Evening star

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r duct themselves well can count upon

our hearty friendship. If a nation

shows that it knows how to act with.

1 reasonable efficiency and decency in.

i social and political matters, if it

j keeps order- and pays its obligations.

i it need fear no interference irom the

j United Staterf.

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an irn

potenco which results in a general

j loosening of the ties of civilized si>-

ciety, may, in America as else when

ultimately require Intervention bj-

Isome civilized nation, and in the

western hemisphere the adherence of

the United States to the Monroe doc

trine may force the United Stales,

j however reluctantly, in flagrant case*

of such wrongdoing or impotence, to

the extent of an international police

j power.”

President Taft followed, the prin

j cipie of exercising the “international

police power” in both Nicaragua, and

Honduras. President WilSoio. did

l likewise in Haiti, declaring that

j “well might the states of (’«mrat

I America believe that the Moaaccioo

i trine io its new interpretation rtfeanc

intervention by the I’nited Sta4&s to

j prevent intervention by Europr^

i

In 1866 an English firm of £nan

j ciers floated a loan for- Honduras.

based upon $5,000,000 of HonWhran.

bonds. It is said that Hcrf&urai*

never, got more than $250,000. <if- the*

funds, the firm auctioning the

and bidding them in. No iuttrent

has been paid’ on the bonds new

1872, and the accrued interest*now' f

amounts to $121,251,000.

holders claim that the

j them a Ijen upon tho entire eSmtry*

j and all its resources, devciodpd or*

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1924). Washington, D.C., 1924-03-26. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1924-03-26/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1924-03-26.