Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — Monroe and Hay Doctrines Practically Identical in Their Principles [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Monroe and Hay Doctrines Practically Identical in Their Principles

By Representative JULIUS KAHN

of California

The United States during its comparatively brief history has formulated two distinct fundamental foreign policies. One is known as the Monroe doctrine; the other, the Hay doctrine. In principle the two dootrines are practically identical. One refers to the countries of Central and South America, the other to China. The Monroe doctrine was intended to protect the Latin American states against European aggression. It was never intended to obstruct cr to regulate the commerce or social relations between the republics on the western hemisphere and the countries of Europe

and 'Asia. As a matter of fact the European countries in many instances have developed a much more extensive trade with Latin America than has our own country. Under the Monroe doctrine our citizens are not given any superior or preferential position in regard to the commerce of the financial and social relations of the nations of the western hemisphere. The Hay doctrine was intended to prevent injustice to China. It attempted to preserve the territorial integrity of the Chinese empire and secure the maintenance of the principle of equal commercial opportunity for all nations that might desire to securt trade in China, The latter principle became known to the world as the policy of the “open door.” There was never any attempt either in the Monroe doctrine or the Hay doctrine to secure special privileges for ourselves in the countries of Latin America or China. On the contrary, we as a nation have always intended that all maritime countries should enjoy commercial, financial and industrial rights, opportunities. and privileges in the countries included in the Monroe doctrine and the Hay doctrine.