Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-30
Policies
Highly PRAISED
Secretary Knox Emphasizes
Idea|iStfC Phases Of PfeSi.
DENIS Diplomacy
Put Aside Political Advan.
taQe That Would Have FOL-
lowed Intervention

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3O.-A politi.
cal statement by Secretary Knox, set
ting out reasons why President Taft
should be reelected, was made public
here. Mr.. Knox was with the
president in New England, and it is
understood his statement was pre-.
pared before leaving Washington.
The secretary of the department of
state applauded the presidents for
eign policy, laying especial stress on
the maximum and minimum" feature
Of the tariff program and declared
that lin the field of striving for
world peace President Taft's name
must be written very high" He re-
ferred especially to the arbitration
treaties negotiated with Great Brit
ain and France and to the admins.
tration's interference to prevent war
and bloodshed in Central America.
These more idealistic phases of
our diplomacy" said Secretary Knox,
oAOulOy 1 Cllllny 1llohC COpCNlul dppCdl
The materialistic appeal to all our in.
dustries and producers of every sort
who share in the prosperity of the
country is too evident further to dwell
upon"
In extolling the foreign policy of
the administration, Mr.. Knox dwelt
on the very real relation that, he
said, existed between such a policy
and the prosperity Of the American
wage Garner.
Secretary Knox reviews at some
length the achievements of the state
department in the interest of Ameri-
a commerce.
American financial houses have en-
tered the South and Central American
field, and the administration has
sought to coordinate it's national pol
icy with its commercial diplomacy to
the end not only that American trade
shall be extended, but that peace and
prosperity shall be brought to those
of the sister republics that are in
domestic difficulties.
"For more than two years Mexico
has been the scene of revolution and
disorder, imposing a severe strain at
times upon good relations between the
two countries. The pressure for in.
%tervention has been great. Temporal
ry political advantage might have
been won during the present cam.
paign by a more spectacular attitude
toward the Mexican situation, but
the president has with answering
determination set his face against
anything smacking of utilizing our
foreign policy in a domestic campaign.
THE United States has demonstrate
ed it's friendship for China and won
the regard of the people of that vast
nation. No man is more keenly alive
than President Taft to the RESPONSE.
bilities and rights of our position
among the nations with interests in
the far east.
I'm the sphere of practical peace
during President Taft's ad-
ministration the influence of this gov.
eminent has actually prevented or
stopped three or four wars to say
nothing of the benign influence of
dollar diplomacy as expressed in the
and Honduras conventions.
These conventions unfortunately met
much the same opposition as the great
arbitration treaties, and they remain
Enacted upon. One result has been
the recent bloody warfare in Nicara.
qua, which the influence Of the Unit.
ed States has happily now been able
to bring to close.
These more idealistic phases of
our diplomacy should, / think, make
especial appeal. The m~aterialistic ap-
peal to all our industries and produc.
ers Of every sort who share In the
prosperity Of the country is too EVIL
dent further to dwell upon"
Palermo. Italy, produces large guam,
titles Of outfits for brides, principally
In muslin. The girls who do the work
get from twelve to twenty-five cents
and the Sktlle6 workers from thirty u