Springfield weekly Republican

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Tbe story of the United States in the Phil

ippines is too largely a story of blood and

unwilling submission to tempt the people

of the United States to risk a series of

similar enterprises stretching over the con

tinent.

Still more serious objections in tbe way

of tbe United States managing the foreign

finances of Hayti or of South American

states arise on tlx side of the complica

tions thus involved with the European

poweri themselves. The most approved pol

icy of tbe United States, inherited from

the beginning of the republic, has been the,

avoidance"of entanglement* with military

nation*. But now we ar* asked to serve

atone* as th* armed judge and th* sheriff,

to pass upon and to collect tbe claims of

tbe citizen* of various nationalities. Here

is an endless opportunity for complaint,

for jealousy nnd for friction with the gov

ernments of Euro|». Who has mad* the

government of th* United States a judge

nnd a divider over these rival claimants?

oreign speculators will hardly be satis

fied when their extravagant or fraudulent

claims ar* denied. What if the customs

faii to bring iu returns adequate to pay

hungry foreign creditors? What pressure

will not then be brought to bear upon tbe

I nited States to wring larger taxes out of

the peoples,-mostly left out of this scheme

in behalf of the money-lenders?

Suppose now. the United States adopts

the alternative course, in line with all its

precedents and with tbe action of its state

department as late as tbe war upon Venez

uela in 1902. The powers of Europe shall

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1906). Springfield, Mass., 1906-03-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1906-03-08/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1906-03-08.