Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-21
DOMINICAN TRADE
INCREASE IS TOLD.
Former Collector of Customs
Under U. S. Protectorate Re-
views Island Conditions.

WORCESTER, Mass, Nov. 2l.-A
five-fold increase in the foreign trade
Of San Domingo has been one of the
beneficial results of the six years
operations of the Dominican conven-
ton" under which the United States
superyises the customs collection of
that country. Professor Jacob Hol-
lander, of Johns Hopkins University,
told the Clark University conference
on Latin America today. Professor
Hollander was financial adviser of
the Dominican republic from 1908 to
1910.
THE foreign trade of San Domingo
for BILE the latest fiscal year for
which figures are available he said,
aggregated nearly 10000, 900, as
compared with some s5,000,000 for the
year preceding the convention.
Little short of a revolution. social,
political and economic, has been
wrought in the country. The people
of the island, protected from rapine
and bloodshed, are fairly on the way
to becoming decent peasantry. as
Industrious and stable as sub-tropical
conditions are likely to evolve"
Professor Philip NJ. Brown, of
Princeton, former minister 10 Hon
duras. advocated union OF the Gem
trail American republics and urged
that the United States take the in
itiative in bringing it about.
Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale.
and George Il. Tucker spoke on the
Monroe Doctrine.
:. Charles II. Sheriff.. of New York,
who was American minister to the
Argentine from 1909 to 1911, was
among the speakers at the afternoon
session. He said the twentieth CEN
fury would sooner or later come to
be known as the century of the south
erner.
He said in part:
81 am an enthusiastic Pan-Am-
erican, and an earnest believer in
the high ideals of Pam Americanism,
and one of those ideals Is respect
for the viewpoint of our fellow Am
orleans.
u believe and I affirm that we
have almost always sought to be not
only just in our dealings with those
republics. but also have tried TO do
what we thought was best for them.
But why have we SO persistently. so
ignorantly, so blunderingly disre-
gard their viewpoint, even careless
/ ~ neglected to study it?
Nov, for a suggestion: Suppose
affairs should take so serious a turn
| in Mexico that. either to forestall
an armed intervention there by some
\ European power seeking to defend
it's citizens or else perform like SER
vice for some citizens OF our own
hemisphere. it finally becomes nee
essary under the terms of the Monroe
doctrine that the United States in
| tervene--I would suggest that we in
wife Argentina or Brazil or some
other American country to join with
us.
what would be the result of such
| an invitation? 1t would have two
marked tendencies. both of which
would be highly desirable. First: IT
would entirely = remove any idea
| among our South American neigh
bors that our purpose was land grab
bling because man does not invite
| his neighbors to accompany him on
an errand intended to benefit him
alone. Secondly: 1t would free our
government from the persistent i'm
portunities of individuals and cor
poratlons urging intervention to bene-
fit their own pockets, but who would
not favor a joint intervention by US
along with other powers.
Furthermore it would be the best
and most convincing form of inyi-
tation to Isatin-A1neriea TO particl-
pate equally with us in the respon-
sibilities and development of the
Monroe doctrine. The great doctrine
would at once become continental,
and cease to be unilateral. which is
today its one great defect. It Is not
the duty of the United States to po-
lice Latin America, and the sooner we
get that idea spread broadcast, not
only in South America, but also in
North Ameria, the better will it be
for our International repute.'