The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1895. THAT MESSAGE !

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 153, 30 December 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1895. THAT MESSAGE !

■ -♦ Tht;: message of President Cleveland, which has created such a sensation in the civilised world and been the cause of such a terrible financial disaster in the United States of America, is based on what is known as the Monroe doctrine enunciated by President Monroe to Congress in 1823. The paragraphs of the rressage, taken together, rjre sent three distinct articles of faith or principles of action : — 1. That the American continents (leaving out the islands) are henceforth not to be considered subjects for any future colonisation by any European nation. 2. That America will consider any attempt on the part of the European Powers to extend their political system to any part of America as "dangerous to our peace and safety, and to be counteracted or provided against as we shall deem advisable in any case." 3. That for any European Power to interfere with any American Government for the purpose of oppressing or dictating to it unjustly, or of controlling its destiny by force or threats, would be viewed by America as " the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States, which we should be called upon to notice by protest or remonstrance, or in such, way as we should think our honor and interest required." These were only the views of one man, they were never endorsed by Congress, and none of the European Powers ever signified their approval of them. The cause of the declaration was the anj tagonvsm of the two political systems j of Europe and America, and the object was not merely to prevent the danger

of invasion. As the Napier Telegraph points out, the " Holy Alliance " for the maintenance of the order of things which had been established in Europe | had taken it under advisement to ex- j tend its care to the young American Republics of Spanish origin, and to convert them into monarchies, to be governed by Sovereigns of European stocks. It was against the extension of this European system to the two Americas that President Monroe protested in his famous message."