El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-05-04
DOLLAR DIP OMACY
THEME OF WILSON
Strong Talks on Peace Are
Made at the Baltimore
Congress.

Baltimore. Nd, May. 4-'Dollar Dr.
plomacy." the newly coined phrase ap-
piled to the expansion of American
business interests through the efforts
of the state department of the United
States. means the substitution of dol
lars for bullets; the creation Of pros
perity which will be preferred to preda-
tory strife" and "a practical mode OF
pursuing the ideal of worlds peace"
according to the Interpretation of Hunt
ington Wilson, assistant secretary Of
state, as presented to the Third Ma
tional Peace congress today.
To-day international commerce is
everywhere an important department Of
diplomacy" said Mr.. Wilson. Insofar
as our diplomacy is commercially sue
cessful. we are proud of the fact. We
are not above being practical and COM
mercial.
The presidents aspiration to the
ideal of world peace was signalized in
the public utterances on December Is
Of his hope that the two great English
speaking peoples might set new and
higher standard of international self
control by broader treaty OF arbitra-
ton. As you know, this task is now
the subject of puerparlers between the
american ana bIiIiSH SONSIuAnSiAlS, anu
it is not improba bic that diplomacy may
gradually solve the extremely diff
cult problem of finding practicable
bases of negotiation.
THE everyday work Of peace through
a benevolent and candid diplomacy, as
well as the definite working out Of the
occasional marked advances in interna-
tional morality. must fall upon govern
ments and upon departments or gov
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tional relations
Every reasonable man is for peace,
just as every man would prefer to go
to heaven; but to secure the one or the
other requires something more than as
piration. The millennium will not
come for the wishing. International
peace must depend upon international
self-control and sense of justice, and,
the spirit of nation being but that of
collection of individuals, one comes
straight back TO the schoolhouse, the
factory. the farm, and the newspaper.
There must be self-controled and pa
triotic and enlightened citizenship if
there are to be peave-ioving, strong ma
lions and governments able to remain
at peace.
1T is almost to state a syllogism to
say that next TO national character the
greatest factor toward peace is true in
after diplomacy, the newspapers play
the most important part in bringing
about or retardlng 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 hor-
ribly 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 new spapers of most
countries.
Thinking Of Mr. Carnegie's munifi
cent gift, it occurs TO me that the es-
adjustment and subsidy of four or five
newspapers in Latin America and the
Far East, with means to give adequate
and respectable Geographic news ser
vice would be a splendid and proper
means to that international true un-
derstanding which must be at the basis
of peace.
I'm these days when we honor the