Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-03

ITO the Senate and House of Representa-
tives:
THE foreign relations of the United
States actually and potentially affect the
state of the Union to degree not widely
Asalized and hardly surpassed by any
other factor in the welfare of the whole
nation. The position Of the United States
in the moral, intellectual and material re-
Iations of the family of nations should
be a matter of vital interest to every
patriotic citizen. The national prosperity
and power impose upon us duties which
we cannot shirk if we are to be true to
our ideals. The tremendous growth OF
the export trade Of the United States has
already made that trade very real fac
tor in the Industrial and commercial pros
perity of the country. With the develop
ment of our industries the foreign COM
merce of the United States must rapidly
become a still more essential factor in its
economic welfare. Whether we have a
farseeing and wise diplomacy and are not
recklessly plunged into unnecessary wars,
and whether our foreign policies are
based upon an intelligent grasp of pres
ent-day world conditions and a clear
v.cr of the potentialities of the future,
timid expediency or by narrow views be-
fitting an infant nation, are questions in
the alternative consideration Of which
must convince any thoughtful citizen that
no department of national polity offers
greater opportunity for promoting the
interests of the whole people on the one
hand or greater chance on the other OF
permanent national injury, than that
- hlCh 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 partisanShip and
wholly dissociated from differences as to
domestic policy. In it's foreign affairs the
United States should present TO the world
d united front. The intellectual, hnan-
cial and industr al interests of the coun-
Try and the puoicist. the wage Garner,
the farmer and citizen of whatever occu-
patton must cooperate in spirit of high
patriotism to promote that national soli-
darity which is Indispensable to national
efficiency and to the attainment or ma
t.onai ideals.
The relations of the United States with
al foreign powers remain upon a sound
basis of peace. harmony and friendship.
\ greater insistence upon justice to
American citizens or interests wherever
4 may have been denied and "a stronger
emphasis OF the need of mutuality in
commercial and other relations have only
served tO strengthen our friendships with
foreign countries by placing those friend
ships upon firm foundation of realities
well as aspirations.
Before briefly reviewing the more i'm
lortant events of the last year in our
foreign relations. which il is my duty to
do a charged with their conduct and
because diplomatic affairs are not of a
nature 10 make il appropriate that the
Secretary Of state make "A formal an
Hual report / desire To touch upon some
of the essentials TO the safe management
of the foreign relations of the United
states and 10 endeavOr. also. tn define
clearly certain concrete policies which
are the logical modem cOrOilaries of the
uudiSplIted and traditional fundamentals
~ the foreign policy of the United States
AZ The beginning of the present ad-
Iaiuistration the United States, having
fully entered upon
State Department its position as "a
world power. with
tleJst upon il by the result of the Span
iSh-Americsn war, and already engaged in
Iay}ug the groundwork of vast foreign
trade upon which it should one day be-
come more and more dependent, found
i III without tie machinery for giving
thorough attention To and taking effective