Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-04
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY
DOESN'T MEAN War
POLICY OF STATE DEPARTMENT
MEANS SUBSTITUTION OF
DOLLARS FOR BULLETS.
CREATION OF PROSPERITY,
NOT PREDATORY STRIFE
Peace Congress Told Of Plans OF Fed
sral Government to Promote Peace
and Expand Commerce Of Nation BY
Business Observation-Disclosures Viii
sons Address.

sons Address. ~
Baltimore, May 4-"Dollar Diplom-
acy." the newly coined phrase applied
to the expansion Of American business
interests thru the efforts Of the state de-
partment of the United States, means
the substitution Of dollars for bullets:
the creation Of a prosperity which will /
be preferred to predatory strife" and
"a practical mode Of pursuing the ideal
Of worlds peace" according to the in
assistant secretary Of state. as present
ed to the third national peace congress
today.
To-day international commerce is
everywhere an important department
Of diplomacy" said Mr.. Wilson. I'm
SO far as our diplomacy is commercial
ly successful, we are proud Of the fact.
We are not above being practical and
commercial
"The presidents aspiration to the
ideal Of world peace was signalized IN
the public utterance on Dec. 1S OF his
hope that the two great English-sp
ing peoples might set new and higher
standard Of international self-control
by broader treaty Of arbitration. AS
you know, this task IS now the subject
Of pourparlers between the American
and British governments, and 1t Is not
improbable that diplomacy may sradu-
ally solve the extremely difficult prob
lem of finding practicable bases OF ne
gotta ION.
THE everyday work Of peace thru
a benevolent and candid diplomacy,
as well as the definite working out OF
the occasional marked advances In IN
ternattonal morality, must fall upon
governments and upon departments OK
government export in the facts OF m
ternational relations.
Want Psaos, Want Heaven.
Every reasonable man Is for peacet
just as every man would prefer to go
to heaven; but to secure the one or
the other requires something more than
aspiration. The millennium will not
come for the Wishing. International
peace must depend upon international
self-control and sense of Justice and,
the spirit of a nation being but that
OF a collection Of individuals, one comes
|. factory, the farm, and the newspaper.
There must be self-controlled and pa
triotic and enlightened citizenship II
there are to be peace-loving, strong
nations and governments able to re-
mai nat peace.
1T is almost to state syllegism to
say that next to national character the
greatest factor toward peace Is true
international understanding. and that,
after diplomacy. the newspapers play
| the most important part In bring Ing
about or retarding such true under
standing In the case of the United
States, the true understanding of the
! American people and of the true ideals
and policies Of their government is
horribly hampered by the fact that. In
the far east, for example, and still more
| in Latin America, almost everything
bad and nothing good of us is reported
| in some section of the newspapers OF
most countries.
Would Subsidize Newspapers.
| thinking of Mr.. Carnegie's munif-
cent gift, 1t occurs to me that the es-
| tablishment and subsidy of four or five
newspapers in Latin America and
the far east, with means to give ad-
| euuate and respectable telegraphit
news service would be a splendid anc
| proper means to that international true
understanding which must be at the
basis of peace.
ssIn these days when we honor the
| soul and the mind more than the BODY
and when the world is regulated bS
moral and Intellectual rather than phys.
ical forces, is it not still more striking
1v important (to speak only or tn
! ca,,se Of peace) that the minds Of tn
neonle should be fed and not poisoned
in reference to International affairs?
"when one newspaper promulgate'
Ian interesting story Of impending wa
ona can hardly blame it's more con
servative contemporary for giving tn
story for what it may be worth. TIL
harm Is done by those very few news
naners" The newspapers printin!
stories for purely commercial. purpose
40 "penny dreadful" for the debauch
ary of the seeker after sensation
shonld be suppressed like the purveyo
of INJURIOUS drugs, said Mr.. Wilson.
"ro indiscrininately embarrass tn
d,n,omacv of the country thru frivolou
,,,;srenresentation or malicious attac
4. MT to assail any administration. bu
:. "a attack the country itself anon
a. tions of the world for somethin
sor which there is an ugly name, an
.o which there should be somethin
hevond the present statute. ! am hap
nv to say that have in mind isolate
! instances. only. and that believe n
American press. as whole, is alread
hepinning to respond to its patrioti
and moral obligations so increase
since the United states entered 20
a.. desttned position as q great wor1
Psaes and Armamsnts.
.orhe subjects Of peace and OF arma
J. iments are usually associnted-some
{ times In the sense that disarmament
! 1.-THE object Of peace; some y tim g even 8
: !iS disarnament were = means to peace
!. Former President Roosevelt tecentt
! pointed out that $oIbe prepared Tor Va
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