The Washington herald., 1922-10-18
By THOMAS STEWART RYAN


MADRID, Oct. ls.-The American
negro Is troubling certain political
thinkers In Spain. They have
raised teh alarm that We are driv-
ing him as a wedge into Liberia. as
part of a Yankee conspiracy to re-
peat our Cuban and Philippine ex-
ploits on the west coast Of Africa
This is but one phase of a senti-
ment among some Spaniards that
with his Monroe doctrine and his
colonial expansion the Anglo-Saxon
is still the enemy OF the Spanish
race, as he was in the days of the
armada
The A. B. c., one OF the leading
papers of Madrid. was against us
during the great war, and even to-
day grasps eagerly at any frag'
ment of news which 1t considers
prejudicial to the United States. 1t
recently treated its readers to de-
tailed review Of the Liberian men,
ace, In which 1t recommended that
Spain combat the Yankee scheme By
importing Spanish" negroes from
Cuba to her African colonies.
Faces Negro slavery.
Slavery, says A. B. C, was once a
necessity for Europe. whose civili'
zation faced ruin after a series OF
wars. Great Britain is described as
favoring slavery until well along in
the nineteenth century, when Brit
ish policy required a change. The
United States and England are now
retracing their steps by sending the
erstwhile slave race back to its an
cient haunts, to work Africa fol
the Saxons. wouldn't. II make the
slave dealers of old turn In their
graves? At least, A. B. c. thinks II
would.
Spanish indifference to ten danger
Is deplored Spain Is accused OF
viewing with mild annoyance T.
few shreds remaining of her once
great colonial empire. Spaniard.
know nothing of these West African
possessions. And now comes tn,
reference to the cloven hoof oi
Washington.
The United States" says A. r. C..
has transformed Liberia into g
colony, which represents the be-
ginning of Intervention in African
affairs. Once that change is COM
pleted. every activity of Spain ir
Fernando Poo and even in CONT.
mental Guinea will be dependent on
the good will of the United States
as in those shameful later days In
Cuba
Resents dberian Loan.
The newspaper warns of small
loan which il says the United States
Is planning to grant Liberia-about
100000, or the cost of four oil
five days Spanish occupation of the
Riff" Spain. says the writer. would
have better right to make this loan
for il seems that the only black
who knows how to work in that re-
gion Is the Americanized negro OF
Liberia and Spain needs him ir
Fernando Zoo and Guinea. She
has failed to repopulate these colo
nies with blacks. as she succeeded
in doing with Cuba. The natives
are called feeble and degenerate
Now. in exchange for a handful
of dollars" we have secured tn,
right, says A. r. c., to veto tn,
choice of the Liberian President
and to determine the disposition OF
the treasury receipts. We can de
eide what public works Liberi;
shall embark upon. More ALARMING
still. the United States is going tC
organize the Liberian army with
| North American officers. The Ii
berian war minister is said to have
visited the United States.
England more quickly than any
| Spaniard-eXcept the editor OF A
/ B. C.-has sensed the menace of oul
desire to make Liberia a promised
land.
Then comes a eulogy of the A mer.
lean negro as a worker. He Is ttht
equal of the white European. say:
A. B. C. His feelings and ideals are
expressed in an English "as pure
as the Monroe doctrine"
Negro Monroe Doctrine.
a negro Monroe doctrine will
develop, with Africa for the Afri
cans as its slogan" resumed tn,
paper with a touch of irony. Per.
haps IN the future IL will once more
cost us blood and money.
England applies the remedy by
attempting a similar negroizatior
OF her African colonies. A Barbado.
negro in New ork, ]. Albert
Thorne by name. says that aeon
pany called the A African Colonia
Enterprise has arranged for an eN'
odus of negroes from the West In
dic@, To begin in the spring. The