Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-06
erning admission to and promotion IN
the diplomatic and consular services.
Nou.paetjsan Appointments.

president points to the fact. that three
OF the present ambassadors are mold
overs; that Of the ten he mas appoint
ed, five were by promotion from the
rank OF minister; that of the thirty
ministers appointed, eleven were pro-
motions; and that In the consular ser
vice no less than 55 per cent of the
consuls appointed by him were from
the southern states.
1.-The diplomacy OF the present ad-
ministration has sought to respond to
modern ideas of commercial inter.
course says President Taft. This
policy has been characterized as substi-
tuting dollars for bullets. 1t is one
that appeals alike to idealistlc human
itarian sentiments, to. the dictates OF
sound policy and strategy, and to leei'-
innate commercial aims"
The president adds that because
modern diplomacy is commercial
there has been a disposition in some
quarters to attribute to 1t none but
materialistic aims"
"How strikingly erroneous is such
an impression may be seen from a
study of the results by which the
diplomacy OF the United States can be
Judged" says the president.
Result Of Diplomacy.
He mentions the arbitration treaties
with France and Great Britain, which
failed of confirmation in the senate;
the successful t%ripartite mediation of
the Argentine Republic, E.raZil and the
United States, between Peru and Ec-
uador; the arbitration of the Panama.
Costa Rica boundary dispute; the in.
t%ervention between Haiti and the Do
minican Republic on the verge of war,
the suppression of the Nicaraguan
War, the hating of ~internecine strife
in Honduras, the adjustment of the
celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute be-
tween Peru and Chile, and the adjust
ment Of the Observation-Disclosures
boundary issue.
international Tension Eased.
In consequence of these things, says
the president, there abs been a genera
easing of International tension on the
west coast OF South America. He also
adds that the diplomacy OF the United
States is active in seeking to assuage
the remaining i'll feeling between this
country and Columbia.
Taking up some of the details of the
years diplomatic work, the president
refers with expressions of pride to
China, where, "the policy of encourag'
ing 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 has been to
encourage the use of American capital
in China, says the president, to pro
mote the reforms to which that u
try is pledged by treaty with the Unit
ed States and other powers. There
has been a vigorous assertion, also, he
says, Of the equal right Of the United
States to a voice in all questions per.
tanning to Chinese loans and develop
ments. 4.
Could Have Prevented Terrible Events
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 avert
ed had the Department of State. thru
approval of the loan convention of the
senate, been permitted to carry out
it's now we'll developed policy"
"In Central America the aim has
been to help such countries as Near
aqua and Honduras to help themselv-
es," says President Iart.
While they are the Immediate bene.
flciaries, the profit to the United State
is two.fold, he adds. The Monroe Doc
trine is more vital in the neighbor-
hood of the Panama Canal, and such
countries should be relieved of the
jeopardy of heavy foreign debts likely
to provoke international compiled
tons. ....s a..
The financial rehabilitation of these
development Of the great natural re-
countries by American, bankers and
the protection Of their customs houses
from being the prey of would-be die
/ tators, says the president, would re-
move the menace of foreign creditors
and revolutionary disorder. Further.
more the United States would profit
largely in a business way through the
| sources of Central America.
Commenting the successful results
| of the application of the new neutral
ity laws to Mexico and other troubled
countries the president suggests that
means be found in addition to prevent
the professional revolutionists from
making American ports food for re.
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 effortgto protect Am.
! erican interests"
Exports Increased.
Other paragraphs of the message
point to the increase of American do
mestic exports by 5000, 100000 during
the past year, making the greatest to
tai ever known, Z, 200,0o0,O 900; to the
agricultural credit system which he
thoroughly endorsed, to the probable
necessity Of an amendment of the ful
seal act to permit limiting killing Of
seals; to a meeting of the arbttrators
in Washington next year to adjust the
pecuniary claims between Great Brit
ain and America; TO negotiations with
Mexico for the distribution Of the wat
ers of the Colorado River in the I'm
perial Valley section; and to the finan
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