Enclosure Despatch No.
3111 TRANSLATION (EL UNIVERSAL Nov. 26) MISTAKE OF IMPERIALISM.
HASHIVER By Lic. Esteban laqueo Castellanos.
With the acquisition by certain Nations during the last third of the nineteenth Century of an advantageous position in the world, which, increasing during the first decade of the present one, was scarsely modified by the downfall of the German Empire and the breaking up of the Russian Empire into Republics of tigers and besgars, Diplomacy, the mother of deceit, has invented phrases of conventional value and bitter sweet savor to disguise the covetousness of strong nations of the weaker ones; and thus there have become stereotyped in the lexicon of the former those such as sphere of action. of influence and of interests, which are no more than hands gloved in silk, cotton, or ungloved, thrust into the pockets of a neighbor, since Imperialism is nothing more than the brutally egoistic necessity which nations abounding in money and exportable products are confronted with to open foreign doors for themselves, with smiles, courtesies, or cannon.
In America, the country which is today the monopolizer of ühe moneys of the world, there have been two representative examples of that ideology: Roosevelt, who wasted no time in hypocrasy and for that reason was likable even by those trodden upon, because of his fearlessness and free speech in calling things by their name, and the machiavelian Mr. Wilson. The former, waving his big stick heavy club. stated in his astounding speech in Berkeley, California, referring to the occupation of Fanama; took the Isthmus. as though he were referring