The Forrest City times., 1912-12-06
RELATIONS WITH
 OTHER NATIONS
Foreign Affairs Is Subject of
 Message From President.
IS FIRST ONE OF 4 SERIES
Merit System In Consular and Diplo- matic corps-Department of States Good Work for Latin
 American Republics.

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 Washington, Dec. 3.-President Taft submitted to congress today the first of several messages. It was devoted to our foreign relations and in part was as follows
 To the Senate and House of Repre- sentatiyes: The foreign relations of the United States actually and poten- ually affect the state of the Union to a degree not widely realized and hard iy surpassed by any other factor in i the welfare of the whole nation. The position of the United States in the moral. intellectual. and material rela- tons of she family of nations should l be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen. The national pros l perity and power impose upon us du- ties which we can not shirk if we are to be true to our ideals The tremen- dous growth of the export trade of the United States has already made that trade very real factor in the indus i trial and commercial prosperity of the country With the development of our i industries the foreign commerce of i the United States must rapidly be- i come still more essential factor fin l Its economic welfare. Whether we have far-seeing and wise diplomacy and are uot recklessly plunged into unnecessary wars. and whether our for l eign policies are based upon an intel ligent grasp of present-day world con 1 ditions and a clear view of the poten- tialities of the future. or are governed 1 by temporary and timid expediency 1 or by narrow views beitting an in- l fant nation. are questions in the al- formative consideration of which must convince any thoughtful citizen that no department of national polity of. ] fers greater opportunity for promoting the interests of the whole people on the one hand or greater chance on the other of permanent national in- Jury. 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 partisan ship and wholly dissociated from diff i ferences as to domestic policy. In it's l foreign affairs the United States | front The intellectual. fina9cial and Industrial interests of the country and the publicist. the wage earner. the farmer, and citizen Of whatever occu- patton must cooperate in a spirit of high patriotism to promote that na- tional solidarity which is indispensable to national efficiency and to the at. 1 tainment of national ideals.
 The relations of the United States with all foreign powers remain upon sound basis of peace, harmony and friendship. A greater insistence upon justice to American citizens or inter. ests wherever it may have been de nied and a stronger emphasis of the need Of mutuality in commercial and other relations have only served to strengthen our friendships with for eisn countries by placing those friend ships upon firm foundation of reali- ties ss well as aspirations
 Reorganization of the State Depart
 nent
 Al the beginning of tho present ad- ministration the United States. having fully entered upon it's position as a world power. with the responsibilities thrust upon 1t by the results of the SpanishAmerican war. and already en- gagged in laying the groundwork ef 2 vast foreign trade upon which it should one day become more and moro dependent found itself without the machinery for giving thorough at teEtion to- and taking effective action
 
 vital to American interests in every country in the world
 The department of state was an archaic and inadequate machine lack ing most of the attributes of the for eign office of any great modern power. With an appropriation made upon my recommendation by the congress on August ,. 1909, the department of state was completely reorganized. There were created divisions of Latin. American affairs and of far eastern. near eastern. and western European affairs To these divisions were called from the foreign service diplomatic and consular officers possessing expe- rience and knowledge gained by act ual service in different parts of the world and thus familiar with political and commercial conditions in the re- gions concerned. The work was high ly specialized. The result is that where previously this government from time to time would emphasize in its foreign relations one CT another policy, now American interests in ev- cry quarter or the globe are being