AMERICA'S DIFFICULTIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 3

AMERICA'S DIFFICULTIES.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 8. The press is concerned with the growing difficulties of America's relations' with, the Latin republics. It was point, ed out m Congress that m Hayti' the ' forms of Government had disappeared; > m San Domingo trouble was brewing ; .m Venezuela revolutionary activities were ' \ manifest ; Brazil and^Columbia were agitated by fierce elections; while' the Carribean republics distrust' Washing- ". ton. Under these circumstances President Wilson's notions of constitutional government were prejudicing America with the Latin Council. . LONDON, February, 7, \- Responsible journalistic opinion m the United States warmly pays tributes to : Britain for abstention irom embarrassing inquiries as to President Wilson's Mex- • ican policy. . . - The American Ambassador, m a speech . at the Newcastle Chamßer of Com- ■ ■ merce dinner, said that if anyone thought the United States wanted to- acquire Mexico or establish a protectorate . he had missed the key to the whole de,- . \ velopment of Republican institutional. ' America did not desire more territoyy. • He added that the principle that eve*ry' people must govern itself applied -id Mexico and to all other Southern £*ate_v;'.' (Received Feb. 9. 10.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 8. In the Bouse of Representatives the ' Chairman of the Foreign ■ Commerce;" Committee asserted that the free tolls provision was inserted m the Democratic platform without the knowledge of the minority of the resolutions of the Committee. In consequence of this discbv--ery the way was now clear for a Con- " gressional debate upon repealing the measure. Tlie subject is not a cardinal plank. : of the Democratic platform. Therefore ..'" it is not likely that there will be any - real resistance to the President's- pro- . gramme.