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70; navy, 79, 90; Asiatics in, 93, 94; Germans in,
98, 100.

British Guiana, boundary dispute, 11, 12.

Bryce, James, 20, 21, 82, 107, 108.

Buenos Aires, taxi-cabs in, 58; cartoons, 68.

CALDERON, Francisco Garcia, 23, 75.

California, Japanese in, 63, 93; annexation of, 41, 79,107.
Canada, 73.

Canal Zone, United States takes control, 34.
Cantonese in South America, 92.

Capital, British, in South America, 61.

Cartoons, Latin-American, 31; Argentine, 31, 68; Chil-
ean, 68, 69.

Central America, warships sent to, 1899, 33; our new
attitude in, 38; U. S. troops twice landed recently, 38;
74; 111.

Chile, war with Spain, 1866-67, 8, 9; "Itata" affair,
1891, 26, 27, 28; Alsop claim, 35, 86; wealth and im-
portance, 55, 56, 60, 61, 100; navy, 79, 90; Latin-
American Congress, 1908, 87, 89; Asiatics in, 92; am-
bassadors, exchange with, 110.

China, 58; 68; treaty rights, 80; 91.
Chinese in Peru, 91; in Mexico, 93.

Cleveland, President Grover, 11, 13, 14, 15.

Colombia, U. S. demand for damages, 1899, 33; U. S.
property seized, 1902, 33; territory taken from, 79 ;
Indian population, 91; Asiatics in, 92.

Color line in United States and Latin America, 23, 24.
Commerce, see Trade.

Communication and travel, difficulties in South America
to-day, 7.

Congress of American powers, 110.

Continent, synonymous with western hemisphere, 10.

Coolidge, A. C., 7 (note).

Cuba, Spanish American War, 30; recent intervention
in, 39, 79, 86; 41; 69.

Custom houses, Latin-American, 51.

DA GAMA, Admiral, 29.

Debts, Latin-American, enforced payment, 35, 36, 37,
38, 43, 44, 45.

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Dominican Republic, debt, 36, 37.

ECUADOR, trouble with, 1899, 33; present financial status,
45, 46; 69; 92; refuses U. S. assistance in sanitation,
82, 83; Indian population, 91.

GERMANS in South America, 74, 98, 99, 100.
Gil, Professor, 67.

Gorgas, Colonel, 82.

Grant, U. S., General, message on Santo Domingo, 9, 10.
Great Britain, Venezuela dispute, 11; danger of war with,
11; capital invested in South America, 61.

Guam, 32.

Guantanamo, 32, 40, 79.

Guatemala, Barrundia affair, 25, 26; present financial
status, 45, 46.

Guayaquil, sanitation of, 82, 83.

HAGUE, The, 84.

"Hegemony" of North America, 71.

Holy Alliance, 6.

Honduras, U.S. warships sent, 34, 35; comments of min-
ister on our new attitude, 38; 41; present financial
status, 45, 46.

Hrdlička, Ales, 91.

IMMIGRATION, Asiatic, 95.

Imperialism, 71, 72, 73, 74, 83, 86.

Independence, right of, 53.

International law, difference between law and policy, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17; overstepped, 26, 27; intervention and,

54.

International Scientific Congresses, 88.

International Union of American Republics, 18.

Intervention, European, forbidden by President Polk, 7;
menace of, 41, 42, 78; armed, to collect debts, 43, 44;
when legitimate, 54; cases objectionable to South
America, 79; necessity of checking, 79; and interfer-
ence, 82.

Investments, British, in South America, 61.
"Itata" affair, 26, 27.

JAPAN, 58.

Japanese, Magdalena Bay, 40, 92, 93; 63; 74; in South
America, 90; in Brazil, 93, 94; labor, 95; steamship
line, 96; in Peru, 96.

Jefferson, President Thomas, 71.

Jingoism, Venezuela controversy, 1895, 11, 12, 13; in
Chile affair, 1891, 27; 67.

KNOX, Secretary Philander C., 86, 87.

LA GUAIRA, 33.

La Plata, University of, 67.
Labor, Japanese, 95.

Latin America, not sympathetic through proximity, race,
or religion, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; financial status,
43, 44, 45, 46, 47; naval power, 78, 79; influenced
against U.S., 89, 108; European criticism, 72, 73, 74.
Latin-American alliance against U. S. tutelage, 66, 67,
72, 73, 74, 77, 78.

