13and we will have until the war is over a reasonable unencumbered opportunity to try to effect the reforms calculated to improve the prestige of the United States and result OF beneficially for the countries interested.
THE UN We might as well recognize the fact that we have them SUM to do eventually if we would command permanently a leading position, so why defor until we are forced by a combination of world circumstances to do, for our own protection, or that of our neighbors, what we might do now with a cortain measure of calm?
For years the Department of State has been desirous to have American capital rehabilitate the finances of some of the Central American countries.
When it was awakened to the fact that this had all but been accomplished under our very eyes about 1909, but not until then we stepped in and endeavored to take the position we should have held from the first.
As a natural sequence it tell to us to undertake what we had prevented a commercial rival from doing.
This very rival in turn checkmated our efforts and thus our dilatoriness affected our accomplishing the and desired.
If we blindly take it as an accepted fact that Latin America, or even that portion between our country and the canal is really soon to be prompted by an enlightened