Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1936, Page 33

-~ JEFFERSON AIDED * NONROEDOCTRINE Envisaged American Nations Drawn Together by Com- mon Interests. (This is the fifth of a series of articles on the “New Pan-Ameri- canism” and the coming Pan- American Peace Congress in Buenos Aires.) BY BRENT DOW ALLINSON. The formulation of the Monroe doc- trine during the discussions which preceded its enunciation in 1823 owed much to the advice accorded Presi- dent Monroe by Thomas Jefferson. The doctrine as ultimately expounded represented to a high degree Jeffer- son's philosophy of isolation from Europe's dissensions and armed con- Qicts. “Nothing is so important,” he wrote in 1820, afer his retirement from the presidency, to his friend, the Portuguese Minister at Wash- ington, “as that America shall sep- arate herself from the system of Europe, and establish one of her own. Our circumstances, our pursuits, our interests, are distinct; the principles of our policy should be, also. All en- tanglements with that quarter of the | globe should be avoided, that peace and justice shall be the polar stars of American societies.” Stated Reasons to Monroe. On another occasion he wrote to Monroe (June 11, 1823), at the time of the formulation of the Monroe doc- trine, an even more striking, classic formulation of the enduring policy of the United States toward Europe, and of the reasons for it. He said: “I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual Jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated allianges, their forms and principles of government are all for- eign to us. They are nations of | eternal war. All their energies are ex- pended in the destruction of the labor, property and lives of their people. * * * On our part never had a people so favorable a chance of trying the | opposite system of peace and frater- nity with mankind. * * * ” Thus, the Monroe Doctrine, in his eyes, was essentially a peace doctrine, aiming to guarantee the security and international tranquillity of the Amer- ican republics. “I hope,” he said, “no American pa- triot will ever lose sight of the essen- tial policy of interdicting in the seas and territories of both Americas, the | ferocious and sanguinary contests of Europe. I wish to see this coalition begun.” (That is, the coalition of co- operative anti-war policies, which he praised and practiced.) Doubted Latins’ Preparedness. But Jefferson was a prudent Presl- dent as well as a prophetic political philosopher. He doubted whether the Spanish and Portuguese colonies which had just declared and established their political independence in South Amer- ica, were yet ready for the successful practice of self-government. There might be, he thought, some hope for Mexico. “But the others, I fear,” he wrote to Baron Alexander von Humbold:" upon hearing of the progress of the revolt of the Spanish colonies, “will end in military despotisms. * * * The eafest road would be an accommoda- tion to the mother country which shall hold them together by the single link of the same chief magistrate, leaving him power enough to keep them in peace with one another, and to them- selves the essential power of self-gov- ernment and self-improvement, until they will be sufficiently trained by edu- cation and habits of freedom to walk safely by themselves. Representative government, native functionaries, a qualified negative on their laws, with a previous security, by compact, for free- dom of commerce, freedom of the | press, habeas corpus and trial by jury, would make a good beginning. This last would be the school in which their | people might begin to learn the exer- cise of civic duties as well as rights. For freedom of religion, they are not et prepared.” « What Jefferson had in mind, as he | tontemplated the advent upon the | southern horizon of £%galaxy of in- dependent States whose peace and prosperity was of immediate and vital concern to the United States, was something greater than the Monroe Doctrine. It was a society of ma- tions—specifically a group of them | composed of France, Holland and Russia—which the United States | might join, if necessary, in order to guarantee the territorial and political integrity of the South American re- publics—which, he feared, the United States could not safely guarantee by itself, without risking war with one | or more of the European imperialists. For Brazil alone he contemplated a | real and immediate independence, be- | cause “Brazil,” he wrote to Lafayette, May 14, 1817, “is more populous, more ‘wealthy and as wise as Portugal.” American System Seen. But Jefferson was firmly convinced that a time would necessarily come when all the American republics would be drawn together by their community of interests and institu- tions, and perhaps by their fear of European imperialism, until, coales- cing in an “American system, inde- pendent from and unconnected with that of Europe, they would form a ‘world of themselves.” He looked to a shining perspective in the future, when: “In whatever governments they will end,’ they will be American govern- ments, no longer to be involved in the never-ceasing broils of Europe . . . America has a hemisphere to itself. It must have its separate system of interests, which must not be subordi- nated to those of Europe. The insu- lated state in which nature has placed the American continent, should so far avail that no spark of war should be wafted across the wide oceans which separate us from them (Europe), and 4t will be s0. . . . And you will live to see the period ahead of us; and the numbers (of inhabitants) which will Your Dentist Hurts You Try DR. FIELD PLATE EXPERT Double a1} Suction Crewns. $Tn DR. FIELD 408 Tth 8t. N.W. MEt. 9258 then be spread over the other parts of the American Hemisphere, catch- ing long before that the principles of our portion of it, and concurring with us in the maintenance of the same system.” (1813.) Franklin Roosevelt has now the his- toric opportunity to fulfill the pre- scient prophecy of Thomas Jefferson, if the American people will lift their eyes from temporary frustrations and | bewilderments to the fulfillment of the American spirit in the potentialities of co-operative pan-Americarism and a%n enlarged democracy. . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1936. TWO MEN ACCUSED ° IN DEATH OF BRIDE Pretty 24-Year-Old Brunette Had Testified in Theft Case Against Suspect. By the Assoclated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, September 11.—The slaying of a young bride, pretty Mrs. Anrie Mae Adkins, whose wire-trussed and ‘weighted body was taken from & lake Wednesday, brought murder accusations yesterday against two men, Connie Vaughan and Malcom Mc- Daniel were held on formal charges after investigators heard a dramatic story of threats, Saturday night danc- ing and s midnight ride. Mrs. Adkins, the investigators said, appeared as a witness against Vaughan recently in an automobile theft case. Willie J. Adkins, husband of the slain woman, was released after questioning. Deputy Sheriff H. C. Peveler said McDaniel stated he was present when the 24-year-old brunette and another man walked away from an auto- mobile toward the lake, near Birm- ingham, and Mrs. Adkins did not return. RRETRIR ot Linen Trade Stimulated. To stimulate the linen trade the Irish Women's Industrial Developmert Association: held a fair and fete in Dublin at which s parade of gowns ‘was staged and prises awarded. 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