Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-12-06
its Success in Settling Central
American Troubles.
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE BETTER
Reorganization Has Done Much 20 In
crease It's iustment
OF the Sealing and Fisheries Dis
putes-lnterests Of United States
Ca the Near and Far East.

submitted to congress today the first
OF several messages. 1t was devoted
90 our foreign relations and in part
was as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives: The foreign relations of
the United States actually and poten-
TALLY affect the state of the Union to
degree not widely realized and hard
Ey surpassed by any other factor in
the welfare OF the whole nation. The
position of the United States In the
oral, intellectual, and material rela-
rs of the family of nations should
matter of vital interest to every
lotto citizen The national pros
ty and power impose upon us du-
which we can not shirk il we are
Q true to our ideals. The tremen-
growth of the export trade of the
tied States has already made that
trial and commercial prosperity of the
country. With the development of our
industries the foreign commerce of
the United States must rapidly be-
come a still more essential factor in
Its economic welfare. Whether we
have a. far-seeing and wise diplomacy
and are not recklessly plunged into
unnecessary wars, and whether our for
efgn policies are based upon an intel
ligent grasp of present-day world con-
dltions and clear view of the poten-
.tiaiities of the future, or are governed
by a temporary and timid expediency
or by narrow views BETTING an in
FAINT nation, are questions in the al
Tentative consideration of which must
convince any thoughtful citizen that
no department of national polity Of
fers greater opportunity for promoting
the interests of the whole people on
the one hand, or greater chance on
the other of permanent national in
Jury, than that which deals with the
foreign relations of the United States.
The fundamental foreign policies of
the United States should be- raised
high above the conflict of partisan
ship and wholly ASSOCIATED from diff
ferences as to domestic policy In it's
foreign affairs the United States
should present to the world a united
front. The intellectual, financial and
Industrial interests of the country and
the publicist, the wage Garner, the
farmer, and citizen of whatever occu-
patton must cooperate in a spirit of
tionai solidarity which is Indispensable
TO national efficiency and to the at
tainment OF national ideals.
The relations of the United States
with all foreign powers remain upon
q sound basis of peace, harmony and
friendship. A greater insistence upon
justice to American citizens or inter
ests wherever 1t may have been de-
MED and q stronger emphasis OF the
need of mutually in commercial and
other relations have only served to
strengthen our friendships with for
eign countries by placing those friend
ships upon firm foundation of reali-
ties as well as aspirations.
Before briefly reviewing the more
important events of the last year in
cur foreign relations, which 1t Is my
duty to do as charged with their con-
duct and because diplomatic affairs
are not OF a nature to make 1t ap-
propriate that the secretary of state
make formal annual report, desire
to touch upon some of the essentials
to the safe management Of the for
eign relations of the United States
and to endeavor, also, to define clearly
certain concrete policies which are
the logical modern corrollaries of the
Undisputed and traditional fundamen-
tails of the foreign policy Of the
United States
Reorganization Of the State Depart
ment.
At the beginning of the present adj
ministration the United States, having
fully entered upon it's position as a
world power, with the responsibilities
thrust upon it by the results of the
Spanish-American war, and already en-
gagged In laying the groundwork of a
vast foreign trade upon which it
should one day become more and
more dependent, found itself without
the machinery for giving thorough at
8ention to. and taking effective action
upon. mass OF intricate business
vital to American interests In every
country In the world
The department of state was an
archaic and inadequate machine lack
Ing most OF the attributes OF the for
eign Office Of any great modern power.
With an appropriation made upon my
recommendation by the congress on
August s. 1909, the department OF
state was completely reorganized.