...declaration of. Mr. Olney, Secretary of State during President Cleveland's Administration in 1895, that: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." "Those Americans who understand their southern neighbors best," says Mr. Sweet, "feel strongly that...

...politically, of the United States." l Nor was the strain of the situation relieved by his further statement that "To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." In 1898 the United States went .flf to war with Spain over conditions with * Spain in *-uba for reasons...

...British Guiana. And speaking in behalf of Cleveland in 1895, Richard Olney, Secretary of State, said: The United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Extensions of the original Doctrine have confused the popular idea as to its purpose.1 It has been...

..." political control to be lost by one party and gained by the other." "To-day," declared Mr. Olney, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." All the advantages of this superiority were, he affirmed, at once imperilled if the principle should...

...political union between an European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient* ; he asserted that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Pres_ident Cleveland restated the same principle in the words "The Monroe Doctrine finds its recognition...

...union between a European and an American state" is unnatural and inexpedient, and further on announced that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." These declarations were astonishing both to Great Britain and the South American states, and were at...

...retorts. The American Secretary, not clouding his assertions by clever circumlocution, openly proclaimed that "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason...

...manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.' It was Secretary Olney who said, ' Today the United States is practically sovereign on...subjects to which it confines its interposition.' " To say that the elaborate plan now before us which contemplates and provides for the mastery of the...

...Entirely ignoring the sensitive pride of the Spanish Americans and thinking only of Europe, he continued: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. " The President himself did not run into any such uncalled-for extravagance of expression, but his...

...manifestation of an unfriendly disposi tion toward the United States." It was Secretary Olney who said, " To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." To say that the elaborate plan now before us which contemplates and provides for the mastery of the...