Capitolo 36
it is true, you/he/she has not succeeded in making the great progress in one century, you/he/she has done
entirely as a lot of progress as England it did during some equal period
immediately after Rome withdrew from him. And that degree of the slowness in
growth that with equanimity you/he/she has been borne by us in Hayti, it was able
is certainly borne by us in islands on the coast of Asia. You/he/she cannot be
gainsaid that, through ours insisting on the policy of the not-interference
us, and of the not-interference from European nations, Hayti has been,
it brought a position where on the tall road to the best things is in
future. That has been the result of the American and prescriptive policy.
With Mexico, the case is stronger far. All of us know that in 1848, later
our war of dispossession, we had to sustain on a semblance of a government
for Mexico with which to negotiate an essay of the peace. Mexico to that
time was reduced by us to a condition of the absolute anarchy. Under the theory
now earning in fashion, you/he/she would have been then our simple duty to do of
Mexico an additional-territorial dependence, and it protects him/it against him.
We frequented wisely a different course. As the other Spanish communities in
America, Mexico that passed through a succession of revolutions, from
what it became apparent the people were not in an appropriate condition for
self-government. Nevertheless, insisting austerely on not-interference from
out the powers, us us wisely the left that country to work out his/her
his/her own salvation in his/her his/her own way.
In 1862, when the United States was involved in the War of the
Rebellion, the Europeans took advantage of the situation to invade
Mexico, and to establish a stable government" there." They undertook
protects that people against them, and to erect for them a kind
of protectorate as us now proposes for Philippines. Hardly
our war was ended, we insisted on the withdrawal of Europe from Mexico.
That that followed is matter of recent history. It is necessary not to call