The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
WIN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR
By w. A. Du Puy

-HAT the United States may take
her position among the great world
powers under the conditions that
Il have come 10 exist In the last dec
ade; that she may go out after
the world business which her citizens
have lust begun to want. that she may
place her steady!ng hand upon the trorU-
lc,.s nations TO the south and bring about
CONTINENTAL pcece; tnat she may lena a
hand IN the modernizing OF the rar cast
ana tao rear cast. that these and a score
OF other things equally important may
be done. the American s;ate department
ilsas found Il necessary TO throw oti Inc
browse Of tic past and become exceed
incly active. IN doing this the depart
ment has found 1t necessary 10 initiate
"A score of new branches and TO place at
the head cf these active Young men typi-
fling TIC American spirit and determined
10 make the American influence felt the
world around. Just now the world Is
waking up to the existence ot this new
determine tion. 1t Is inquirlng Into the
manner % it. 1t is askfng about this new
work
Iaquirers are finding beck of the move
nlent score OF young men at Washing
ION. These .men are culled from all those
Americans who have had the good for
tame OF great experience in international
affairs. who have had trainings that fit
them for the handling OF given great
propositions where the need is great.
These young men are being told TO go
forth and deliver Tie goods. The results.
are showing them equal TO the trust
Getting World Trade.
Take, for example the foreign trade OF
tho United states In the 200 years that
this nation has taken in growing out o.
irs swaddiing clothes 1T had developed in
louo. 4 business with the outside world
amounting 10 two billion dollars a year.
IN tho first decade OF the present century
that business Jumped by more than an
additional Billion, The United States had
never realized an ambition TO become a.
worlI power previous TO the Spanish
American war That war caused not only
her statesmen but her merchants 10 be-
gin 10 look abroad The statesmen found
a fertile field Tor national influence and
the merchants found a prospective mar
lSet for all they might produce.
The consular service OF this nation al
ready had representatives. at every i'm
pclIart post IN the word. but those rep
lesentajives had teen performing COM
Taraiively small services for the very
good reascn that there was home mar
ket FOR everything that America pro-
duced aud she had never thought Of
going beyond that market. Further than
th!s. the consular service was entirely
under tho old political spois system. and
the men who made II up We're placed
Upon a shelf cf inactivity rather than
th!ust into the hustle Of international
In an RSosevelt,s time the spoils sys
ten was 5nall% done away with. and un
Ger ,ir Knox the red blood of business
activity IS being sent through the whole
consular structure.
The post Of director OF the consular
To that post has been appointed Wilbur
j. Carr OF New York. one OF the most
cXpec. .enccd young officials OF the depart
mont He has served IA the state depart,
men, since 1892. Ee has been confiden-
tiai clerk To several assistant secretaries.
chief clerk OF the department The
province OF the director tf the consular
service is 10 go out after the business
OF the world. The mere routine OF the
service is aside from his work
A short time ago, for Instance. Servia
WAS contemplating putting an additional
duty on American cottonseed oil The
director OF the consular service got busy.
with the result THAT instead of being in
creased the duty was lowered Today we
oil 10 Servia. where we formerly shipped
nut 800 barrels. The manufacturers OF
ln1erica ask Mr. Carr for fields for mar
ting their material He finds. these