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Show THE "DRAQO DOCTRINE." Wlmt is thdjiDrogoI 'doctrine," whlehiis to bclttdedMbm the dc-Ibemtions dc-Ibemtions of rirtrillnguW conference? confer-ence? It has nothing fo do with the Into Queen Drnga of Servin, but derives de-rives its name from Dr. Drago, foreign for-eign minister of tho Argentine Ite-public, Ite-public, who, imitating the example if President Sfdnroe, enunciated the convenient theory thnt debt6 owed to fhe citizens of one government by tho't of another may not be "collected" "col-lected" by force. This was whon tho combined fleets of England, Ger-mary Ger-mary nnd Italy in 1902 appeared off Veuezuela and caused Mr. Kipling to write his "l?6wejrs." This "Drago doctrine" was naturally hailed with enthusiasm by nil the money-borrowing republics of South America; but they were told from Washington that it could not be regarded as a subclause of tho Monroe doctrine. - |