Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-12-05

puteS-Intere6ts of Onlteo states
 In the Near and Far East.
 Washington, Dec. 3.-President Taft submitted to congress today the first of several messages. It was devoted to our foreign relations and in part was as follows:
 To the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives: The foreign relations of the United States actually and poten- tially affect the state of the Union to | degree not widely realized and hard ly surpassed by any other factor in theiwelfare of the whole nation. The position of the United States in the moral, intellectual, and material rela- lions of the family of nations should be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen. The national pros perity and power impose upon us du- ties which we can not shirk if we are to be true to our ideals. The tremen- aous growth of the export trade of the United States has already made that trade a very real factor in the indus trial and commercial prosperity of the country. With the development of our Industries the foreign commerce of the United States must rapidly be- come a still more essential factor in Its economic welfare. Whether we have a far-seeing and wise diplomacy and are not recklessly plunged into unnecessary wars, and whether our for s!gn policies are based upon an intel ligent grasp of present-day world con- ditions and a clear view of the poten- tiahties of the future, or are governed by temporary and timid expediency or by narrow views befltting an in- tant nation, are questions in the al- formative consideration of which must convince any thoughtful citizen that 10 department of national polity of ters greater opportunity for promoting the interests of the whole people on the one hand, or greater chance on the other of permanent national in- Jury, 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 dissociated from diff terences 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 earner, the farmer, and citizen of whateve. occu- patton must cooperate in a spirit of high patriotism to promote that na, aonal solidarity which is indispensable to national efficiency and to the at tainment 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- nied and a stronger emphasis of the need of mutuality in commercial and other relations have only served to strengthen our friendships with for e.gn countries by placing those friend ships upon a firm foundation of reali- ties as we'll as aspirations.
 Before briefly reviewing the more important events of the last year in our foreign relations, which 1t is my duty to do as charged with their con- duct and because diplomatic affairs are not of 8 nature to make 1t ap- propriate that the secretary of state make formal annual report, desire to touch upon some of the essentials to the safe management of the for eign relations of the United States and to endeavor, also, to define clearly certain concrete policies which are the logical modern corrollaries of the undisputed and traditional fundamen- tals 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 fully entered upon its position as a world power. with the responsibilities thrust upon 1t by the results of the Spanish-American war, and already en- gagged in laying the groundwork of vast foreign trade upon which it should one day become more and more dependent, found itself without the machinery for giving thorough at- tention to, and taking effective action upon. mass of intricate business vital to American interests in every country in the world.
 The department of state was an archaic and inadequate machine lack ing most of the attributes of the for eign office of any great modern power. With an appropriation made upon my recommendation by the congress on August 5, 1909. the department of state WAS completely reorganized.