Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — South American Trade. [ARTICLE]

South American Trade.

The Intimation from Washington that the administration intends shortly to take vigorous measures “to Insure respect for American Interests not only in Venezuela, but In other South American republics,” leads the Dallas News (Dem.) to say pertinently: "The policy of the present administration, with its ministers ‘treading on dangerous ground’ and its steamy warriors at the top, has led almost every one of the Spanish republics to boycott our trade and to regard us as unscrupulous enemies. The preposterous interpretation of the Monroe doctrine and the mistreatment of Colombia have cost us in possible and prospective profits probably ten times as much as we would have had to pay for a lawful deed to the right of way."