i There is no charge ereept J cents
in stamps for return postage. Ad
dress The Washington star Informa
linn Bureau, Frederic J. Ilaskin. Di
j rector, Washington, J). C.
Canning thereupon wrote; “It is not
eas\ £0 say how much the previous
British proposition influenced the
I’resident, *>ut the doctrine, if such it
may b ■ailed, prohibiting all future
colonization on the American conti
nents is absolutely unacceptable to my
government and to France. This ex
' traordinnry principle will be com
bat* I by my government with all its
] force.”
*y y y
The announcement of the doctrine,
in JS23. m* t with enthusiastic approval
by all Latin American republics, newly
struggling for their independence, but
they have often vacillated since then
from exaggerating the guardianship
which they infer in it, or, in reverse,
to resenting that alleged protection.
If we defy Europe and forbid it to
collect its just debts here by seizing
a port or a bit of territory, as is their
wont in Asia and Africa, how far will
we g<> toward compelling the Amer
ican debtor to pay its just obligations?
Repeatedly the American Government
has told Kurojsan creditor nations
that we did not intend to interfere in
their collecting their just debts.
When the Maximilian intervention
in Mexico was begun by England,
France and Spain, they invited the
United States to join them, for we,
too, had claims there. Secretary
Seward replied that we had no objec
tion to their collecting their debts. We
were then engaged in our Civil War.
