The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-02-12
PREVENTATIVE HARRISON AT.
TACkS DIPLOMATIC STROKES
OF SECRETARY.
GROWS VERY SARCASTIC HYDE IS UNPERTURBED
Congressman Mentions Instances in
Which He Claims the Course pur.
sued by Presidents Chief Adviser
Was a Failure--Says II Is Difficult
to Get Men OF Ability.

Washington, Feb ll.--SecretarS Of
state Knox was subjected TO caustie
criticism IN the house today hg Rep
rcscntailve Francis Burton Harrison of
New York. ia consideration Of the
diplomatic ana consular appropriation
hil MANY bold strokes in diplomacy
said Mr. Harrison. were justified only
by their success. as In the instance of
President cleveand's Venezuelan mes
sage But that had not been the case
with some OF the bold strokes OF
diplomacy made by Secretary Knox. he
said The Nicaraguan cmbroglio, the
Manohuran railway matter and the
secretary's declaration that he would
make 1t his duty to see that democratic
forms of government were maintained
In Central America. were examples OF
failure In the diplomacy of Mr.. Knox.
he said
This position Ii so untenable." he
added. referring to the maintenance
Of democratic governments In Central
America. that some day we viii be
obliged to retire from II with morii-
fication."
There had been an obvious df.
| ficulty I'm getting men of popular char
acter and ability To serve the United
States abroad. said Mr.. Harrison. The
French mission was vacant for months
until a man OF proper caliber could be
found he added. Take Austria.
where "a man or. &. Kcrens) has been
sent To represent the United States
after having his fitness for the posi-
tion measured chiefly by the size Of
his campaign contribution. Take ,hc
English mission After that position
had been declined publicly by noted
| educator tDr. Elliott. II has been uf
| fered by "a New York newspaper 10
Paul Morton and II Mr.. Morton Is APP
pointed that act viii be to award a
self confessed violator OF law and It
will become patent to all the world
that the path Of the rebater Is to lead
10 the foot Of the throne This DIFF
I flculty In finding good men for foreign
missions. Mr.. Harrison said. was the
result of the destruction of diplomacy
/ by tho ocean cable
Messenger Boys.
To-day the ambassadors are too
often messenger boys In knee breeches
with swords, who spend their time In
royalty or in playing the part Of
Hands across the sea, !" he continued,
ITO an active. virlle man such a
! position would seem impossible"
Into this atmosphere Of decadence,
! Mr.. Knox has Injected a breath OF
! fresh air by a suggestion Of dollar
| diplomacy or the policy of valuing
foreign representatives by the amount
OF cash they turn into the channels Of
American trade.
This dollar diplomacy Will no
J minds OF those ambassadors who
spend their days in the society of peo.
pie where the mere mention of trade
Is vulgar
Replying. Chairman Perkins OF the
! committee on foreign affairs, said he
was inclined to believe with him that
! 1t would be lmpractlcable TO see that
/ republican forms Of government were
established In Central America. but he
did not believe that the prestige of the
United States in the far east had been
! injured The success Of American
! bankers In obtaining participation in
the Chinese loan was an evidence OF
the good effect of Mr.. Knox's course.
Mr. Harrison asked whether the
American share of that loan had not
been obtained by bankers of New York
who We're known as the money
trust while others bankers had been
unable to get share of It,
Loan Gotten.
Mr. Perkins replied that. while he
did not know about that phase of the
matter, the fact remained that the
loan had come to the United States,
BY Influence Of ''velyety hand and
big stick administration combined, 3"
the state department. said MIR Fit2-
gerald, is extending American trade
In Manchuria. He expressed surprise
that American shipbulders had been
able to obtain contracts to build two
battleships for Argentina and sug
gested the possibility of some coercive
measure by the state department. He
spoke Of the loan recently made to
Honduras by American bankers as
pointing to the same thing
These things were done in the in
terest, he said, of select band OF
financiers under the protecting and
helpful wing Of the state department
on the theory that they involve a
beneficent extension of trade Is held
Representative Fassett of New Yori
declared in reply that the battlesh.p
/, contracts had been made possible by