The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-04
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 and the tortures and suffering, "migh have been averted had the department o state, through approval of the loan con vention by the Senate. been permitted to carry out its now well developed policy"
 Help Republics to Help Themselves
 Tn Central America the aim has been to help such countries as Nicaragua and Honduras to help themselves,' says Presi- dent Taft.
 While they are the immediate bene- ficiaries. the profit to the United States is two-fod, he adds. The Monroe doc frine is more vital in the neighborhood of the Panama canal, and such countries should be relieved of the jeopardy of heavy foreign debts likely to provoke in- ternational complications.
 The financial rehabilitation of these countries by American bankers and the protection of their customs houses from being the prey of would-be dictators says the President would remove the menace of foreign creditors and revolutionary disorder. Furthermore the United States would profit largely in a business way through the development of the great nat ural resources of Central America.
 Commenting the successful results of
  laws to Mexico and other troubled coun- tries the President suggests that means be found in addition to prevent the pro- fessional revolutionists from making America ports "foci' for revolutionary intrigue. He reiterates his determination to adhere in the case of Mexico to the .'patient policy of non-intervention. stead fast recognition of constituted authority, and the exertion of every effort to pro tect American interests
 Other paragraphs of the message point to the increase of American domestic ex ports by s200, COG, 600 during the past year, making the greatest total ever known, S2.200, ,000.000: to the agricultural credit sys- tenn which he thoroughly indorsed, to the probable necessity of an amendment Of the fur-seal act to permit limiting killing of seals; to meeting of the arbitrators in Washington next year to adjust the pecuniary claims between Great Britain and America: to negotiations with Mexico for the distribution of the waters of the Colorado river in the imperial valley sec tion, and to the financial rehabilitation of Liberia.
 There is merely historical reference to the Chinese revolution; to the San Do- mingan troubles, the rebellion in Cuba and the Balkan war developments, in which it is said the United States is not in- volved.
 The message concludes with an earnest appeal to Congress to cooperate with the executive in its efforts to apply the old principles of diplomacy which have gov erned the country. the momentous new situations of today, when America finds itself at the threshold of her middle age as nation, .'too mature to continue in its foreign relations those temporary ex- pedients natural to a people to whom domestic affairs are the sole coneern.'
 The Message
 The message of the President was as follows:
 To the Senate and House of Represent
 tatives:
 The foreign relations of the United States actually and potentially affect the state of the union to a degree not widely realized 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- lations of the family of nations should be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen. The national prosper ity and power impose upon us duties which we can not 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 a very real factor in the industrial and commercial prosperity of the country With the development of our industries the foreign commerce 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 in- telligent grasp of present-day world con dltions and a clear view of the poten- tialities of the future, or are governed by a temporary and timid expedency or by narrow. views .befitting an infant na- ton, are questions in the alternative con- sideration of which must convince any thoughtful citizen that no department of national polity offers greater opportu- nity for promoting the interests of the whole people on the one hand, or greater chance on the other of permanent na- tional injury, 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 partisanship and wholly dissociated from differences as to domes- tic policy. In it's 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 whatever occupa- tion must cooperate in a spirit of high pdtrlOtlsm 10 promote that natlOnal sol 1darity which is indispensable to national efficiency and to the attainment 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 interests wherever it may have been denied and a stronger emphasis of the need of mutuality in com mercial and other relations have only served to strengthen our friendships with foreign countries by placing those friend