 | International law - 1922 - 634 pages
...strength. This sense of the Monroe Doctrine is that given it by Secretary Olney in 1895 when he said "the United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. " Commercially, this absurd way of talking has been used as a rule for claiming unfair advantage hi... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1912 - 884 pages
...permanent political union between an European and an American state unnatural and inexpedient" ; and that "to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition:" all these doctrines Mr. Olney believed to be "the accepted public law of this country." This despatch... | |
 | William Isaac Hull - Peace - 1912 - 240 pages
...cast a larger and larger shadow over this hemisphere, from 1895, when Secretary Olney asserted that " to-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition," down to the revolution of November, 1903, when the province of Panama seceded from Colombia and became,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 530 pages
...the regard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason... | |
 | Herbert Kraus - Monroe doctrine - 1913 - 488 pages
...the regard and respect of other states it must be largely dependent upon its own strength and power. To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. Why? It is not because of the pure friendship or good will felt for it. It is not simply by reason... | |
 | Frank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin - English prose literature - 1914 - 690 pages
...Venezuela boundary dispute with Great Britain during Cleveland's administration, Mr. Olney asserted : " To-day the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." F. England prompted the original declaration of the Doctrine, and English statesmen while in office... | |
 | Charles Morris - Mexico - 1914 - 412 pages
...this President Cleveland took a firm stand on the side of Venezuela, and Secretary Olney declared: "Today the United States is practically sovereign...subjects to which it confines its interposition." Cleveland plainly hinted at war if the rights of Venezuela were not respected, and Great Britain, after... | |
 | William Howard Taft - Arbitration (International law) - 1914 - 204 pages
...sustained by a resolution which was passed by both houses. In this instance Mr. Olney used the expression: To-day the United States is practically sovereign...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. [5] The original declaration of the Monroe Doctrine was prompted by England's wish, when Canning was... | |
 | Charles Fletcher Lummis - California - 1905 - 712 pages
...dispose of the person and property of a neighbor. It was bad enough when Secretary Olney declared, "The United States is practically sovereign on this...the subjects to which it confines its interposition. "f Under circumstances so discreditable to ourselves, it ought to be the duty of every good citizen... | |
 | University of Missouri - Social sciences - 1914 - 156 pages
...meant "political control to be lost by one party and gained by the other." "Today," Mr. Olney declared, "the United States is practically sovereign on this...subjects to which it confines its interposition." All the advantages of this superiority were at once imperilled, he affirmed, if the principle that... | |
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To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition. 
