Show T WE BUSY BODIES OF OP EUROPE The Danish West Test Indies are not yet through Germanys Germany's influence exercised in the councils of its s smaller neighbor to be part of the time United States Cuba is likewise through European intermeddling becoming more and more antagonistic to this Republic Republic Re Re- public to which it owes deliverance from and ands s savagery 1 There is if besides a recrudescence ence of ill ill- will on the part of South American republics toward to to toward ward the United States Chile and Brazil off in th ion of QC hostility b toward o a country a actuated ed b by none but good feeling t ward toward e cr every republic re public public- in the hemisphere and for fOl that mutter matter to all aB peoples on earth lIl There re is iH is it is well weB for fbi Americans to note and remember a strong shong dislike deep down dawn in inthe inthe the time Latin races for fOl the time Anglo Anlo Our Om people have bave d an atmosphere of freedom Freedom Freedom Free Free- dom begets strength and generosity g and there are distinctive e American characteristics Repression sion which has bas for fOl ages in one form forn or 01 another held the down-the Latin races is th the parent of narrowness s suspiciousness and amid jealousy The Thc Latin races suffer from these defects European state statesmanship hip avails itself of this feeling in fl the hope of some sonic lJ day t using it against our oui Monroe doctrine Could Latin America Amer 1111 i ica u be united against the United States it would be uc unpleasant for us and und unprofitable for fOl our sister re ye- publics They are however er d divided ded from flom each cach other oth er by bj profound distrusts and jealousies which ages may not miot remove Their statesmen know besides that Europe has no iio other ulterior aim in O occult Cl lt or 01 open intervention in American ran affairs than to acqUire ac ac- qUire new dominions in this hemisphere Out Our duty to republican institutions and lo 10 American Amelica para pal is plain We Ve cannot suffer Cuba or 01 an any other portion of Latin America t to he be us used d as a n foothold foothold foot foot- hold hold for European aggression commercially or po po- liti True American statesmanship demands in fact the time a absorption of Cuba that the time ln United t d States of America Ameli n may be supreme in deed Iced as well wella a as as in name in the time Caribbean sea Hea Cuba Cuha must be ours OUIS It Jt i is written ritten on the Rk sky which overhangs O the time l Antilles it Js is sung by the stars stare in those azure heavens hear heu c ens eis s that enwrap the Spanish main it i ia is chorused ed h bv by every y wave C whose cadences a wake awake the historic shor shores S of Florida That song is Americas America's s battle hattle song song of of toda today Cuba mu must t be ours Our Om first dutto dut dut- to humanity is to the American Republic lic and und Gel Ger many as s well iveli ni as the other othel powers power of of- Europe Europe- f J must be to understand that while patient and p peace ace l loving we Wc are ever el ready read to resist n aggression h. h by ly force Them are arc no H tears s 's in order order- 1 over time tIll i ejection tion of the Danish da of the time treat treaty giving us the tiny West Vest est Indian posse possessions of King Chr Christian but we cannot close lose our eyes eR to the time fad fact that this 1 rejection j tion is due to German unfriendliness for foe Amer Amer- ica hen I It t will hm hasten ten the tIle day of Cuban annexation iOu and mind the establishment nt by hy strenuous he American statesmanship statesman statesman- ship hip of Americas America's commercial and mind political it ical supremacy ar acy throughout th the West Vest cst Indies |