Wilson Doctrine PDF Download

Author: Policarpo Bonilla
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ISBN: 9781331304517
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Excerpt from Wilson Doctrine: How the Speech of President Wilson at Mobile, Ala;, Has Been Interpreted by the Latin-American Countries They have had harder bargains driven with then in the matter of loans than any other peoples in the world. Interest has been exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody else, because the risk was said to be greater; and then securities were taken that destroyed the risk, an admirable arrangement for those who were forcing the terms. I rejoice in nothing so much as in the prospect that they will now be emancipated from these conditions, and we ought to be the first to take part in assisting in that emancipation. "We have seen material interests threaten constitutional freedom in the United States. Therefore, we will now know how to sympathize with those in the rest of America who have to contend with such powers not only within their borders but from outside their borders also. I know what the response of the thought and heart of America will be to the programme I have outlined, because America was created to realize a programme like that. "In emphasizing the points which must unite us in sympathy and in spiritual interest with the Latin American peoples, we are only emphasizing the points of our own life, and we should prove ourselves untrue to our own traditions if we proved ourselves untrue friends to them. Do not think, therefore, gentlemen, that the questions of the day are mere questions of policy and diplomacy. They are shot through with the principles of life. We dare not turn from the principles that morality, and not expediency, is the thing that must guide us, and that we will never condone iniquity because it is most convenient to do so. "It seems to me that this is a day of infinite hope, of confidence in a future greater than the past has been." General Considerations. The thought and the heart of America have answered President Wilson. With unanimous and enthusiastic voice, it has applauded the programme made public by President Wilson in the speech delivered on October 26th, 1913, at Mobile, Alabama, of which we have copied above, the extracts that seemed to us of greater interest for the object we have in view. Mr. Wilson addresses the people of America in his own name and that of the United States Government invoking the friendship, and fraternity of this hemisphere and treating the other countries as equals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.