The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-08-14
FRANCE IS JEALOUS
OF ROOTS SUCCESS
Newspapers Taunt Latin-Amer-
ica's SubmissivenesS
WILL SEE THE ERROR LATER
To the Yankee Invader Goes Benefits
and FaVors Because He Alone
Spoke, Flattered and
Menaced.

Paris, August 1S.-The Temps today de-
votes a leading article to Secretary Roots
speech in South America and the Monroe
doctrine 1t says:
'Latin-Ameriea feels the need of guards
against the United States as we'll as
against Europe. The Monroe doctrine
protects the republics against Europe,
but it leaves them defenseless against the
United States
The Temps says that Brazil favors the
United States, owing to its coffee and
rubber exports. and added but it is to be
hoped that the Brazilian statesmen will
not sacrifice Amerieanism to Monroeism
except eompatibly with what the Latin
republics owe To Europe and owe To their
own destnies.
Another journal on Victims.
La Liberte early this month, under the
caption Victims of the Monroe Doctrine"
prints long, vigorous article on seere-
tary of State Root and the Pan-Ameriean
congress. 1t taunts the French press for
grudgingly printing a paragraph about
Root toasting all South America between
the lists of contestants in recent swim
ming match and the names of meritorious
agreulturlsts 1t ironically quotes an edl-
tor who said foreign politics is not sur
ficently Partisan to interest a polite pub
lie and then twist leaders of the re-
public on making the question of confer
ring n decoration of the Legion of Honor
on Sarah Bernhardt the principal a1alf
OF state. tactitly asking why they should
worry over South Americans, who inter-
est Parisians only In vaudeville
All this time, says La Lberte, Root Is
preparing If he has not already made Il
effective a most redoubtable operation 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 Parisians.
Soon to Expel Europe.
The results of fifteen years intrigue in
Panama is likely TO be effective soon Eu-
rope already has been expelled from
North America. II will be expelled from
South America in less than six years nnr
less there be energetic resistance I'M
mediately.
Referring to the recent Intervention of
the United States in Central America, La
Liberte says it is understood that Presl-
dent Roosevelt himself devised the coup
de nal de mer," which consisted in de-
tanning representatives of Salvador, Guat-
emala and Honduras at sea on board
rolling vessel until their signatures TO
satisfactory agreement were obtained.
This method, the paper adds, Is too new
to be suggested to the Pan American
congress- which Roosevelt doubtless de-
plores, as even Roots eloquence Is less
effective than this imperlalistic pitching,
though by a gentler method Roots aim
Is the same--to detach South as well as
Central America from Europe.
For six weeks this envoy has been
working with the foreseen result, which
enabled the diplomatic hnmorist to de-
clare himself at Rio de Janeiro as mere
w an amateur disinterested tourist under
disguise Of diplomatic formula.
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 United States In eff
feet says each nation is master of its
own home with the United States at
home everywhere.
Against "a, 900 600 Latin people stood Sec
rotary Root, and to that Yankee intruder
went favors and benefits because he alone
spoke, fattered menaced. He alone acted
while Latin Europe abstained.
Already distant lands have slipped into
Yankees hands. At Constantnople, st.
Petersburg, Toxic, Algeciras, the same
Root interviewed at his convenience, and
Europe stupidity respected the Monroe doc
trine Before the conclusion of the third
American congress 1t will have cost
the Latin peoples the continent they peo-
pied and financed.