the haggling over spheres of influence that are per-- per-- petually threatening wars in 'Europe. In the meantime as many of the men of Europe - as plessed have come across the sea and have beeu given free hand to develop as much of the new ,. world as they pleased. It may be ssitl that the y governments in Latin-America have as a rule been ' uncertain governments, not inviting to foreigners. That is true, but their troubles have com, mostly . from the ignorance, the bigotry, the fanaticism and .serfdom of 300 years of that same kingly and ; priestly rule which kept the minds of the people in .' thralldom. And they are advancing toward the light. Chile is solid. Argentina is solid, Peru is iu . 'capable hands, Brszil is fast ascending toward the light, and all are working up toward a higher excellence ex-cellence and toward the diricnthrallinent of their peoples. - It is too lste to deplore the Monroe doctrine. , AH the facts point to the wisdom which first canned it to be declared, and the peace which it has iu- sured to the western continent .since. |