The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-03
success Of Dollar Diplomacy and
Appeal for Legislation to Make
II More Effective, is Grist
Of Message.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM
our Agricultural Interests Are Ham,
pered by Lack OF Capital and
Land Owning and Work.
ING Population.

United Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. The sue
cess of dollar diplomacy and appeal
for supplemental legislation, to make
ii more effective, was the gist OF
President Taft's message. on foreign
relations, the first Of series of mes
sages which together will take the
place of the customary annual mes
sage, read to congress today.
The president also dealt extensively
with the necessity of cooperation be-
tween the state department and con-
gress in protecting the finances OF
| South and Central American republics,
and preventing revolutions that en-
danger American capital and lives.
Discussing Investigations of foreign
| farm methods, the president declared
that lack of capital and sufficient
| land-working and land-owning popula-
| tion are seriously hampering the ne-
velopment Of our agricultural inter
| ests.
A solution of the problem, he said,
was to be found in the reports made
by our diplomatic representatives and
submitted to the congress of gov
ernors now meeting in Richmond, Va,
as to rural credit plans.
Reviewing legislation accomplished
and thwarted during his term. the
president advocated the immediate
passage Of the following measures:
Government owned legation build
ings IN all foreign countries.
Immediate laws designed to pro-
tect finances OF South and Central
American republics. In this connec-
ton, the president laid blame for the
recent Nicaraguan revolution, which
required American intervention and
resulted in the death OF seven Amer
| lean marines and sailors, on the sem
ate's failure to ratify the loan con-
vention.
Amendment OF the maximum and
minimum tariff plank to provide more
effective means of meeting discrin-
nation against American exports.
Further legislation to protect and
increase the seal herd at Pribilos
Islands, now protected for flve years,
Under the seal treaty between the
United States, Great Britain, and
Japan and Russ!s. effected July. 1911.
Passage of the anti-narcotic law
defeated by congress after he had ad
. yocated II in special message, along
! lines laid out by the internationa!
opium congress at the Hague. Re
viewing the failure Of congress Il
pass this law the president said j
was breach Of faith with other na
tons who participated in the Hague
conference.
Establishment OF merchant mar
me and proper credit extension K
Americans In foreign countries.
1.-THE presidents message appears
on page of this issue. Ed
Waterways Report.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.-Presiden
TAFT today sent the senate repor
OF the international waterways CON
mission with the recommendation tina
the commission be allowed to finish 1t
report upon the proposed dam at tn
outlet of Lake Erie and the boundar
dispute between the United state
and Canada before it goes out OF a'
istence and is succeeded BY the II
ternational Joint commission.
The commission, he said, had bee
unavoidably delayed in it work D
illness of Canadian engineers.
The board the president declared
should be given additional time ft
ascertain and to re-establish the mar
upon the ground and to delineate upo
modern charts the location of a po
ton of the international boundary b.
tween the United States and Canada
This work, the commission state
cannot be completed by 1913 but WI
require from a year to fifteen montf
more time beyond that date.
The work of the commission hs
been OF high order and has bee
prosecuted with diligence. Intern
tjonal courtesy as well as treaty OBJ
cations, require that the commissle
be allowed to complete its work.
recommend that the statement to
found in the estimate for its repo
during the second half OF the currei
fiscal year and for part of the ne
fiscal year, receive the favorable co
sidoration Of congress-
((.oatir,.ed on mage 2.)t