14enlightened self interest to cement with us the closest of relations, we may be let in for a rude awakening when this war is over, and find our prestige no more powerful than it is today in a rogion we are pleased to regard as under the peculiar sphere of our influonco.
We have but recently, and for the first time, mixed deeply into world politics, and this act may be taken as a reason for some Europeans to exercise 1888 restraint in the future in respect to the Monroe Doctrine than has been evidenced in the past.
ARCHIVES recommend the carrying out of such steps as will THE remove between the Rio Grande and Panama, insofar as THE possible, all causes for friction with other great world powers at the conclusion of the present war, and will, at the same time, improve our position in Central America and the world. Among other things which might be done, the following are important. 1)
Provide the ways and means for the development of the natural resources of Central America; 68pecially of the products we need or can handle profitably. If we can see these people put to work trying to do something usful and their attention turned from the fascinating game of politics we will have set 1008 the the vehicle which one day will help to bring them abreast of the progre88 of modern Republics. a) To do this we must improve their national credit standing before the world. Refinance Contral