Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1916 — Enforcement of Monroe Doctrine a Source of Future Trouble [ARTICLE]

Enforcement of Monroe Doctrine a Source of Future Trouble

By Senator JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS

of Illinois

THE future troubles of America will grow out of the construction and enforcement of an international contract—designated the Monroe doctrine —that American doctrine which prohibits any government of kings or emperors from establishing their representatives or their form of government upon the western hemisphere. The conflicts which will be waged against America will not arse during the present European w'ar. r R R R THEY WILL COME UPON US AT THE CLOSE OF THE EUROPEAN WAR, SUSTAINED BY THE COMBINED ENMITIES OF ALL OF THE COUNTRIES NOW ENGAGED IN THE EUROPEAN CONFLICT. The desire for the trade of South America by Europe, the desire for a new field of venture and the planting of colonies will bring about the demand on America to surrender her present position in support of the Monroe doctrine. Then will come the first severe conflict of arms. The’ European country defying us will bring its forces to South or Central America and ESTABLISH THEM AND CALL UPON US TO ADVANCE TO THE SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY TO DISLODGE THEM. ‘