Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-12-04
To the Senate and House of Repre-

States actually and potentially affect
the state of the Union to degree not
widely realized and hardly surpassed
by any other factor in the welfare OF
the whole Nation. The position OF
the United States In the moral, in
tellectual, and material relations of
the family of nations should be a
matter of vital interest to every pa
triotic citizen. The national prosper
ity and power impose upon us duties
which we can not shirk If we are to
be true to our ideals. The tremend-
GUS growth Of the export trade of
the United States has already made
that trade very real factor in the
Industrial and commercial prosperity
of the country. With the develop
ment of our industries the foreign
commerce of the United States must
rapidly become a still more essential
factor in its economic welfare. Wheth-
er we have a far-seeing and wise di-
plomacy and are not recllessly
plunged into unnecessary wars, and
whether our foreign policies are based
upon in intelligent grasp Of present
day world conditions and clear view
of the potentialities of the future, or
are governed by temporary and
tmid expediency or by narrow views
beflttng an infant nation, are ques-
tOns in the alternative consideration
of which must convince any thought
full citizen that no department of ma
tional polity offers greater opportun-
fly for promoting the interests Of the
whole people on the one hand, or
greater chance on the other of per-
manent INJURY 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 dlssociated from diff
ferences as to domestic policy. In its
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
high patriotism to promote that ma
tional solidarity which is indispens-
able to national efficiency and to the
attainment Of national ideals.
The relations of the United States
with all foreign powers remain upon
a sound basis of peace, harmony, and
friendship. A greater insistence upon
justice to American citizens or inter-
ests wherever it may have been de-
MED and a stronger emphasis Of the
need of mutuality in commercial and
other relations have only served to
strengthen our friendships with for
eign countries by placing those friend
ships upon a firm foundation Of real
1ties as well as aspirations.
Before briefly reviewing the more
important events of the last year in
our foreign relations, which it 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, l desire
TO touch upon some Of the essentials
to the safe management Of the foreign
relations of the United States and to
endeavor, also, to. define clearly GER
tain concrete policies which are the
logical modern corollaries of the un-
disputed and traditional fundamentals
of the foreign policy Of the United
States.
Reorganization Of the State Depart
ment.
AT the beginning of the present ad'
ministration the United States, having
tully entered upon its position as
world power, with the responsibilities
thrust upon it by the results Of the
Spanish-Aemrican War, and already
engaged in laying the groundwork O.
a vast foreign trade upon which i
should one day become more and more
dependent, found itself without thu
machinery for giving thorough atten
uon to, and taking effective actor
upon, mass Of intricate business
vital to American interests in ever!
country in the world.
The Department of State was al
archaic and inadequate machine lack
ing most Of the attributes Of the for
eIgn office of any great modern pow
eF' With an appropriation made upol
my recommendation by the Congress
on August 5, 1909, the Department o
state was completely reorganized
mere were created Divisions Of Latin
american Affairs and of Far Eastern
Near Eastern, and Western Europeal
Affairs. To these divisions were calle'