Last year a group of American bankers undertook to do this and to advance funds for railway and other improvements contributing directly to the country's prosperity and commerce--an arrangement which has long been desired by this Government.
Taft notes the involvement of American bankers in funding improvements in Honduras to boost its prosperity.
Share
More from Bill Taft
I can not make myself a party to dealing with the industries of the country in this way.
But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the…
There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.
It appears that a Norwegian company has applied to the Cuban Government for permission to raise these wrecks and that before considering the proposition the Cuban Government desires to receive the views of the United States in regard…
Other voices in this conversation
