The daily sentinel. [volume] (Grand Junction, Colo.) 1893-current, 1911-12-07
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
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steadily. Double tariff feature pro-
tects American interests.
CRYING NEED FOR AMERICAN
MERCHANT MARINE.
Extension of American banking to
foreign nations.
Chamber of foreign commerce sug-
gested and approved by president.
The following message of President
Taft on foreign relations was read
today to the Senate and house of re-
representatives.;
The relations of the United States
with other countries have continued
during the past twelve months upon
a basis of the usual good will and
friendly intercourse.
Arbitrations.
The year Just passed marks an i'm
portant general movement on the part
of the powers for broader arbitration.
In the recognition of the manifold
benefits to mankind in the extension
of the policy of the settlement OF in
ternational disputes by arbitration
rather than by war, and in response
TO a widespread demand for an ad-
vance in that direction on the part
of the people of the United States and
of Great Britain and of France, new
arbitration treaties We're negotiated
last spring with Great Britain and
France, the terms of which were de-
signed, as expressed in the preamble
OF these treaties, to extend the scope
and obligations of the policy of arbi-
tration adopted in our present treat
les with the United States, Great
Britain negotiated an importan mod
ification in its alliance with Japan,
and the French government also ex-
pedited the negotiations with signal
good will. The new treaties have
been submitted to the senate and are
awaiting it's advice and consent TO
their ratification. All the essentials
of these important treaties have long
been known, and it is my earnest
hope that they will receive prompt
and favorable action.
In further illustration of the prac-
teal and beneficent application of
the principle of arbitration and the
underlying broad spirit of concilia-
ton, ! am happy to advert to the
part of the United States in facilita-
ting amicable settlement of disputes
which menaced the peace between
Panama and Costa Rica and between
Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The recent political events in Mex
leo received attention from this gov
ernmeht because of the exceedingly
delicate and difficult situation Great
ed along our southern border and
the necessity for taking measures
properly to safeguard American in
terests The government of the Unit
ad Ctofo IN &C. eirn m N
per observance and enforcement of
the sorcalled neutrality statutes of
the federal government, issued direc-
lions to the appropriate Officers to ex-
ercise diligent and vigilant regard
for the requirements of such rules
and laws. Although a condition of
actual armed conflict existed, there
was no official recognition of bellig-
erancy involving the technical neu-
trality obligations of international
law.
On the 9Th of March last, in the
absence of the secretary of state, l
had personal interview with Mr..
Wilson. the ambassador of the United
States to Mexico, in which he report
ed to me that the conditions in Mex
leo were much more critical than the
press dispatches disclosed; that Pres
ident Diaz was on the volcano of pop
ular uprising; that the small out
breaks which had occurred We're only
symptomatic of the whole condition;
that a large per cent of the people
were in sympathy with the insurrec-
ton; that general explosion was
probable at any time, in which case
he feared that the 10000 or more
American residents in Mexico might
be assailed, and that the very large
American investments might be in
jured or destroyed.
Our relations with the republic of
Panama, peculiarly important, due to
mutual obligations and the vast in
terests created by the canal, have con-
tinued in the usual friendly manner,
and we have been glad to make ap-
propriate expression of our attitude
of sympathetic interest in the en-
deavors of our neighbor in undertake
ing the development Of the rich re-
sources of the country.
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