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


 ance of revolutionary disorder
 The second advantage to the Unit ed States is one affecting chiefly all the southern and gulf ports and the business and industry of the south The republics of Central America and the Caribbean possess great natural wealth. They need only measure of stability and the means of financial regeneration to enter upon an era ot peace and prosperity, bringing profit and happiness to themselves and at the same time creating conditions sure to lead to a fourishing in terchange of trade with this country
 wish to call your especial attention to the recent occurrences in Mica ragua, for believe the terrible events recorded there during the revolution of the past summer-the useless less of life, the devastation of property. the bombardment of defenseless cities, the killing and wounding of women and children, the torturing of non combatants to exact contributions. and the suffering of thousands Of hu. man beings-might have been avert ed had the department of state. through approval of the loan conven tion by the senate, been permitted to carry out it's now weil-developed policy of encouraging the extending of f. nancial aid to weak Central American states with the primary objects oi avoiding just such revolutions by as sisting those republics to rehabili- tate their finances, to establish their currency on stable basis, to iamove the custom houses from the danger of revolutions by arranging for their secure administration, and to estab fish reliable banks.
 During this last revolution in Mica ragua, the government of that repub- lie having admitted it's inability to protect American life and property against acts of sheer lawlessness on the part of the maicontents, and hay ing requested this government to as sume that office, it became necessary to land over 2,000 marines and bluejack cts in Nicaragua. Owing to their presence the constituted government of Nicaragua was free to devote it's attention wholly to it's internal trou bles, and was thus enabled to stamp out the rebellion in a short space of time. When the Red Cross supplies sent to Granada had been exhausted 5000 persons having been given food in one day upon the arrival of the American forces, cur men supplied other unfortunate, needy Nicaraguan from their own haversacks. l wish to congratulate the officers and men of the United States navy and marine corps who took part in re-establishing order in Nicaragua upon their splen- did conduct, and to record with sor row the death of seven American ma rines and bluejackets. Since the re-establishment of peace and order, elections have been held amid condi tions of quiet and tranquility. Nearly all the American marines have now been withdrawn. The country should soon be on the road to recovery. The only apparent danger now threatening Nicaragua arises from the shortage of funds. Although'American bankers have already rendered assistance. they may naturally be loath to ad- vance loan adequate to set the coun- try upon its feet without the support of some such convention as that of June, 1911, upon which the senate has not yet acted.
 The president alluded briefly to the enforcement of neutrality laws, tU Secretary KnoX's visit to Central America and to the unfortunate dis turbances In Mexico. Continuing, the message said:
 Agricultural Credits.
 A most important work, accom-. plished in the past year by the Ameri can diplomatic officers in Europe, is the investigation of the agricultural credit system in the European coun tries. Both as means to afford relief to the consumers of this country through a more thorough develop ment of agricultural resources and as means of more sufficiently maintain ing the agricultural population, the project to establish credit facilities for the farmers is concern of vital i'm portance to this nation. No evidence of prosperity among well-esta blished farmers should blind us to the fact that lack of capital is preventing a development of the nations agricul- tural resources and an adequate in crease of the land under cultivation; that agricultural production is fast falling behind the increase in popula- tion; and that, in fact, although these well-eeta blished farmers are main tained in increasing prosperity be- cause of the natural increase in poDu- lation, we are not developing the in- dustry of agriculture We are not breeding in proportionate numbers a race of independent and independence loving land owners, for a lack Of which no growth of cities can com pensate. Our farmers have been our mainstay in times of crisis, and in future it must still largely be upon their stability and common sense that this democracy must rely to conserve it's principles of lf-government.
 The need of capital which American