Connecticut western news., 1912-12-05

In message sent to congress Presi-
 dent Taft calls upon the national leeis
 lators and the entire country to take a
 more modern, liberal view of the posi-
 ton of the United States among world powers and to grasp more fully the great changes that have taken place in the foreign relations of this govern ment. He foresees the need of broad CT American diplomacy than that of the past and appeals to the country to prepare itself for the larger part 1t is to play on the worlds stage
 The message is one of the most com plete expositions of the foreign policies or the United States that has appeared In any presidential document in recent years. The accomplishments of the Iaft administration in the field Of di. plomacy are reviewed at length, and the reasoning upon which the present policies are based is fully explained.
 The keynote of the administration foreign policy has been dollar diplo- macy or, as the president expresses Tt, an endeavor to make American di, plomacy respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse" and directed to the increase of American trade" Tn the light of this policy affairs in Cen tral America and the far east are de scribed fully. #e
 The senate, through its failure to ner- init the administration to lend financial aid to Nicaragua, is charged by the president with responsibility for the disastrous revolution in Nicaragua last summer
 President Taft urges, as did Secre- tary of State Knox last winter. that teglsiat ton be enacted to enable the ad- ministration' to meet fully the varying degrees of discriminatory treatment which American commerce still encoun- ters abroad
 The Panama canal controversy with Great Britain and the negotiations with Russia in regard to new treaty are not mentioned in the message.
 Referring to the tariff, the president says in part:
 Il have regarded it as my duty in for mer messages to the congress to urge the revision of the tariff upon princi pies of protection. It was my iudy ment that the customs duties ought to be revised downward, but that the re- auction ought not to be below a rate which would represent the difference Ill the cost of production between the article in question at home and abroad. and for this and other reasons I vetoed Several oh me in the last session of this congress, NOW that new congress has been elected on platform of a tariff for revenue only rather than a protective tariff and is to revise the tariff on that basis 1t is needless for me to occupy the time of this congress with argu, ments or recommendations in favor of a protective tariff
 Commenting the successful results of the application of the new neutrality laws to Mexico and other troubled countries, he suggests that means be 1ound ln addition to prevent the pro- ress1onal revOlutionists from making American ports ''foci'' for revolutionary intrigue. He reiterates his determina- ton to adhere in the case of Mexico to the patient policy of nonintervention. steadfast recognition of constituted au- tnorlty and the exertion of every effort 70 protect American interests"
 Other paragraphs of the message point to the increase of American do mestic exports by $2OOOOOOO during the past year, making the greatest to- tai ever known, 2OOOOO,OOO, and to the agricultural credit system, which he thoroughly indorses. There is mere ay historical reference to the Chinese revolution, the Santo Domingan trou- bles, the rebellion in Cuba and the Balkan war developments, in which, it Is said the United States is not in- }Clyed,