Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-12-10

strategy. ard 70 legitimate cornmercfs,
aims. 1t is in effort frankly directed
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 of
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
in the export trade of the United
States. Because modern diplomacy is
commercial, there has been g. DISPOSE
ton. in some quarters to attribute to
it none but materialistic aims. How
strikingly erroneous is such an i'm
preston 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 trea-
ties which set the highest mark of
the aspiration of nations toward the
substitution of arbitration and reasoc
for war In the settlement OF interna-
tional disputes Through the efforts
of American diplomacy several wars
have been prevented or ended. | re-
fer to the successful tr5parcite medi-
alton of the Argentine republic, Bra
zil, and the United States between
Peru and Ecuador; the bringing of the
boundary dispute between Panama
aid Costa RIGA to peaceful arbitra-
ton; the staying of warlike prepare
tions when Hayti and the Dominican
republic were on the verge of hostili-
ties; the stopping of war in Nicarag-
ua; the hating of internecine strife
in Honduras The government of the
United States was thanked for its in
f1uence 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 Civ
ii war in China the United States sue
cessfully joined with the other inter
ested powers in urging an early ces-
sation of hostilities. An ag cement
has been reached between the govern
ments of Chile and Peru whereby the
celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute, which
has so long embittereo 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
the Tacna-Arica dispute between
Chile and Peru has been one of non
Intervention, but one of friendly in
fluence and pacific counsel throughout
the period during which the dispute
in question has been the subject of
interchange of views between this
government and the two governments
Immediately 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 most potent and
| beneficent factor.
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the re-
suit of giving new life and practical
application to the open-door policy.
The consistent purpose of the present
| administration has been to encourage
the use of American capital in the
| development Of China by the promo
| ton of those essential reforms to
which China is pledged by treaties
| with the United States and other pow,
| ers. 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
J in the administration to d. mand for
| American citizens participation in
such enterprises, in order chat 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 prom citing international &C
| cord among the powers having similar
| treaty rights as ourselves in the mat
| tiers of reform, which could not be
| put into practical effect without the
common consent of ALL was likewise
! adopted in the case of the loan de-
| sired by China for the reform of its
currency. The principle of iIterna-
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 SC happily
| conspicuous during the perilous period
| OF transition through which the great
Chinese nation has been passing
| Central America Needs OF. 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-
| ficiaries. The national benefit to the
| United States Is two-fold. First, it Is
| obvious that the Monroe doctrine is
more vital in the neighborhood OF the
Panama canal and the zone of the
| Caribbean than anywhere else. There,
/ too. the maintenance of that doctrine
| falls most heavily upon the United
States. 1t is therefore essential that
the countries within that sphere shall
| be removed from the jeopardy involv-
| ed by heavy foreign debt and chaotic
/ national finances and from the ever
| present danger Of international com
| plicaticns due to disorder at home.
/ Hence the United States has been
Glad TO encourage and support Amer