The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-08-04
PLAN TO GEORGE REPUBLICS
Infamous Doings in Santo Domingo
to Be Repeated in Defiance
of the Senate.

IuinSo treaty contains some very sig
nificant words tending to show that
the policy of the present administra.
tion is to s%ubjugate the Latin-American
nations south Of us by the process of
making compacts with certain factions
In those countries under which the al
lies or the president are to rule by
The aid OF American troops and war
ships. How can we logically or con-
slstently refuse to aid these weak gov
ernments when properly called upon
by them?" said the secretary. These
weak governments comprise all the
South American governments, as well
as that of Santo Domingo; and it is
Just to infer that the secretary Of wal
referred to all Of them, and intended
to convey the idea that all should be
treated as Santo Domingo has been.
Let us see what has been done in
Santo Domingo. In February, 1905,
a compact, known as the Sanchez
Dillingham; convention, was made by
the president with one Carlos F.
Morales, a renegade priest who had
left the priesthood because he found
celibacy irksome. Under this COM
pact the president was authorized to
collect the of the island and
deposit the money in a New York
bank. Without waiting for the sen.
ate to ratify this agreement, or treaty,
he at once sent Col. Colson and a
number Of other persons to act as
collectors Of revenue in a foreign
country without authority of law, and
began to deposit the money in the
National City bank, Of New York,
owned by the Standard Oil company
the very same bank in which mil
of dollars had been deposited
without interest by the secretary Of
the treasury, and to which the old
customhouse in New York, worth S10,-
600, 900, had virtually been given for
nothing except. perhaps, a campaign
contribution. The senate rejected this
but on March 81, 1905, the
president made what he called "a tenn
porary arrangement with Morales,
covering the same points, and has
continued to collect the Dominican
up to the present time, al
the senate at its last session
again refused to ratify the wicked
and unconstitutional compact with
Morales, who had been driven out of
he country last December, and had
aiken refuge in Porto Rico.
But notwithstanding this second re-
ection of the Morales compacts by the
senate, the administration announced
the 4th of July that it would con-
inue to collect the of
he island, and ordered several Ameri-
an warships and 400 marines to
'anto Domingo in order to maintain
military and naval occupation of the
sland. This was done in defiance Of :
ng power, had twice repudiated the
ompact, and also in defiance of con-
ress, which is the sole war-making
over.
1t was, in effect, an act Of war,
hitch had been forbidden by the prop
r authorities of the United States. 1t {
as a revolutionary act performed in
interest of the Rothschilds and t
.ockefellers. 1t amounts to a conquest b
{ Santo Domingo at the expense of P
lie United States for the benefit of t.
lie money powers of New York, Lon g
On, Paris and Berlin. There is 40
for it, but the word of a
'negade priest and dethroned tyrant.
now we are told by MI. Taft that 81
lie same policy is to be extended to cl
/ the weak governments" to the b:
nth of us. This indicates that there az
a conspiracy between the admins N
alton and the European money pow n;
s to exploit South America under r.
e pretext of agreements between the -
esident and any and every rene ~
de banished from these countries .
will falsely style himself "the con-
ltutional president" of any of those
untries. Our army and navy are to no
used in this revolutionary move =;
mt. South America, as we'll as Sam =.
Domingo, is to be conquered with ~
t the consent of congress-. nc
What is this but the overthrow of
ngress and the establishment of a ~
,tatorship in this country? The die
is already here.
The announcement made on the r.,
of July that the govern. ~,
mt of the United States would use w
ce in Santo Domingo in spite of the
i of congress twice expressed by the
ection of the treaty, was nothing We "
than a declaration that a dicta- M,
ship had been established at Wash
ton.