Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-01-16

year for fifteen years. which equals
| the amount of the cotton tax levied
upon the cotton-growing states after
the Civil war. The lr--ey would bt
used to pension aged and infirm Con
federate soldiers and the widows OF
Confederate soldiers.
For Monument to Maury.
1t is interesting to note in this con
| nection that bill which has good
deal of northern support has just been
introduced TO erect Il monument in the
city of Washington to Matthew Foun-
tain Maury, one time commodore in
the United States navy, and later a
ranking officer in the Confederate
navy Commodore Maury was stu
dent of ocean currents. He charted
the Gulf stream and contributed an
immense amount of Oceanographfc
knowledge to the world.
Our Santo. Domingo Fuss.
Santo Domingo, small country.
is looming large just now in the
field of Washington interests and
anxieties. Virtually the United States
is at war with !Santo Domingo. There
are several hundred United States ma
rines in the little republic which has
been put under martial law by Uncle
Sam.
Word which has come from the state
department recently makes it appear
that the United States hereafter may
consider the necessity of taking hand
in affairs in Europe, especially in re-
gard to the safeguarding of the rights
of small nations. Some students of
international relations hold that if the
United States does this it means that
the countries of Europe may one day
feel they have a perfect right to take
hand in affairs on this side Of the wa
ter and that therefore the Monroe
Doctrine must go by the board
This is matter admittedly only
for speculation, and for future devel-
opments to prove one way or the
other but there is intense interest and
some apprehension among the law
makers today because the Dominican
government has protested to the pow
ers of Europe against Uncle Sans &C
ton in placing that country under mar
tial law
May Cause Complications.
1t is not to be supposed for an in
slant, of course, as the officials here
view it, that the big European govern
ments which have been appealed to by
Santo Domingo will do anything in
the matter, or certainly not at present
because their hands are exceedingly
full with deadly troubles of their own.
The protest, however, has gone on rec
ord, and as some of the lockers into
the future here see the thing, it pos
sibly. eventually may develop compli-.
cations for this government
Haiti and Santo Domingo have been
prickly-pear points to Uncle Sam for
long time. The government has a
treaty with Haiti which allows Uncle
Sam to collect not only the customs OF
that country, but its internal taxes as
well. and to look after their disburse-
ment. 1t seems. likely that in order
to bring about complete order in San
to Domingo some like arrangement
must be made with that country. AL
ready the United States is collecting
customs of the Dominican Republic,
but it is not collecting its internal
taxes.
The most recent trouble with Santo
Domingo came because the various ele-
ments down there led by different
men, attempted each in its Ownsbehalf
to take the internal revenues and to
spend them for personal selfish DUR
poses. The result was such an inter-
nal row that the United States had to
step in, and as a matter of fact>we are
in a mild way at war with Santo Do
mingo today, although it is not called
war;
Promised Their Debts Should. Be Paid.
During the Roosevelt administration
England, France and Germany, to all
of whom Santo Domingo owed money
which it would not pay, asked the
United States to assume with them
joint control over the revenues of the
little republic. President Roosevelt
could not entertain such a proposition
the Monroe Doctrine, although not lit
orally so. The American administra-
ton made an arrangement by witch
the United States government was
pledged to maintain the payments on
the Dominican debt
So it is that we have been collect
ing revenue down there and paying off
the republics debt as well as we
could. The internal revenues were left
to the Dominican government itself.
As soon as it was found out that there
was money for the Dominican govern
ment in the internal taxes of the coun-
try, four or five governments sprang
up, each one willing TO fight the other
for the spoils. This led TO virtual
Intervention on the part of the pres
ent administration. OF course, the
United States viii maintain control in
Santo Domingo and bring about order,
but the fact that this little bit of a
republic, that really is not a republic
at all, has protested to the powers of
Europe against the action of the
United States, may bring trouble to us
in the future.
No Approximations.
$50 Crimson Gulch has gone for pro-