Latin-American Scientific Congress, 87, 88, 89.
Latin Crusade, 74, 77.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 39.

Lynchings in U. S., 77.

MAGDALENA Bay, 39, 40, 92, 93.

Mail steamers to Argentina, 62.

Marchi, Baron de, 95.

Maximilian, 8.

Mexican War, 1846, 107.

Mexico, Napoleon III and Maximilian, 8; 25; 68; 69;

debt, 46, 47; Texas and California, 79; U. S. army
mobilized on frontier, 79; Chinese in, 93.

Monroe, President James, 4, 10.

Monroe Doctrine, purpose and scope of present treatise,
preface, vii; text of original Doctrine, 3, appendix;
Austrian comment, 1824, 5; early history, 1823-66,
4, 5, 8; significance early recognized in Europe, 5;
when useful to Latin America, 6, 7, 107; Polk's in-
terpretation, no European intervention allowed, 7;
Seward's interpretation, (1) Maximilian, 8, (2) Chile,
War of 1866, 8, 9; Grant's interpretation, Santo Do-
mingo, 1870, 9, 10; aggressive attitude first assumed,
10; Olney's invocation, Venezuela, 11; not international
law, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17; compulsory arbitration, 17;
popularity in U. S. evidenced, 17; not concerned in

Venezuela controversy"? 17; founded on false pre-
mises, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; aggressive policy of 1892
dangerous, 27, 28; Olney's new doctrine, 30; compar-
ison of original and that of 1898, 32, 33; fruits of new
doctrine, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40; enforcing
payment of bad debt claims, 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 45;
Lodge Resolution, 39; interference with rights of sov-
ereign states, 40; heavy responsibility of U. S. under,
42, 47, 50, 52, 53, 108, 109; U. S. made international
policeman, 42, 45, 48; what it involves from two points
of view, 42, 43, 44; European loans, 43, 44, 45, 46,
47; U.S. made international mediator, 43,50; invoked
by Guatemala, 46; Roosevelt outlines new bearing, 47,
48, 49, 50, 51, 52; U. S. not obliged to prevent pun-
ishment for torts, 50, 51; contractual obligations, 51;
law of nations broken, 53; insulting from Latin-Amer-
ican point of view, 54; why not abandon? 55; Latin-
American strength proved, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61,
62, 63, 64; abandonment necessary, 64; imperialistic,
64, 65; Argentina's attitude, 65, 67, 68; Brazil's atti-
tude, 69; arms necessary for enforcement, 70; Latin-
American criticisms quoted, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75,
76, 77; "Doctrine of absorption," 71; adverse criti-
cism in Europe, 72, 73, 74; Peru's attitude, 73, 74,
75, 86; "outworn shibboleth," 77; dangers in present

tendency, 80, 81; Root's conciliatory policy, 83, 84,
85, 86; a selfish policy? 89; Asiatics in South America,
96; selfish point of view argument, 97; trade affected
by, 97, 98, 99; circumvention by Germany in South
America, 98, 99; cost to U. S. if adhered to, 102, 103,
104; detrimental to world's peace, 107; possible new
policy if abandoned, 109, 112; why held so tenaciously,
111; hated words in South America, 112.

NAPOLEON III, 8.

Naval resources of Latin America, 78, 79.

Nicaragua, Bluefields incident, 30; landing U. S. troops
in 1899, 33, 79; present financial status, 45; 86.
"North American Peril," 73.

OLNEY, Secretary Richard, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 24, 30,

43.

Orinoco River, 28.

PAN-AMERICAN Congress (Rio de Janeiro), 83, 84.

Pan-American Scientific Congress, 87, 88, 89, 110.
Pan-Americanism, 18, 19, 20, 24, 68, 92.

Pan-Hispanism, 22.

Panama, 33, 34, 41, 69, 82.

Panama Canal, 34, 40; tolls question, 80, 92.

Peace, international, 104, 105, 107.

Peru, travel in, 7; attitude to U. S., 73, 74, 75, 76, 77;
to Monroe Doctrine, 83, 86; Chinese in, 91, 92; Jap-
anese, 96; products, 100.

Phelps, E. J., 15.

Philippines, 31, 32.

Polk, President James K., 7.

Porto Rico, 32, 41, 69, 79.

Putumayo atrocities, 7, 75, 76, 77.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Congress), 83.

Ritz-Carlton hotels, 57.

Roosevelt, President Theodore, 35, 38, 39, 47, 49, 50,

52, 67.

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