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...State Department was requested by President Diaz of Nicaragua to send down an expert to survey Nicaragua's finances. Nicaragua needed more money. U. S. bankers were wary of loaning more money to a country already requiring U. S. Marines to put it in order and thus safeguard present U. S. loans & property. The State Department assigned the survey to Dr. William Wilson Cumberland, who was just through serving as U. S. financial dictator of Haiti. Dr. Cumberland went, saw and reported last March to Secretary Kellogg on the fiscal state of Nicaragua. President Diaz took his copy...
That the U. S. State Department nominate, and Nicaragua's president appoint, a Collector-General and an Auditor-General for Nicaragua, both to be Americans, to safeguard the U. S. interests involved and ensure Nicaraguan stability. These officers "would be welcomed by the Nicaraguan people," asserted Dr. Cumberland...
...Commercial business requires a concentration of responsibility. Self-government requires decentralization and many checks and balances to safeguard liberty. Our Government, to succeed in business, would need to become in effect a despotism...
...recommended that it be dedicated to agriculture for research purposes and development of fertilizers in addition to its national defense reserve. After these purposes are satisfied, there is a by-product of surplus power. That by-product should be disposed of on such terms and conditions as will safeguard and protect all public interests...
...said: "The purpose of the tariff is not to balance the books of business corporations, but to safeguard the family budget. ... It has become the funda¬mental safeguard of the American work¬man and the American farmer . . . A retreat to the Underwood tariff scheduless on farm produce would ruin millions of our farmers todayo...