Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-12-05


 to the increase of American trade up on the automatic principle that the government of the United States shall extend all proper support to every legitimate and beneficial American enterprise abroad How great have been the results o1 this diplomacy, coupled with the max imum and minimum provision of the tariff law, will be seen by some con sideration of the wonderful increase fin the export trade of the United States. Because modern diplomacy is commercial, there has been a disposi ton In some quarters to attribute to it none but materialistic aims. How strikingly erroneous is such an i'm pression may be seen from study of the results by which the diplomacy of the United States can be Judged. Successful Efforts In Promotion of
 Peace.
 In the field of work toward the ideals of peace this government ne gotiated, but to my regret was unable to consummate, two arbitration tre9- ties which set the highest mark of the aspiration of nations toward the substitution of arbitration and reaso- for war in the settlement of interna- tional disputes. Through the efforts of American diplomacy several wars have been prevented or ended. I re- fer to the successful tripartite medi- ation of the Argentine republic, Bra gil, and the United States between Peru and Ecuador; the bringing of the boundary dispute between Panama and Costa Rica to peaceful arbitra- ton; the staying of warlike prepara- tions when Hayti and the Dominican republic were on tue verge of hostili- ties; the stopping of war in Nicarag- ua; the halting of internecine strife in Honduras. The government of the United States was thanked for its in fuence toward the restoration of annie able relations between the Argentine republic and Bolivia. The diplomacy of the United States is active in seek ing to assuage the remaining ill-feel- ing between this country and the Re- public of Colombia. In the recent-C Civ il war in China the United States suc- cessfully joined with the other inter- ested powers in urging an early ces- sation of hostilities. An agreement has been reached between the govern ments of Chile and Peru whereby the celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute, which has so long embittered international relations on the west coast of South America, has at last been adjusted. Simultaneously came the news that the boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador had entered upon stage of amicable settlement. The position of the United States in reference to he Tacna-Arica dispute between Chile and Peru has been one of non- intervention, but one of friendly in- fuence and pacific counsel throughout ohe period during which the dispute in question has been the subject of of views between this government and the two governments concerned. In the gen. eral easing of international tension on the west coast of South America the tripartite mediation, to which have referred, has been a most potent and beneflcent factor
 China,
 In China the policy of encouraging financial investment to enable that to help itself has had the re- suit of giving new life and practical to the open-door policy. The consistent purpose of the present administration has been to encourage the use of American capital in the of China by the promo tion of those essential reforms to which China is pledged by treaties CTS. The hypothecation to foreign bankers in connection with certain in- dustrial enterprises, such as the Huku- ang railways, of the national reven. ues upon which these reforms depend ed, led the department of state early in the administration to demand for American citizens participation in such enterprises, in order that the United States might have equal rights and an equal voice in all questions pertaining to the disposition of the public revenues concerned. The same policy of promoting international ac- cord among the powers having similar treaty rights as ourselves in the mat ters of reform, which could not be put into practical effect without the consent of all, was likewise in the case of the loan de- sired by China for the reform of it's currency. The principle of interna- tional cooperation in matters of com mon interest upon which our policy had already been based in all of the above instances has admittedly been a great factor in that concert of the powers which has been so happily during the perilous period of transition through which the great Chinese nation has been passing. Central America Needs Our Help in
 Debt Adjustment.
 In Central America the aim has been to help such countries as Mica ragua and Honduras to help them selves. They are the immediate bene- 1ci2ries The national benefit to the