The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-03-27
PROTESTS, YET CLOSES.

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This is saying especially applicable
to the position of President Wilson as
announced towards the Latin-American
Republics of this hemisphere, and to.
wards China He is extremely solicitous
that good order shall prevail, and that
virtue shall animate the hearts of the
people in all those countries. But will
he do anything towards helping them
in the enforcement of order or the in
/ culcation Of virtue7 Not at all: those
and the United States will stand to one
side and sec how they get along. "Dol-
lar diplomacy my boy, is barbarous,
unethical, and rude. We mustn't have
any of it in our foreign affairs, and
while other countries court il, favor it.
and use it, thereby getting domination
over the world, the United States must
stand aloof in scoruful contempt OF all
such grossness
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quite figure in Chinese affairs in the
past, has obtained the good will Of
China, not through good words so much
as through good acts. In taking part
in the dollar diplomacy" as related
to China, this country obtained for it.
self solid footing in the diplomacy
which affects China, so as to be able to
speak a helpful word at need in re.
straint OF the aggressions of the five
other powers in the six-power agree.
mcnt. Now, however. that we with
draw, 1t is not a matter any moro that
we can bother ourselves with, except
to say to the struggling Chinese "Blcss
you, my infants, I will look with con
Germ, and often with pity. on YOUR
struggles, hopes, and failures, but any
time that you want q helping hand
mine Will be withdrawn, and YOU can
go to the other powers Of the world
for what YOU need. -
This whole matter of the Chinese
open door and the participation of the
United States with the six powers in
tho effort to help China was threshed
out by President Taft in his annual
message in December, 1909. The force.
full practical way in which be put the
case is a revelation in view of the weak
ness of the opposite view, and ought
to have been convincing TO President
wilson, as 1t was TO the people Of this
country. Hero is the way President
TAFT dealt with the question, and there
can he no practical answer TO his con.
elusive presentation:
BY the treaty of 1908 China has under.
taken the abolition OF likin. with mod
crate and proportionate raising of the
customs tariff along with currency re-
n, Iorin; Ihese reforms being of manifest
adEantase TO foreign commerce as we'll
as 10 the interests Of China. this govern
ment is endeavoring TO faclIitate these
measures and the needful acquiescence
OF the treaty powers When it appesred
that Chinese lilln revenues were To he
hypothecated to foreign bankers in con-
nectlon with great railway project it
was obvious that the government whose
nationals held this loan would have a
certain direct Interest In the question NJ
CARVING out by China of the reforms In
question, Because this railroad loan rep
resented practical and real application
OF the open door policy through co-opera-
non with CHINA by interested powers as
well a s because Of Its relat tions IN the
reforms referred TO above. the admins
IN
oe OF great national interest. Happily.
when II was a, matter OF broad poiicv
urgent that this opportunity should not
De lost, the indispensable instrumentalitv
Presented itself when A group OF Ameri-
can bankers Of International reputation
and great resources agreed at once 10
share in the loan OH precisely such terms
as this government should approve Tho
chief OF these terms was that American
railway material should he on an exact
equality with that OF other nationals join
ing IN the loan IN the placing OF orders
for this whole railroad system After
months Of negotiation the equal partici-
patton OF Americans seems at last as
sured. II is gratifying that Americans
VIII thus take their share in this extern
sion OF those great highways Of trade and
10 believe that such activities will give
real impetus 10 our commerce and will
prove practical corolIary to our hlstor-
ic policy In the Far East.
When we add to the above the ad
mirable summing up of the purpose OF
the late administration with respect TO
its dealings with China, conciselv aud
we'll put by the retiring Assistant Sec
retary of State. as follows, the case
is absolutely complete:
The repeated utterances OF the last ad-
ministration must have made il perfectly
clear that the motive and purpose OF the
policy now abandoned were first and
primarily the protection Of China's I'm
teSrity and sovereignty the uplift OF the
Chinese people, morally materially and
governmentally the development OF Chi.
ma resources aud the maintenance OF
our traditional policy Of the open door. ="
or equality OF opportunity for American
enterprise. Precisely because OF the uI-
innate possibility OF a measure OF for
eign control Of China's finances which
may be inferred from a study OF other
countries which have found themselves
in similar situation. Il was deemed i'm
perauve that there should be America n
participation I'm the liquidation OF China s
finances In order to make sure OF the
presence Of tine potent. friendly and dis
Interested influence OF the United States
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