Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1909-12-15

| and / hopeSit will bind together the
cordial relationss between the two
republics.
All but one of the vexing questions
with Venezuela have been adjusted
!! and that is to be referred to the
Hague tribunal.
The government Of Panama has
agreed to indemnify relatives OF Amer
lean officers and sailors brutally treat
ed by the Panama police and a re.
currence-Mill be assiduously guarded
against.
Our Relations With Cuba.
The sanitary Improvements and
public works undertaken in Cuba
prior to the present administration OF
| that government, in the success OF
which the United States is interest
ed under the treaty, ar reported to be
making good progress, and diplomatic
relations promise to be promoted
thereby.
The receivership for the Dominican
Republic has demonstrated its ability,
even under %mfayorable economic and
political conditions, to do the work
for which it was inteded.
This government was obliged to In
tervene automatically to bring about
arbitration or sett,,. nent of the claim
Of the Emery company against Mica
ragua, which it had long before been
agreed should be arbitrated. A settle
ment of this troublesome case was
recahed by the signature Of q protocol
on Sept. Is, 1909.
Many years ago diiomatic %interven-
tion became necessary to the protec-
ton of the interests in the American
claim of Alsop & Co. against the
government of Chile. The matter
will be arbitrated by King Edward.
Since the Washington conventions
Of 1907 were communicated to the
government of the United States as a
consulting and advising party this
government hasfbeen almost continu-
ously called upon by n or another
and in turn by ali of the five Central
American republics to exrt itself for
the maintenance of the conventions.
Nearly every complaint has been
against the Zelaya government Of
Nicaragua, which has kept Central
America in constant tension or tur-
moil. Two American citizens, officers
in the i%nsurgent army, were barbar-
ously treated and executed by order
of Zelaya. According to the modern
enlightened practice of civilized ma
tons, they were entitled to be dealt
with as prisoners of a This gov
eminent has severed diplomatic re-
lations with the Zelayan government.
international Board of American Re-
publics Good Work.
The international bureau of Amer
lean republics has carried on an i'm
portant and increasing work during
the last year. In the exercise Of its
peculiar functions as an international
agency, maintained by all the Ameri-
can republics for the development of
pan-American commerce and friend
ship, it has accomplished a great
practical good which could be done in
the same way by no individual de-
partment OF bureau of one govern
ment and is therefore deserving Of
your liberal support.
1t is gratifying that Americans will
by treaty take their share in Chinese
extension Of the great highways Of
trade and to believe that such activ-
tiles will give a real impetus to our.
commerce and vii prove q practical
corollary to our historic policy inthe
far east. a considerable number of
Chinese students are attending our
schools and the inflnencesswil doubt
less be beneficial to both nations. The
Chinese government is making con-
siderable progress In the restriction
upon opium and recommend that its
sale and use as far as possible be re-
stricted in this government.
China and Japan disavow the idea
that am equal chance in mining in
Manchuria is withheld from Ameri-
cans by. any kind of monopoly.
The treaty formed with Siam made
in 1856 is largely out of date and
the department Of State is consider
ing its revision.
I earnestly recommend to Congress
the plan to have divisions of Latin
American and far eastern affairs and
to institute a certain specification in
business with Europe and the near
east. 1t should be remembered that
such facilities exist in the foreign Of
fees of all the leading commercial
nations and that to deny them to the
secretary of state would be to place
this government at a great disadvan-
tage in the rivalry Of commercial
competition. :,
The consular service has been
greatly improved under the law Of
April 5, 1906, and the executive or
der of June 81, 1906, and I commend
10 your consideration the question Of
embodying in q statute the principles
Of the present executive order upon
which. the efficiency of our consular
service is wholly dependent.
About the Tariff.
I have appointed three officials to
assist the officers Of the government
in collecting information necessary to
a wise administration Of the tariff
act of August Is, 1909. 1t is hoped
thus to coordinate, and bring to bear
upon this most important subject all