Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1896 — THE AUTHOR OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE AUTHOR OF THE MONROE DOCTRINE.

We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the ahiicabla relations existing between th* United States and the allied powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on thelf part to extend their system to any portiop of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not iiv* terfered and shall not interfere, but with the Governments who have declared their inde* pehdence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and: just principles, acknowledged, we could not view an interposition for the purpose of oppressing them or controlling in any,cther manner their destiny (by any European power) in any other light than as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward tho U.tited States.—* Front Monroe's vwsaaoe to Conoress in December. ISZt, ~,