The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-07
DOLLAR DIPLOMACY BRIBE,

| this government toward "dollar di.
plomacy" and an offer suggestively
made by Special Representative Lind in
his Mexican mission.
1t is we'll known that this administra
tion is opposed TO dollar diplomacy IN
all of its forms. 1t withdrew the
United States from the sextuple agree
ment with respect to financial as
sistance to China to put that Great Re
public upon n working financial basis,
and incidentally to protect the in
tegrity Of that Republic through the
wcll-kuown stand of tho United States
against encroachments upon the terri
torial integrity Of China, which stand
was in truth China 8 best guarantee iu
the agreement.
Again, President Wilson, in sort
Of pronunciamento to the Latin -Amerl-
can republics. stated that sordid money
considerations were to have no place in
the diplomacy that he was to conduct
with them. He announced the most
fervid friendship for them, jealous good
will and disinterested encouragement
that ought to have been immensely
helpful to them But he warned them
that they were not to look to the
United States for any dollar diplomacy.
They must help themselves, hoe their
own row, and what they got by way OF
dollars or commercial advantage they
were to seek out for themselves with
out any aid from our government.
In announcing the policy of this gov
ernment toward China and giving
reasons for our withdrawal from the
seItuple agreement, President Wilson
expressly renounced participation in the
loan "or the implication Of RESPONSE
bility on its own part. which 1t was
plainly told would be involved in the
request and he shrunk with horror
from the possible Hunhappy con
tingency' Of interference in the flnan
cial or even the political affairs Of
that great Oriental state, and he an
nounced clearly that the responsibility
Of our government implied in the en-
couragement of the loan thus secured
is plain enough, and "js obnoxious to
the principles upon which the govern
ment OF our people rests
Yet in spite Of this plain demonstra-
tion of the impropriety of this govern
ment having to do with the financial and
political affairs Of other countries,
Special Representative Lind, in one of
his notes to the Mexican government,
expressly said;
The President Of the United States Of
America further authorizes mo to say
that II the de facto government Of Mexi-
co at once acts favorab bly, upon the forego-
ing suggestions, then in that event the
President will express to American bank-
ers and their associates assurances that
the government OF the United States OF
America Will look with favor upon the eX-
tension OF an immedia te loan sufficient
In amount to meet the temporary require
ments OF the de facto government of
Mexico,
If it were not for the fact that Mr.,
tion that he is authorized by the Presi-
dent Of the United States to make it.,
one could hardly imagine it's being
made by the authority of the President
who withdrew this country from par
ticipation in the loan to China on the
grounds stated; and yet he must have
been authorized 30 to do by the
President, since he says so. But If 1t
is true that the President authorized
Mr.. Lind to make this statement, which
promises as to Mexico exactly what
President Wilson declared In the case
of China was "obnoxious to the prin-
ciples upon which the governme ent
of our people rests, what be-
comes of his reasoning and direct
argument against precisely that sort
of thing in the loan to China9 If the
loan to China would involve response
bilities that might require forcible in
reference in the financial and even the
political affairs Of China, by what
force Of reasoning could President Will
son convince himself that like con-
tlngency might not arise in Mexico,
in case Mexico accepted this tentative
offer, which Senior Gamboa very strong
ly limited in his well-reasoned com
municatioD was something in the ma
ture of a bribe7 IF, in fact, it was of
that nature, as it in fact appears to be,
then it is proposition, more dis
reputable than any dollar diplomacy
ever proposed by Republican ad-
ministration; and under the most IA
vorable construction that sort Of thing
Is sad commentary on the fall from
grace of an administration which
started in with such fervid detestation
of dollar diplomacy