The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-19

| by Henry Wood, Rome correspond.
ent Of the United Press.l
ROME, April 1S.-Colonel Roose-
welt, who, on his way home from
Africa five years ago, succeeded in
lupsetting the tranquility Of the vati-
can and four or five of the leading
European governments, has just re-
peated the stunt with his South Amer
: lean trip. All explanations to the
contrary, a goodly portion Of the
European press insists that the ex-
presidents latest plunge back to ma
ture merely constitutes a continual
ton of the United States to attempt
commercial monopoly on the South
American republics to the exclusion
Of all European powers. Some Of
them even see President Wilson work
ing hand in hand with Roosevelt in
the matter.
II POpolo Romano, the official org
an Of the Italian government, which
has repeatedly declared in the past
that the United States policy of
building up commercial imperialism
in South America will one day be a
greater menace to the worlds peace
than the yellow peril or the breaking
out of an European war, comments as
follows:
However much Mr.. Roosevelt, in
his addresses delivered in the more
important cities of South America,
may have studied to conceal the prin-
cipal, if not the sole object of his trip
across Brazil, Uruguay, Argentine,
Paraguay and Chilli, he has not sue
ceeded in the preventing of the en-
rendering of many doubts and sus-
Picions as to the real object of the
propaganda unfolded with admirable
activity by the ex-president of the
United States. The United States
intends evidently to exercise in all
of the new world a Pan-American
policy, with the exclusion of every
European influence, and it is not
much, that in one of his discourses,
which had repercussions in every
chancellory and the press of Europe
that President Wilson affirmed that
foreign capital and interests pervert
the Latin-American republics, insinu-
ating in them pernicious and depres-
not only cannot permit but is dispos-
ed to alternate and to exclude.
The United States, in other words,
wishes if not politically. at least
economically, to exercise an absolute
dominion over the South American
republics and to free them from their
dependence on European capital
President Wilson has declared this
without reticence, and Colonel Roose-
vent, in his journey, has given to this
policy Of assimilation and Of exclusion
all OF the authority of his word.
! The interests which Europe has in
Latin-America are imponderable. Up
to the present time the republics have
lived there only as a result of the
capital, the arms. the intelligence,
the products. and the initiative of
Europe. and all of their progress,
political, economical and intellectual
both socially and ethnografcally, re.
fleets solely the provident action OF
European elements. And yet in the
constant development of those coun-
tries there has never been discovered
the least attempt at pressure or of a
protectorate on the part of the var
ious nations of the old world.
ut is estimated that England alone
has invested a capital of over $1,000
| 600. 900 in Argentine, and immense
sums in Brazil, Uruguay and Chilli.
Germany and France also have pledg-
! ed immense sums of capital in those
countries while Belgium, Italy, and
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who work there for the grandness
| and prosperity of the different repub-
lies. .....
'In 1918 Argentine imported mer-
chandise to the amount of S42t,352,-
! $50. Of which nearly S400,00O,G00 came
from Europe. And it is certain that
in the presence of this figure the
United States will intensity its in
vading action, broadening to its own
advantage the application Of the Mon
roe doctrine.
"The European nations cannot and
must not neglect this aggressive policy
of the United States which it follows
in its relations with South America.
It IMPOSES on all Of the European
nations a vigorous defensive action.
England has provided for the pro-
lection of its interests there with ad-
mirable Industrial and capitalistic or
carnations which characterize its
work throughout the entire world.
France has sent to Brazil and Argen-
time, practical and active agents for
spreading there the influence OF
French capital.