The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-12-09
TAFT
DELIVERS FIRST
ANNUAL MESSAGE
Favors Ship Subsidy, Postal
Banks and Civil Service
Pension Plan.
lot ToAsTINa FOR L A
Imsndment Of interstate Commerce
and Antitrust Laws. He An.
nounees, Will Be Handled in
Special Message.

nounces, Will Be Handled in
Special Message.
washington Special-Following Is a
,mmary of President Taft's first annual
Message which was delivered to both
ouses Of congrass:
After reviewing at considerable
ength the satisfactory relations be-
ween the United States and European
overs, President Taft takes up the
|elations between this country and
latin America. saying In part:
Protect American Capital.
Today, more than ever before. Ameri-
ign countries. and American products
re more and more generally seeking for
kign markets. AS q consequence, In all
american interests to be protected, on
occasion, by their government. These
movements of men. OF capital. and OF
nents closer together and so form bonds
Il peace and mutual, dependency, as they
must also naturally sometimes make
situation inevitably imposes upon this
koyernment vastly increased responsible
ties. This administration. through the
department. Of state and the foreign serv-
ce, is lending all proper support TO legit-
mate and beneficial American enterprises
n foreign countries, the degree Of such
buppOTl DtluS nltdSuTtu Dy Ins udtlOIldl
advantages 10 be expected. A citizen
himself can not by contract or otherwise
divest himself Of the right, nor can this
government escape the obligation, Of his
protection in his personal and property
rights when these are unjustly infringed
in a foreign country. To avoid ceaseless
tng whether American enterprise should
be encouraged or supported In a partic-
ular country, the government should give
opposed to the Individual DEMENT'S to ac-
crue, but also to the fact whether or not
the government of the country In .ques-
diplomacy faithful to the principles of
which alone depend International credits,
The Pan-American policy of this gov
eminent has long been fixed in its prin-
ciples and remains unchaAged. With the
States and Of the republics to the south
of US, most of which have great natural
resources, stable government and pro-
gave rise to the Monroe doctrine may be
said to have nearly disappeared. n
neither the doctrine as 1t exists nor any
be permitted to operate for the perpetual
alton of irresponsible government the
escape of just obligations. or the insidi-
the part of the United States.
Beside the fundamental doctrines of
our Pan-American policy. there have
SIoWD UP u ItdllLdtlOH OF DOltlCal IN
t%erests, community of institutions and
ideals, and a flourishing commerce.. All
these bonds will be greatly strengthened
such as the great bank soon to be estab,
lished in Latin America. supply the
means for building up the colossal inter-
continental Of the future.
Meeting With Diax.
My meeting with President Diaz and
the greeting exchanged on both American
and Mexican soil served, 1 hope, to sig
nalize the close and cordial relations
which SO well bind together this repub-
to the south. between which there Is so
vast a network Of material interests.
Of tS am ca napp ybi to say Fay t.. that 1tns all but one
relations with Venezuela have been set
tied within the past few months, and
that, under the enlightened regime now
directing the government of Venezuela,
provision has been made. for arbitration
or the remaining case before The Hague
On July 30, 1909, the government of Pan
anna agreed, after considerable negotia-
ton, to indemnity the relatives Of the
Amer,ean officers and sailors who were
prutally treated, one of them having, in
deed. beer killed by the Panaman police
The sincere desire of the government of
where such an accident could occur is
manifest In the recent request in com
RI ent he with Which this goyernment has
army to be employed by the government
OF panama as instructor of police.
p ane collection rao,,f Of the customs Of the
receiver of customs appointed BY the
president of the United States in ac-
cordsncs with the convention of Febru-
airy 8, 1907. has proceeded in an unevent-
iur and satisfactory n
Ihis government was. obliged to inter-
yene automatically to bring about arbi-
{Taton or settlement Of the claim of the
Emery company against Mica ra pIIa
which 1t had long before been agreed
s sh;s be arbitrated. A settlement of
the signature of a protocol on September
Many years ago diplomatic Intervention
interests In the American claim of Aslop
& Company against the government Of
Chile; There had been two abortlve at
missions, which failed through lack of
jurisdiction. Now. happily, as the re-
suit sui OF the recent diplomatic NEGOTIATIONS.
and OF Chile. actuated by the sincere
9esire t9 free from any strain those cor
Snth and snd friendly relations upon, which
protocol to submit the controversy to
defnitive settlement by His Britannia
Majesty. Edward VII.
Zelaya ls Scored.
,o since the WASHINGTON conventions of
ment of the United States as a Consult
Ing and advising party. this government
mas been almost continuously called upon
by one or another, and in turn by aft of
the five Central American republics' Ia
exert itself for the maintenance OF the
con yentions. -
Nearly every complaint has been
against the Zelaya government or Mica
ragua, which has kept Central America
In constant tension or turmoil. The re-
sponses made to the representations of
Central American republics, as due from
tho United States on account of its rela-
ton to the Washington conventions, have
Deem AZ all times conservative and have
avoided, so far as possible, any sem
blance OF Interference, although IL Is very
apparent that the considerations of geo
graphic proximity to the canal zone and
OF the very substantial American inter-
ests in Central America give to the
United States a special position in the
zone of these republics and the Carib-
bean sea.
1 need not rehearse here the patient eff
forts OF this government to promote peace
and welfare among these republics, eff
forts which are fully appreciated by the
majority of them who are loyal to their
true interc SIS. 1t would be no less un-
necessary to rehearse here the sad tale
of unspeakable barbarities and oppres-
sion alleged to have been committed by
the Zelaya government. Recently two
Americans were put TO death by order of
President Zeiaya himself. They were re-
ported to have been regularly commits
stoned officers in the organized forces of
Week. and was proceeding In an orderly
T0GhiAn IN nnntrAl ~ ahaIlf hale nf tho