Show American enterprise has absorbed the trade of Tahiti and Americans are buyIng buy-Ing up the land of the island In large tracts France affects to see in this American aggression especially as the natives openly prefer the Americans and u scare is started that the United States is preparing to seize Tahiti in vindication of the Monroe doctrine But it is not so very long ago that France was proving to the satisfaction of Europe that the United States In acquiring Hawaii and the Philippines had abandoned the Monroe doctrine There Isnt much use In trying to getup get-up a scare for fear the United States will seize something by virtue of a doc trino that it has abandoned France must guess again |