The Hawaiian star., 1906-04-26
.Pan=AmeriCan
Conference


greatly developed and the OF the working out OF the oncp
tion greatly advanced since his ume secretary Io bot f * @ f. %
capacity This fact in itself will give this conference an
given times and especially the new
conditions which has been applied have drawn INTO a
closer community OF interest the United States OF America and the
republics they had before The truth s
good many the Latin American republics have not
cherished very kindly feelings toward the United States or the
people There many Tor this and IN some points
view justification the feelings they have entertained Blood
is thicker than water and it IS not unnuai lat the
states should closely their mother coun
tries have been to ours and to those countries wit" WING"
they had closer financial and commercial relations than to u.s.
Their principal sympathy with us is the helpful and kind
ward them and third decades OF the last century when
one after another they were 1oWng Oh r & YOKE @ @ @ %exco
twenty-five later looked by them by many OF our own
people as war OF aggression chilled the ardor OF their
gratitude and has been gradual growing apart
1t this in a measure that ames g. Blaine con
Ceived the ercan conference and established the bureau OF
Republics in the State Department with the object
of cuvatng friendly relations with these states ana better
understanding has resulted and 1t IS to be opea u eter uu
programme OF subjects for
lively agreed and these naturally include some topics w
debated before Among them such matters as require
and quarantine regulations recognition diplomas uniformity OF
patent legislation and OF and customs administration ~
There background however larger topic which
will in all probability be discussed not OF such nature
make any attempt settlement wise or udcouS Inns IS
what Drago Doctrine sometimes the Cavo Doc
trne the OF its conspicuous advocate 1t IS AIMED
against the collection by government debts owed of its
citizens by another government and OF peculiar interest to the
republics from the fact that most OF them are debtor
ratons most OF them have unpaid debts and more a one mas a
experience of compulsory debtcoectmg operations at the hands
creditor nations 1t obvious however that before such doctrine
could incorporated the body of international law would
need have the adhesion of more than the nations OF the western
Hemisphere 1t appropriately suggested that the
go further than to refer the question by
the at The Hague by which tribunal
might great propriety be considered
this question the position of the Washington Government has
made perfectly clear Ut would appear that the ago Doc
tne with President Rooseve declaration that the
Doctrine could not be made the shield for bankrupt policies
and International pracies hand the wholesale
impoundng Of national would seem to come
dangerously the exercise of undue influence the dens
the countries against which the famous American
Doctrine is aimed The subject is fraught with extreme difficulty
but if bv the of the nations creditor well as
debtor policy adopted which places domestic and foreign
creditors exactly the basis fruitful source OF trouble would
be removed lenders would be careful and borrowers
gh be spared eacon of exorbtan interest and commission
charges such figured in of the foreign claims against
South American States in the past