The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-04
Huntington Wilson, Assist
ant Secretary of State,
Sounds Keynote of Taft's
Foreign Policy.
WANTS DIPLOMATIC
SERVICE BETTERED
Wilson Points to Fact that
Administration Has Pre-
vented Two Wars and a
Civil Revolution.
{American News Service)

tAmerican News Service)
Baltimore. Md, May 4.-Speaking
for the administration, Huntington
Wilson. assistant secretary of state,
today sounded the keynote of Presi-
dent Taft's foreign policy with the as
surance that Dollar Diplomacy" will
hereafter be used in seeking supre-
macy for the United States in its
struggle with the other world powers.
In an address before the Third Ma
tionai Peace congress he showed that
the policy of this nation will be to
avoid martial conflict by iddissolubly
uniting the commercial bands that link
us with other countries.
Besides discussing the new diplo-
macy in it's relation to the Presidents
well known desire for international
peace. the secretary made an appeal
for speedy action on the Lowden bill
for the improvement of the foreign
service, now before the senate. In a
criticism of the press of the United
States, he included tentative scheme
for utilizing the Carnegie Peace Fund
to establish or subsidize conservative
papers to counteract the sensational
press "of the Far East and Latin
countries
Dollars For Bullets.
The Dollar Diplomacy" of the pre-
sent administration, according to the
Assistant Secretary OF State. means
1.-The substitution of dollars for bull
let's" literally by the investment OF
American capital in foreign countries
with which there may at some future
time be strained relations. He cited
as instances of the efficacy of this gov
ernment policy the tripartite media
ton of the Argentine Republic, Bra
zil, and the United States, which re
suited in the suspension of war be-
tween Ecuador and Peru; the inter-
ference Of this government in the
Haiti Dominican Republic melee; aud
many other cases where American
capital indirectly brought about the
cessation Of war and helped to smooth
over diplomatic difficulties.
Regarding the Lowden bill, mea-
sure which has been for some time
before the United States senate and
which provides many radical changes
in the diplomatic service, Mr.. Wilson,
of the government as the guardian OF
the nations peace through benevo-
lent and candid diplomacy, came
strongly to the front with plea that
the service on whose shoulders rests.
or may rest at any moment, the peace
of the nation should be amateurish
and unframed"
Fears Yellow Press.
He deplored the tendency OF the
press toward sensationalism and sees
III the readiness with which certain
newspapers print inflamatory and
misleading stories regarding the dip.
iomatic actions OF the United States
danger to international peace by the
formation of national character
whose excitability would greatly ham
per diplomatic arbitration. This
steady growth of an excitable national
character, under the tutelage OF the
sensational press, which, to use Mr.
Wilson's words, horribly hampers the
true ueldAS VAu pOA1SiCo ~ SAC E0s
ernment" might, he suggests, be en-.
countered by the establishment OF
four or five newspapers in the United
States and Latin America. with q
nonpartisan and patriotic guidance OF
policy by trustees who should de dis
sociated with the government and in.
dependentIy representative of patri
otic American citizenship"
After paying compliment to the
Taft administration by stating that
he was proud to be associated with
an administration which had already
actually prevented three wars; namely
between Ecuador and Peru: Haiti and
the Dominican Republic, and a civil
strife in Honduras. Mr.. Nilsson said:
Among other practical modes Of
pursuing the ideal of worlds peace
is the true meaning OF what has been
called Dollar Diplomacy Here. for.
tunately. the idealists interest in for.