The sun., 1910-06-19
Colonel ROOseveIt's Account % the
santO Domingo Intervention.

Colonel ROOseVeIt's Account Of the
santO Domingo Intervention.
Considerably with Colonel ROOsE-
vELI's return there is published for the
first time, in the weekly magazine Of
which he Is the Contributing Editor,
the text o! a speech delivered by him at
a dinner in Christiania on the evening Of
May S. Unlike the Sorbonne lecture,
the Berlin address. the Oxford disq,i-
sition and the Nobel prize acknowledge
ment. all Of which were prepared and
were in type long in advance Of the sew
eral occasions, this after dinner speech
a. ChrisIiania was extempOraneous.
The Outlook testfes that its repre-
sentative arranged to have the Con-
tributing Editors remarks reported
stsnographically, and that he himself
has since revised the report for the pres
ent publication. 1T is the first public
utteranoe, adds the Outlook, -On any
question Of American politics which
Mr.. RoOsEyELT has made since he left
America year ago
Colonel ROOSEVELT told the Norwe-
gians on May that he would say a word
or two about his own actions when
q President, explaining that the sole pur-
pose in referring to has Executive career
was to illustrate the thesis that espe-
oially uphold, that the man who has the
power Ia act is To be judged not by his
words but by his acts by his words in
30 far as they agree WITH his acts This
Is a little cloudy, perhaps, but we need
concern ourselves only with his account
Of the Intervention in the case of Santo
Domingo. early in 1905.
We iaisrvened only 10 far 40 70 prevent ne
need Of taking possession Of me lsand None Of
you win knoW Of this 10 Will jos, ten sou BREEZY
What it was mat We I'D. The republic Of saato 10
mngo IN The West indies, had suffered from good
many rsvo.uuOas lRonc particular period vhea
had 10 deal with ne lslaad Nhne VS. Prsslds1L
nvas q nttls aiflcult 70 know shat 10 10 because
there were two separate governments In ihs
Island. and revolution going on again, zach
After reci,:pg 20 the NorwegianS the
history II the foreign claims against
the Government of Santo Domingo for
money loaned at eXorbitant interest.
Colonel ROOSEVELT continued.
Things got 10 such pass that t became
sy1dsnt nat certain European Power would
land and tals possession Of parts o. thc i,Isnd
We hen began negotatious With me G1vern
neni o. The isiaLd We selt down ships o. keep
within limits various prspostsruus f'us mani
iettauons Of TIE rcyoluuonary habit a1i alter
some negotiations We concluded On agrcemrnt
u uss agreed nat we should plt a man IA a.
head Of me custom house that the collection
o. customs should he entirely under the nan
agemeni Of that man. and That no one should
b. allowed TO Interfere with ne custom house,
Revolutions could go on outside these without
Interference from u.s. blt me custom housrs
we're not n be- touched We agreed 70 turn over
70 the Sanio Dou'aEo Coz eminent Is per cent Of
ths revenue. keeping IS per cent as find 10 b,
applisi 70 settlement With the creditors The
creditors ais, acuuiesccd In what We had done
ana We started the new arrangement
We now come 20 the important contri-
button 70 history. After starting the
new arrangement, Mr. ROOSEVELT tells
Of his troubles with the other branch Of
the treaty iaking power:
found considerable dinculty In getting the
Untsi o'ates senate 10 raufy the treaty bsf
u'T o1sld lHyfor. aHg sr,cusa uuaa "a,
Saf-'f Finally ituas rauasd. OF rhe oppo,ito,
va5 purely iartous opposition. representing m. |
Smallest LInd Of poliucs with a haven Of even
basef motive
Again. speaking n the same incident
Of Executive intervention in foreign AZ. /
fsirs without the formality Of a lawfully .
ratified treaty:
"ss actually ssssIlsi right and Isft by the /
m1-r sHtfsns memhcrs 0f the pcare PROPAGANDA
n tss Jniisd states for what did IN San,o m
ninro most Of the other professional peace Al.
yorsi-1 Jook no interest IN he matter or were
tsptT hostile h7ressr. ssw ur7'sa' gAsad ana
- 'as o5 The ultra r~scs people suarksd me
or ne ground that had 'd~rlarcd var srslr.,
Esuto nominso. NE Ws5 taking the shane Of the
ons man putiH charge Of The custom ho1se,' TrI.
NiE rem 10 ou inrred,bis ~ an gir.sg yo,, s,
chs1'u'rg 1rrurrfs assourf or rFs' osourr-s .
dlslc.aricd those ioolsh people a. . shall alusv,
cisrsrard -enunsntaEsts OF that ty9s when they
az gully OF folly
We confess that this narrative certi-
fed by Colonel ROOSEVELT a. abso-
hl's!y accurate, occasions sone sur
prise. Colonel ROOSEVELT seems to be
boastIng to the Nobel prize diners of a
violation ~ law which he undertook
when ,hIef Executive to accomplish
what he regarded as a desirable result.
He pictures himself a. a man Of action.
"a '..-'ed b. technicalities of proceed /.
NE I'D undisturbed by the obisctions
Of -Cnators and the whim 1erincs Of fool
ish ssntimentalists tie went ahead
and executed the treaty before il was
ratified h. went straight ahead and did
The iob
Our recollection was that the opposi-