...the United States as something very different from "a friend and ally." Mr. Oiney's statement that "The United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subject to which it confines its interposition," was received with anything but cordiality by the LatinAmerican...

...strength and power. To-day the United States la practically sovereign on this continent, and Its flat la law upon the subjects to which It confines Its Interposition. Why? It la not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for It. It la not simply by reason of Its high...

...question and boldly announced that the United States was master in the Western Hemisphere, saying: The United States is practically sovereign on this...felt for it. It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized state, nor because wisdom and equity are the invariable characteristics of...

...national life on the part of Powers with whom they had long maintained the most harmonious relations Today the United States is practically sovereign on...which it confines its interposition. Why ? . . . It is because, in addition to all other grounds, its infinite resources combined with its isolated position...

...national life on the part of Powers with whom they had long maintained the most harmonious relations Today the United States is practically sovereign on...which it confines its interposition. Why ? . . . It is because, in addition to all other grounds, its infinite resources combined with its isolated position...

...the ultimate extinction of European colonial possessions, he announced with reference to the present, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Great Britain, he declared, could not be considered as a South American power; if she advanced her...

...settle the interior affairs of America itself. This was the occasion of Secretary Olney's famous dictum, "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Later developments would seem to be in harmony with the principle thus laid down by President Cleveland,...

..."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...

...President Wilson's restatements of the doctrine supersede Secretary Olney's extreme declaration that the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat law, but there are senators, politicians and editors who still claim that the right to do whatsoever...

...Civilization must either advance or retrograde accordingly as its supremacy is extended or curtailed. . . . "Today the United States is practically sovereign...which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not simply by reason of its high character as a civilized state, nor because wisdom and justice and equity...