Evening star., 1923-11-03
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

! terventions. 1t appeared to be a key
OF past interventions, and has turned
out to be the skeleton key of our
future conquest. For 100 years the
Of US; he did the best he could--not for
ourselves, but for himself.
After the war with Spain, the United
States took posseTsion OF Porto Rico
and imposed on the independence OF
Cuba the annoying conditions OF the
to atnputate from Colombia the 18TH
mus OF Panama, which permitted II
to unite, through Panama, It's Pacific
and Atlantic coasts. II made an at
leo. through the unfortunate adventure
against Vera Cruz. 1t took military
possession OF Haiti, under a puerile pre-
text. Later. 1t made shameful occu-
patton Of Santo Domingo, under the
habitual pretext Of pacifytng the coun-
day-no. today II is throwing obstacles
IN the hope of dissoiving the Central
American Fedora tion. They deny the
recognition Of Mexico. unless Mexico
will first sign treaties which will give
foreign investors rights against the in
terests of the nation.
Senior Ingenteros said that danger
does not always begin with annexation,
as with Porto Rico: nor with interven-
ton. as with Cuba: nor with military
tutelage. az with Nicaragua; nor with
territorial secession. as with Colombia:
nor with armed occupation, as with
Haiti: nor with purchase. as with
Guayanas. The danger begins in pro-
gressive mortsaging OF national inde-
pendence, through loans to be renewed
and Increased without limit: each time
with Increasing mortgage on national
independence.
Did not President Wilson say during
the world war that he would respect the
rights OF small nations and that all
would be free to govern themselves as
they saw At? asked the senior. Where
are those principles? he queried. How
has his country applied them? In Cuba,
with Intervention IN It's politics. In
ernment It's people believed the best.
In Santo Domingo. by substituting It's
own government by military occupa-
ton. with an offer to retire only on
conditions most indecorous.
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In summing up the Latin situation as
the speaker saw it, he advocated that
which has been urged by certain parties
in every South and Central American
country for twenty years-an organiza-
. ton OF a Latin American Union. as
opposed 20 the Pan-American Union.
The Pan-Amerfcan Union is denounced
by these leaders as being dominated by
the United States. since il IS presided
over by the Secretary OF State OF the
United States, and il always sits in
Washington.
The Latin American Union would
have for its slogan: Latin America for
; Latin Americans" It is proposed 70
establish a high tribunal to resolve po-
litical troubles between the countries:
also a supreme economic council to
regulate cooperation. production and
exchange: to establish collective re-
sistance to all powers which imply the
right of Intervention by foreign coun-
tries; and to gradually extinguish ma
tional loans from foreign powers. II
proposes to form local organizations In
all cities Of all nations, which would
spread propaganda and work with the
international Latin American Union.
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Surely Representative gritten's plan
OF educational reciprocity has an ample
field.
tCopyriaht, 1923, by Paul v Collins,