The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-05-11
In the Expansion Of American
Business Interests Says
Wilson
AT PEACE CONGRESS
Assistant Secretary Of State
of the Nation Makes Stir
ring Address.


lar Diplomacy the newly coined
phrase applied to the expansion OF
American business interests through
the efforts of the State Department
Of the United States, means the
substitution of dollars for bullets;
the creation of prosperity which
will be preferred to predatory
strife and "a practical mode OF pur-
suing the ideal OF worlds peace, =
according to the Interpretation OF
Huntington Wilson, assistant secre-
tary of state, as presented to the
third National Peace Congress to-
day.
To-day international commerce IS
everywhere an important depart
ment OF diplomacy" said Mr.. Will
son. I'm so far as our diplomacy is
commercially successful. we are
proud OF the fact. We are not
above being practical and com
mercial.
'grhe Presidents aspiration to the
ideal OF world peace was signalized
in the public utterance December
is OF his hope that the two great
Bnglish-speaking peoples might set
asnew and higher standard OF inter
national self-control by broader
treay OF arbitration. AS you know,
this task is now the subject OF
pourparlers between the American
and British governments, anu It is
not improbable that diplomacy may
gradually solve the extremely diff
ficult problem of finding practicable
bases of negotiation.
The everyday work OF peace
through benevolent and candid
diplomacy, as well as the definite
working out OF the occasional
marked advances in international
morality, must fall upon govern
ments and upon departments OF
government expert in the facts of in
leIuh llOlldl TSldllOuS.
Every reasonable man is for
peace, just as every man would pre-
fer TO go to heaven; but to secure
the one or the other requires some
thing more than aspiration. The
millennium will not come for the
wishing. International peace must
depend upon international self-con-
troll and sense of justice, and, the
spirit of a nation being cut that of
collection OF individuals, one
comes stra gh back to the school
house, the factory, the farm, and
the newspaper. There must be self
controlled and patriotic and en-
lightened citizenship If there are to
be peace-loving, strong nations and
governments able to remain at
peace.
ut is almost to state a syllogism
to say that next to national charac-
ter the greatest factor toward peace
is true international understanding,
and that, after diplomacy, the news
papers play the most important part
in bringing about or retarding such
true understanding. In the case of
the United States, the true under
standing OF the American people
and of the true ideals and policies
OF their government is horribly
hamgered by the fact that in the
Far East, for example, and still
more in Latin America, almost ev-
erything bad and nothing good OF
us is reported in some section OF
the newspapers OF most countries.
Thinking of Mr.. Carnegie's
magnificent gift, it occurs to me
that the establishment and subsidy
OF four or five newspapers in Latin
America and the Far East, with
means 10 give adequate and re-
spectacle Geographic news service
would be 8 splendid and proper
means to that international true
UNDERSTANDING which must be at the
basis OF peace.
In these days when we honor the
soul and the mind more than the
body and when the world is regu.
lated by moral and intellectual
rather than physical forces, is i,
not still more strikingly important
20 speak only of the cause Of
peace) that the minds OF the people
should be fed and not poisoned In
reference to international affairs:
when one newspaper promul
gates an interesting story of i'm
pending war one can hardly blame
It's more conservative contemporar!
cor giving the story for what 1t +
worth. The harm is done by thos'
very few newspapers, The newspa
7ers printing stories for purely com
mercial purposes as a penny dread
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