Courier Democrat

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barous peoples it does it with its eyes

open, it takes its own risk, and the

armies and navies of tbe world, espe

cially those of the United States, main

tained by taxing the people, cannot

be used as constables without warrant

or other process for debt collection pur

poses.

"If I choose to buy Dominican or

Venezuelan securities or permit Haiti

or either of the other countries to ran

in debt to me it may be that I am a

fool from a business standpoint, but

my folly does not entitle me to have

my debts collected by tbe navy and

army of the United States, and tbe

government of tbe United States ought

not only not to place itself to that atti

tude, but it ought to go further and an

nounce to the world that, so far as tbe

hemisphere of America is concerned,

at any rate, collection of money ob

ligations by bombardment must cease.

If a private individual killed another

because that other bad fraudulently

Incurred a debt which he refused to

pay we would bang the individual who

did tbe killing.

"You ask me if tbe president's policy

as outlined in tbe quotation by you

'increases expenditures for the army

and navy' and whether this letter to

ex-Secretary Root, read upon tbe oc

casion referred to, 'would leave a per

petual sword of war hanging over Cen

tral and South America and ourselves.'

"Of course it does and would, or else

the utterance in the letter is mere im

potence—and Impotence,' by the way,

'which results to a certain degree in a

general loosening of the ties of civi

ized society.' Tbe utterance Is of

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Courier Democrat. (1904). Langdon, N.D., 1904-07-21. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88076432/1904-07-21/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Courier Democrat, 1904-07-21.