The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-12-05
Successful Efforts In Promotion or

SucCeSSfui EHoTlS IN PromoIIon 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 reason
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 tripartite medi-
alton of the Argentine republic, Bra
I'll, and the United States between
Peru and Ecuador; che bringing of the
and Costa RIGA to peaceful arbitra-
ton; the staying of warlike prepare
tons when Hayti and the Dominican
republic were on the verge of HOSTILE
ties; the stopping of war in Nicarag-
va; the hating of internecine strife
in Honduras. The government of the
United States was thanked for its in
fluence 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-
satfon of hostilities. An agreement
has been reached between the govern
ments Of Chile and Peru whereby the
celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute, which
has so long embittered 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 a 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
fiuence 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
hoe q
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
ang railways, of the national reven-
ues upon which these reforms depend
ed, led the department of state early
in the administration to demand for
American citizens participation in
such enterprises, in order that 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 promoting 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 it's
currency. The principle of interna-
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 SO happily
| conspicuous during the perilous period
of transition through which the great
Chinese nation has been pas g.
Central America Needs Our 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
| 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. It 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
plications due to disorder at home.
Hence the United States has been
glad to encourage and support Amer
lean bankers who were willing to lsnd
helping hand to the financial re-
Mobilization Of such coutries because
this financial rehabilitation and the
protection Of their custom houses from
being the prey Of would-be dictators
would remove at one stroke the mem
ace Of foreign creditors and the men
ance Of revolutionary disorder.
| The second advantage to the Unit
ed States is one affecting chiefly all
the southern and gulf ports and the
business and industry of the south.
] The rennhIica of Central Amarica and