27 JANUARY 1917, Page 3

Fortunately, however, Britain objected to this attempt to bolster up

the hopelessly unjust and inefficient reign of Spain over the New World, and President Monroe was equally anxious to put a spoke in the wheel of the great League to Enforce Peace. Accordingly, backed by Canning, Monroe in his Message to Congress warned the Holy Alliance that the people of the United States would not allow them to extend "their system "—i.e., the system of enforcing peace upon people who wanted to go to war in a good cause—to the American half of the world. That this was sound policy we agree, but we cannot say that it looks very much like Mr. Wilson's policy.