Show TH THE REAL MONROE DOCTRINE As the Monroe doctrine neither asserts nor involves any rl right ht of ot control by tho the United States over any American nation it t imposes upon the United States no no dut duty toward European powers to exer- exer elsa such a control It does docs not call upon the United Stat States 8 to collect debts or coerce conduct or 01 redress wron wrongs s or revenge re re- enge Injuries If matters ever como come to 10 toa a point where in any American country the he Un ted States intervenes by force to prevent or end an occupation of an AmerIcan Amer Amer- lean Ican can government doubtless new rl rights and obligations will arise as a on IL result of or the thc he acts done in the tho course of or the inter Inter- Unless such uch a n situation shall have lave arisen thero there can be no duty on the part of ot the United States beyond the tho ex exercise exercise ex- ex of good offices as between equal and independent nations And there Is a motive in the tho proper desire of ot the United States State that no friendy friend- friend I y nation of or Europe or America shall bo be Injured or 01 hindered In tho the prosecution on of Qt Its ts rights in any Rny way or to any extent that hat can po possibly be avoided because that thal nation res respects the rule of safety which Ir tr Monroe declared and we maintain None ono of these reasons for lor or the exercise of the good offices of ot equality Justifies Justine nor do llo all of them together Justify the United States Stales in infringing upon the Independence Independence In- In I dependence or ignoring the equal rights of oC f tho smallest American state sate Nor has hall the United States ever er In any I Instance during the period of ot almost a century which has made the thc Monroe doctrine or the motives which lead ead us tie to support It the ground or cx- cx cuso uso for overstepping o the thc limits which the he rights of or equal set between between be- be tween equal sovereign states A false conception of ot what the Monroe doctrine Is Is of what it demands and what It t justifies of its scope an and of ot its limits has ms invaded the public press and affected pUblic opinion within the tho past rast few years e ulI Grandiose G o schemes of ot national expansion Invoke the Monroe doctrine Interested motives to compel Central or lr South American countries to do or refrain from doing something b by which individual Americans may profit proUt Invoke Inoke the Monroe doctrIne Clamors for or national glory from rom minds too shallow to ta grasp rasp at tho the same time Ume a II sense Bense of or national duty Inoke In- In vole oke the Monroe doctrine The Intolerance Intolerance ance which demands that control over the he conduct and the opinions of other peoples which h la Is the essence essence of or tyranny invoke oko the Monroe doctrine Thoughtless people who ho see no difference lawful awful right light and physical power assume that hat the Monroe doctrine l la 18 a warrant for Interference in the inte internal nal affairs of all I weaker r nations In the lie new world Against I this hla supposititious doctrine man many p protests both In itt the United States and In South America have been made and Justly made To the real Monroe doctrine these have hae no application Senator Senator Root in the June number of the North American Review Revlon |