The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-03


war in the settlement of international
disputes. Through the efforts of
American diplomacy several wars
have been prevented or ended. 1 re-
fer to the successful tripartite media
ton of the Argentine Republic, Bra
I'll, and the United States between
Peru and Ecuador the bringing of the
boundary dispute between Panama
and Costa Rica to peaceful arbitra-
ton; the staying of warlike prepare
tions when Haiti and the Dominican
Republic were on the verge of hostil-
tiles; the stopping of war in Nicara-
qua; the hating of internecine strife
in Honduras.
The government Of the United
States was thanked for its influence
toward the restoration of amicable re-
lationS between the Argentine Republic
and Bolivia. The diplomacy Of the
United States is active in seeking to
assuage the remaining i'll feeling be-
tween this country and the republic of
Colombia. In the recent civil war in
China the United States successfully
joined with the other interested powers
in urging an early cessation of hostfli-
between the governments of Chile and
Peru whereby the celebrated Tacna-
africa dispute, which has so long en-
FILTERED international relations on the
west coast of South America, has at
last been adjusted. simultaneously
came the news that the boundary dis
pute between Peru and Ecuador had
entered upon a stage Of amicable set
Element
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the result
of giving new life and practical appli-
cation to the open door policy. The
consistent purpose of the present ad-
ministration has been to encourage the
use of American capital in the develop
ment of China by the promotion of
those essential reforms to which China
is pledged by treaties with the United
States and other powers.
The hypothecatiOn to foreign bankers
in connection with certain Industrial
enterprises, such rs the Hukuang rail-
ways, Of the national revenues upon
which these reforms depended, led the
department of state early in the admin
istration to demand for American cit-
zens participation in such enterprises
in order that the United States might
have equal rights and an equal voice in
all questions pertaining to the dispOsi
ton of the public revenues concerned
The same policy of promoting inter
national accord among the powers hav
ing similar treaty rights as ourselves in
he matters of reform, which could not
De put into practical effect without the
ommon consent of all, was likewise
adopted in the case of the loan desired
by China for the reform of it's cur
rency. The principle OF international
cooperation in matters OF common In
terest upon which our policy had al
ready been based in all of the above In
stances has admittedly been 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 passing.
Central America Needs Our Help In
Debt Adjustment.
In Central America the aim has been
to help such countries as Nicaragua
and Honduras to help themselves They
are the immediate beneficiaries. The
national benefit to the United States is
twofeId. First. 1t is obvious that the
Monroe doctrine. is more vital in the
neighborhood of the Panama canal and
the zone OF the Caribbean than any
where else There. too, the mainte-
nance of that doctrine falls most heav-
lily upon the United States. It is there
fnrs essential that the countries within