New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-07-09
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
An Authentic Statement Showing
What Blaine's Foreign Policy
Really Means.
Blaine's Foreign Policy.

Peace Congress is a full exposition OF
his views. If it had not been revoked
after he left the State Department
great good would have followed. Read
the dispatch and see where the war
spirit comes in. Here it is:
y DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHING
TON, d. c., November. %, 1S81-DEAR
SIR: The attitude Of the United States
with respect to the question of general
peace on the American continent is
well known through it's persistent eff
forts for years past to avert the evils of
warfare, or, these efforts failing, to
bring positive conflicts to an end
through pacific cOunsels or the advOca-
cy of Impartial arbitration.
This attitude has been consistently
maintained, and always with such fair
ness as to leave no room for imputing
to our Government any motive except
the humane and disinterested one Of
saving the kindred States of the Amer
lean continent from the burdens of war.
The position of the United States as
the leading power Of the New World
might we'll give to it's Government a
claim to authoritative utterance for the
purpose of quieting discord among its
ileighbors, with all Of whom the most
friendly relations exist. Nevertheless
the good Offices of this Government are
not and have not at any time been ten
dered with a show Of dictati0n or COM
pulsion, but only as exhibiting the solic-
it0us goodwill Of common friend.
For some years past a growing disp0-
sitiOn has been manifested by certain
States of Central and South America to
refer disputes affecting grave questions
of international elatiOnship and bOun-
DIARIES to arbitration rather than to the
sword. 1t has been on several such oc-
casiOns a source Of profound satisfac-
tion to the Government of the United
large measure looked to by all the
mediator. The just and impartial
counsel Of the President in such cases
has never been withheld, and his efforts
have beenrewarded by the prevention
Of sanguinary strife or angry conten-
ton between peoples whom we regard
as brethren.
The existence of this growing ten
dency c0nvinces the President that the
time is ripe for proposal that shall
enlist the goodwill and active cooper
alton Of all the States of the Western
Hemisphere, both North and South, in
the interest Of humanity and for the
common veal of nations. He cOncelves
that none Of the Governments Of
America can be less alive than our own
to the dangers and horrors Of a state Of
war, and especially of war between
kinsmen. He is sure that none of the
chiefs of Governments on the continent
can be less sensitive than he is to the
sacred duty of making every endeavOr
to do away with the chances Of fratri-
cidal strife. And he looks with hope
full confidence to such active assistance
from them as will serve to show the
brOadness of our common humanity,
and the strength Of the ties that bind
us all together as great and harmOni-
Gus system Of American common
wealths. b. 5r 3.
Impressed by these views, the Presi-
dent extends to all independent coln-
tries of North and South America an
earnest invitation to participate in a
general congress to be held in the city
Of Washington on the oath day of No
vember, 1882, for the purpose Of con-
sidering and discussing the methods of
preventing war between the nations Of
America. He desires that the atten-
ton Of the congress shall be strictly
confined to this one great object; that
its sole aim shall be to seek a. way Of
permanently averting the horrors Of
cruel and bloody combat between coun-
tries, oftenest Of one blood and speech,
commotion and civil strife; that it shall
regard the burdensome and far-reach-
ing consequences Of such struggles, the
legacies of exhausted finances, Of OPP
pressive debt, Of onerous taxation, Of
ruined cities, OF paralyzed Industries,
of devastated fields, Of ruthless con-
scription, Of the slaughter Of men, OF
the grief of the widow and the orphan,
of embittered resentments that long
survive those who provoked them and
heavily afflicted the innocent genera
tons that come after.
The President is especially DESTROYS
to have it understood that, in putting
forth this invitation, the United States
does not assume the position Of cOun-
selling, or attempting through the voice
OF the congress to counsel any detef-
inmate solution Of existing questions
which may now divide any Of the coqn-
tries ct America Such questions cam
not properly come before the congress-.
Its mission is higher. It is to provide
for the interests Of all in the future,
not to settle the individual differences
OF the present. For this reason espec-
tally the President has indicated 8 day
for the assembling Of the congress 50
far in the future as to have good ground
for hope that by the time named the
present situation on the South Pacific
eOastWin happily be terminated, and
That those engaged in the contest may