Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-12-05


tend all proper support to every leglti-
mate and beneficial American enter
| prise abroad. How great have been
the results of this diplomacy, coupled
with The maximum and minimum pro-
vision of the tariff law, will be seen
| by some consideration of the wonder
full increase in the export trade Of the
United States Because modern di-
plomacy is commercial there has been
a disposition in some quarters to at
tribute to it none but materialistic
aims. How strikingly erroneous is
such an impression may be seen from
a study OF the results by which the
diplomacy of the United States can be
( judged.
! Successful Efforts In Promotion Of
Peace.
| In the field of work toward the ideals
! of peace this government negotiated
! but to my regret was unable to con-
summate. two arbitration treaties
| which set the highest mark of the
aspiration of nations toward the sub
si.ution of arbitration and reason for
war in the settlement of international
| disputes. Through the efforts of
American diplomacy several wars
have been prevented or ended. l re-
fer to the successful tripartite media
ton of the Argentine Republic, Bra
zil and the United States between
Peru and Ecuador, the bringing of the
boundary dispute between Panama
and Costa Rica to peaceful arbitra-
ton; the staying of warlike prepara-
tions when Haiti and the Dominican
Republic We're on the verge of hostil-
| tiles; the stopping of war in Nicara-
qua: the hating Of internecine strife
in Honduras.
The government of the United
States was thanked for its influence
toward the restoration of amicable re-
lations between the Argentine Republic
and Bolivia. The diplomacy of the
| United States is active in seeking to
assuage the remaining ill feeling be-
tween this country and the republic of
Colombia In the recent civil war in
| China the United States successfully
| joined with the other interested powers
in urging an early cessation of hostili-
ties. An agreement has been reached
| between the governments of Chile and
Peru whereby the celebrated Tacna-
africa dispute, which has so long en-
Uttered International relations OH the
west coast of South America, has at
last been adjusted. Simultaneously
came the news that the boundary dis
| pute between Peru and Ecuador had
entered upon stage of amicable set
tlement.
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
! financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the result
of giving new life and practical appli-
cation to the open door policy. The
| consistent purpose of the present ad-
ministratiOn has been to encourage the
use Of American capital in the develop.
ment of China by the promotion of
those essential reforms to which China
is pledged by treaties with the United
States and other powers.
The hypothecation to foreiY IN bankers
In connection with certain industrial,
enterprises, such as the Hukuang rail.
ways, Of the national revenues upon
which these reforms depended, led the
department Of state early in the admin.
zens participation in such enterprises,
In order that the United States might
have equal rights and an equal voice in
all questions pertaining to the DISPOSE.
ton Of the public revenues concerned.
The same policy Of promoting inter-
national accord among the powers hav-
ing similar treaty rights as ourselves in
the matters of reform, which could not
be put into practical effect without the
common consent of all, was likewise
| adopted in the case Of the loan desired
by China for the reform Of its cur
rency. The principle Of international
cooperation in matters OF common in
terest upon which our policy had al
ready been based in all of the above in
| stances has admittedly been great
factor in that concert of the powers
which has been so happily conspicuous
during the perilous period of transition
through which the great Chinese nation
has been passing.
Central America Needs Our Help In
Debt Adjustment.
| In Central America the aim has been
to help such countries as Nicaragua
and Honduras to help themselves. They
are the immediate beneficiaries. The
national benefit to the United States is
twOfold. First. 1t Is obvious that the
Monroe doctrine is more vital in the
neighborhood of the Panama canal and
the zone Of the Caribbean than any
where else. There, too, the mainte-
nance of that doctrine falls most heav
lily upon the United States. 1t is there
fore essential that the countries within
that sphere shall be removed from the
, jeopardy involved by heavy foreign
debt and chaotic national finances and
from the ever present danger of inter-
national complications due to disorder
at home.
Hence the United States has been
glad to encourage and support Ameri-
can bankers who were willing to lend
a helping hand to the financial re-
Mobilization Of such countries because
this financial rehabilitation and the
protection of their custom houses from
being the prey Of would be dictators
would remove at one stroke the men-
ace of foreign creditors and the mer-
ace of revolutionary disorder.
l wish to call your especial attention
to the recent occurrences in Nicaragua,
for believe the terrible events re-
corded there during the revolution of
the past summertime useless loss Of
life, the devastation Of property. the
hombardment of defenSeless cities the