Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-04
VICTIMS OF THE
MONROE DOCTRINE"
PARIS PAPER SAYS ROOT OUT
WITS WORLDS DIPLOMATS
AT CONFERENCE
French Press Reproved For Not Giving
More Attention to Pan-Amerlcan
Congress and las Objects-Lose
South America.

Paris, Aug. LA I.iberte last night
under the caption Victims of the Mon
roe Doctrine" prints long, vigorous
article on Secretary Of State Root and
the Pan American congress. 1t taunts
the French press for grudgingly print
ing paragraph about Root toasting all
South America between the lists of
contestants in recent swimming
match and the names of meritorious
agriculturists. 1t ironically quotes an
editor who said foreign politics Is not
sufficiently Partisan to interest polite
public, and then twits leaders of the
republic on making the question of
comforting decoration of the Legion
OF Honor on Sarah Bernhardt the prin-
cipal affair of state, tacitly asking why
they should worry over South Ameri
cans, who interest Parisians only in
vaudeville.
All this time, says La Liberte, Root
Is preparing, II he has not already made
1T effective, a most redoubtable opera
ton of political economics. of which
the French will be dupes and with
them all other Latin people who are
initiating them and trying to be PART
slams.
Soon to Expel Europe.
The results Of fifteen years intrigue
in Panama is likely to be effective
soon. Europe already has been ex-
PEELED from North America. 1t will be
expelled from South America in less
than six years unless there be energet-
ic resistance Immediately.
Referring to the recent Intervention
IOcf 1,1 TI,Hst 1xl t.
lea, La Liberte says it is understood
that President Roosevelt himself de-
vised the coup de NAL demer which
consisted in OBTAINING representatives
of Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras
at sea on board a rolling vessel until
their signatures to satisfactory agree
ment were obtained. This method, the
paper adds, is too new to be suggested
to the Pan-American congress, which
Roosevelt doubtless deplores, as even
Roots eloquence is less effective than
this imperialistic pitching, though by
a gentler method Roots aim is the
same-to detach South as we'll as Cen
trail America from Europe.
For six weeks this envoy has been
working with the foreseen result
which enabled the diplomatic humorist
to declare himself at Rio de Janeiro as
merely an amateur, disinterested tour
list under disguise of diplomatic for
mula.
No Right to Defend interests.
Continuing, the paper says a few
facts today are startlingly clear
among them that Europe has no right
to defend its financial and commercial
interests in South America. The Uni
ted States in effect says each nation
is master Of it's own home, with the
United States at home everywhere.
Against 100000 Latin people
stood Secretary Root, and to that Yam
kee intruder went favors and benefits
because he alone spoke, flattered, men
aced. He alone acted while Latin Eu
rope abstained.
Already distant lands have slipped
into Yankees hands. At Constantine
pie, st. Petersburg, Toxic, Algeciras
the same Root interviewed at his con
venience, and Europe stupidity respect
ed the Monroe doctrine. Before the
conclusion of the third Pan-Americar
congress it will have cost the Latir
people the continent they peopled ant
financed.