The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-05-04
In Address before National Peace
Congress Assistant Secretary
of State Flags Yellow
Journals
DIPLOMACY NEEDED FOR PEACE
Arbitration is Really Question of In
ternationaI Self Control Says
Speaker-Commends Stand
Taken by Taft.

macy" the newly coined phrase APP
plied 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 pre-
datory strife" and "a practical mode
of pursuing 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 today.
To-day international commerce Is
everywhere an important department
of diplomacy" said Mr.. Wilson. "In
so far as our diplomacy is commercial
" 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 December is
of his hope that the two great Eng
disappearing peoples might set new
and higher standard of international
bitration. AS you know. this task is
now the subject of consultations be-
tween the American and British Gov
ernments, and ii is not improbable
that diplomacy may gradually solve
the extremely difficult problem of find
ins practicable bases CT negotiation.
Must Exercise Self Control.
"The everyday work of peace through
n benevolent and candid diplomacy, as
well as the definite working out of the
occasional marked advances i'm inter
national morality must fall upon gov
ernments and upon departments of
government expert i'm the facts of in
ternational 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 aspiration. The millennium will
not come for the wishing. Intefna-
tonal peace must depend upon inter-
national self-control and sense of JUS
tice, and the spirit of a nation being
but that of a collection of individuals, |
one comes straight back to the school
house, the factory, the farm and the
newspaper There must be self-con- !
trolled and patriotic and enlightened
citizenship if there are to be peace |
loving. strong nations and govern
ments able to remain at peace.
Gives Newspapers Credit.
1T is almost to state a syllogism to
say that next to national character the
greatest factor toward peace Is true
International understandinC, and that,
after diplomacy, the newspapers play !
the most important part in bringing
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, I'm
the Far East, for example, and still
more in Latin America, almost every
thing bad and nothing good of us is /
reported in some section of the news |
papers Of most countries.
Thinking of Mr.. Carnegie's munifi-
ce gift, II occurs to me that the es-
adjustment and subsidy of four or
I'VE newspapers in Latin America and
the Far East, with means to give ade-
quate and respectable telegraphic news
service would be splendid and proper
means to that international true un-
derstanding which must be at the ba-
sis Of peace.
yellow Journals Harmful.
In these days when we honor the
soul and the mind more than the body
ana when the world is regulated by
moral and intellectual rather than
physical forces, is 1t not still more
strlkingly important Ito speak only of
the cause of peace) that the minds of
the people should be fed and not pois-
oned In reference to international af-
fairs?
When one newspaper promulgates
an interesting story of impending war
one can hardly blame its more con-
servative contemporary for giving the
story for what II may be worth. The
harm Is done by those very few news
papers" The newspapers printing stor-
les Tor purely commercial purposes is
penny dreadful for the debauchery
OF the seeker after sensation should
De suppressed like the purveyor of
injurious drugs. said Mr. Wilson.
Suppress False Stories.
TO indiscrimlnately embarrass the
diplomacy Of the country through friv-
olous misrepresentation or malicious
attack Is not to assail any adminis-
uation, but Is 10 attack the country
Hself among the nations of the world