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States wrangling overta treaty whose
whole purpose is to make us overload,
guardian, curator and trustee of the
so called republic of Santo Domingo.
The treaty is simply srehash of the
modus vivendi which President Roose-
welt established with his great and
farseeing'' friend President Morales.
His friend was also fleet footed, as is
demonstrated by the fact that he has
taken himself to foreign parts, leaving
his great and farseeing friend in the
White House with the bag to hold.
The enforced colonists Of Botany bay,
to enliven the tedium OF their Danish
ment, got them up a play, two lines
of which ran thus:
True patriots we for be it understood
We left our country for our country's
good.
Without any exaggeration whatso-
ever the ex-bandit president Morales
could appropriate those lines as his
own. They fit his case like a glove.
AS Morales vanishes into space Presi-
dent Roosevelt is in the sad situation
Of Lord Ullin on celebrated and I'M
happy occasion, for 'he is left lament
ing"
OF course the hasty departure of
Morales from his country, notwith-
standing the modus vivendi and not
withstanding our protecting gunboats,
was a ludicrous performance, but the
attempt of the Washington administra-
ton to assume a suzerainty over San
to Domingo, first without a treaty and
then with a treaty, is the most sense
less, un-American, revolutionary and
dangerous thing ever attempted by any
American administration.
Why should we set up as universal
constables? If we take over to our
selves the task of policing Santo Do
mingo and Of collecting and disbursing
her revenues, why not do the same for
Haiti? The reasons are just as strong
and persuasive in one case as the other.
If Santo Domingo and Haiti, why not
also SET, up as guardians, curators, con
stables and guarantors of all the seeth-
ing, bubbling, wrangling, jangling
bankrupt republics of South and Gem
tral America? There is absolutely no
end to our work, worry and danger If
we elect ourselves universal constable
for the western hemisphere.
But it seems that under the policy OF
the big stick and little wisdom we are
not even to confine our constableship
to tile western hemisphere, for Ameri-
can commissioners are now in Morocco
mixing IN with african statesmen dip
ping into European quarrels about Af-
rican spoiIs and at the same time the
administration is massing troops and
munitions Of war in the Philippines in
order to play constable over China. At
this rate the day is not distant when
our arms viii glitter from China to
Peru, but also when the bones of our
soldiers will lie rotting in every coun-
try not possessed of an army and navy
big enough to warn US off and keep us
out. That may be an alluring prospect
to the Don Qaixotes of America, but
it is a sickening prospect to sober mind
ed people who desire to see this great
republic endure forever. 1t certainly is
NOT al oulrdHSiIS VJoion " lAC AdtncAs
and mothers of the land whose sons
will die in. foreign and PARKWAY coun-
tries or to the American taxpayers who
must pay the fiddler in this wild dance
of death.
The Democratic senators who are
fighting these wild and un-Americanl
projects tooth and nail deserve and
will receive the heartiest thanks of all
lovers of the republic.
May their wise, patriotic and heroic
efforts once more yitalize the doctrine
of peace, commerce and honest friend
ship with all nations, entangling ALI
ances with none," and substitute it for
the bizarre and dangerous jingoism
now in vogue.