The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03

| application to the open-door policy"
| The consistent purpose has been to
! encourage the use of American capital
in China says the president, to pro-
mote the reforms to which that country
| is pledged by treaty with the United
| States and other powers. There has
! been vigorous assertion, also, he says.
of the equal right of the United State
| to a voice in all questions pertaining
| to Chinese loans and developments.
President Taft makes the direct
charge that the terrible events record
ed in Nicaragua recently, the useless
loss of life, the devastation of proper
ty, the bombardment of the principal
cities, the killings and the tortures and
suffering, might have been averted
had the department of state, through
approval of the loan convention by the
senate, been permitted to carry out
its now well developed policy"
In Central America the aim has been
to help such countries as Nicaragua
and Honduras to help themselves -
says President Taft.
While they are the immediate benefi-
c1ar1es, the profit to the United States
is two-fold, he adds. The Monroe Doc
tr1ne is more vital in the neighborhood
OF the Panama canal and such coun-
tries should be relieved of the jeopardy
of heavy foreign debts likely to pro-
woke international complications
The financial rehabilitation of these
countries by American bankers and the
protection of their customs houses from
being the prey of would-be dictators,
says the president, would remove the
menace of foreign creditors and revolu-
tionary disorder. Furthermore, the
United States would profit largely in n
business way through the development
of the great natural resources of Cen
trail America.
The New Neutrality Laws.
Commencing the successful results of
the application of the new neutrality
laws to Mexico and other troubled
countries, the president suggests that
means be found in addition to prevent
the professional revoIutionists from
making American ports 'foci' for
revolutionary intrigue. He reiterates
his determination to adhere in the
case of Mexico to the patient policy
of non-intervention, steadfast recogni-
ton of constituted authority, and the
exertion of every effort to protect
American interests
Other paragraphs of the message
point to the increase of American do
mestic exports by $200,0O0,000 during
the past year, making the greatest to-
tai ever known, $2,200,0U0, 1000; to
the agricultural credit system which |
he thoroughly endorsed; to the prob |
a BILE necessity of an amendment of the |
fur seal act to permit limiting killing of
seals; to a meeting of the arbitratorS |
IN washington next year 10 ADJUST
the pecuniary claims between Great !
Britain and America; to negotiations !
with Mexico for the distribution of
the waters of the Colorado river in |
the Imperial Valley section; and to
the financial rehabilitation of Liberia |
There is merely historical reference
to the Chinese revolution; to the San |
troubles, the rebellion in |
Cuba and the Balkan war develop
nents, in which it is said the United !
States is not involved.
The Message concludes with an ear
nest appeal to congress to cooperate
With the executive in its efforts to ap-
ply the old principles of diplomacy
which have governed the country, to
he momentous new situations of to-
lay, when America finds itself at the
threshold of her middle age as ma
ion; "too mature to continue in its
foreign relations those temporary ex-
oedients natural to a people to whom
domestic affairs are the sole concern