The Mahnomen Pioneer

WASHINGTON
CORRESPONDENCE

Results Expected From
Hoover's
Sojourn
In
Latin-American
Countries

A good many people in Washington
are expecting that far-reaching
results will follow the visit of
President-elect Hoover to the Latin
American countries. It may even
result in a Hoover doctrine to replace
the Monroe Doctrine.

On December 21, 1823, President
James Monroe sent a message to
Congress defining the position of
the United States with reference to
Central and South America. For a
long time previous thereto, the people
of the United States had watched
with deep sympathy the struggles
of our southern neighbors for
independence. Colombia, Buenos
Ayres, Mexico, Chile and Brazil had
been organized as Republics. They
were meeting with trouble at the
hands of the Holy Alliance formed
by the sovereigns of Austria, Russia
and Prussia, which sought to
enforce the divine right of kings
against the progress of liberal
principles. Joined by France, they
undertook to put an end to the
system of representative government,
and these countries together
with Spain and Great Britain, and
all the rest of the European crowd
of royalists, were attempting to get
possession of those southern countries.
Washington, Adams, Jefferson
and Madison had been busy
protesting against the aggressions.
This resulted in Monroe counseling
with the best minds of his time
after which Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams informed the Russian
Minister that the United States
should contest the right of Russia
to any territorial establishment
on this continent, and that we
should assume distinctly the principle
that the American continents
are no longer subjects for any new
European colonial establishments."

It was in connection with this pretension
of Russia that President
Monroe declared in his message a
few months later, that "the occasion
has been judged proper for asserting
as a principle, in which the
rights and interests of the United
States are involved, that the American
continents, by the free and
independent condition which they
have assumed and maintained are
henceforth not to be considered as
subjects for future colonization by
any European powers."

For a century the United States
has stood firmly behind these principles,
risking many wars with European
nations in order to maintain
the integrity of its accepted
doctrine. As a result all of Central
and South America is free. Some of
their countries are strong in their
own rights and possessions.

So we have a condition that has
become so changed that some of
the Republics which we have protected
in the past feel that they
should be accepted into fuller partnership
with the great republic of
the United States. In other words
the children of the family have
grown up and now that they are
of age they are asserting their right
to equal participation in the combined
enterprise of American Republics.
So that's that.

If we have a proposal for a Hoover
doctrine to replace the Monroe
doctrine it will be based upon the
above conditions in international
affairs of the new world.