Norwich bulletin., 1910-12-07
THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Foreign Trade Is Improving-Mss-
 chant Marine Development.

All these tariff negotiations, so vital to our commerce and industry, and the duty of jealousy guarding the equi- table and just treatment of our prod ucts. capital and industry abroad dc volve upon the department of state.
 The Argentine battleship contracts, like the subsequent important one for Argentine railway equipment and those for Cuban government vessels, were secured for our manufacturers largely through the good offices of the depart ment of state.
 The efforts of that department to se- cure for citizens of the United States equal opportunities in the markets of the world and to expand American commerce have been most successful.
 The volume of business obtained iu new fields of competition and upon new lines is already very great. and congress is urged to continue to sup port the department of state in it's en- deavors for further trade expansion.
 Our foreign trade merits the best support of the government and the most earnest endeavor of our manu- lecturers and merchants, who. if they do not already in all cases need for eign market, are certain soon to be- come dependent on it. Therefore, now is the time to secure s strong position in this field.
 l cannot leave this subject without emphasizing the necessity of such leg islation as will make possible and con- venient the establishment of Americen ha oF A hap in foreign countries. Only by such means can our foreign trade be favos- ably financed, necessary credits be ar ranged and proper avail be made of commercial opportunities in foreign countries, and most especially in Latin America
 Another instrumentality indispeuss- ble to the unhampered and natural de- yelOpment of American commerce iH merchant marine. All maritime and commercial nations recognize the irm- portance of this factor. The greatest commercial nations our competitors, jealously foster their merchant ma rine. Perhaps nowhere is the need fsr rapid and direct mail, passenger and freight communication quite so urgent as between the United States and Latin America. We can secure in no other quarter of the world such imme- diate benefits in friendship and com. merce as would flow from the estah. lishment of direct lines of communicA. ton with the countries of Latin Amer. ica adequate to meet the requirements of rapidly increasing appreciation of fha YaCirr0<sn1 nf tft> tries of the western hemisphere upon. each others products, sympathies and assistance
 ] alluded to this most important sut- iect in my last annual message. IL has often been before you, and need not recapitulate the reasons for fits recorp- mendation- Unless prompt action bs taken the completion of the Panama canal will find this the only great commercial nation unable to avail in international maritime business of thfs great contribution to the means of the worlds commercial intarcouxse
 Quite aside from the commercial as pect, unless we create a merchant ma rine where can we find the seafarinR population necessary as a natural na- val reserve and where could VIC find, in case of war. the transports and sub- sidiary vessels without which . naval fleet is arms without body? For many reasons I cannot too strongly urge upon the congress the passage of measure by mail subsidy or other subvention adequate to guarantee the establishment and rapid development of an American merchant marine, the restoration of the American flag to it's ancient place upon the seas.
 With our increasing International in. tercourse 1t becomes incumbent upo8 ne to repeat more emphatically tAau ever the recommendation which made in my inaugural address that congress shall at once give to the courts of tho United StAtas jurfsdic- ton to punish aa c erime the violation of the rights of aliens secured by trsa- ty with ths un1tsd otatss n eFdee that the Ke1AA saxasnnQS = tha 0lttQ1