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Show the collection of bad debts. Perhaps the experiment experi-ment will "prove successful and perhaps it will not, but no great harm will be done. The ' original doctrine doc-trine of "America for Americans" will still remain ready for use whenever needed. San Domingo will be all the better.for a little scare. But there is no reason to fear that it is to become be-come even a small part of this Republic. We know when we have had enough. 0 , i esaaaassBBBsa- sbssbsbbbbbi saaaaisBaBSsaBWsaBBj v I San Domingo Not Wanted. j The answer of Secretary Hay to the Haitien Minister that the United States has no intention whatever of acquiring possession of Haiti or San I Domingo nor of extending American influence in that direction should silence the alarmists who j have been seeing things since the State department undertook to bring San Domingo to time in the mat- ' I ter of paying debts and in regard to the rights of . . Americans in the island, j Our experience with the Philippines has not been ' Wo joyous that we long for a repetition of it. The Thilippines were thrust upon us, and while we 1 would like it better if someone else had them, we ! are bound to keep them. But to burden ourselves J with San Domingo or Haiti is out of the question. The negro problem is giving trouble enough in the South and even in the North without acquiring another an-other supply of it. The State department at the instigation of the President has been experimenting a little with the Monroe doctrine in the line of using it as an aid to |