The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-03-12
CONFESSION OF FAILURE.

law is a confession of failure In the
management Of our foreign relations.
What other conclusion can be drawn
from his asking this voluntary sur
render of a right we have formally
claimed and a policy which his own par
ty has indorsed? What else is meant
by this sentence In his address?
1T shall not know how to deal with
other matters of even greater delicacy
and nearer consequence If you do not
grant it to me in ungrudging measure"
This is the language of man who Is
bewildered by the entanglements in
which he has involved himself.
The greatest of these entanglements
Is in Mexico. Mr.. Wilson's dictat1on
by whom and how that country shall
be governed without adopting the only
practicable means of enforcing his de-
crees has aggravated and prolonged a
condition of anarchy through which
the interests of every other nation
suffer. Yet he asks those nations to
his policy and as an inducement to
them to be patient he proposes that
we abandon the position we have taken
on canal tolls and that his party rip
one of the planks out of its platform.
He has served notice that the United
States will refuse recognition to Ameri-
to 1rx,
the only means by which many Ameri
can republics ever change rulers and
has announced his opposition to grant
ing concessions to foreigners He has
put this policy in effect by preventing
Colombia from granting a concession
to British syndicate.
His devotion to the state rights has
permitted California to wound the sus-
capabilities Of japan with the alien land
law and he has, reached a deadlock
in negotiations for an amicable settle
ment
He inherited from his predecessor
strained relations with Russia, due to
the abrogation Of the commercial treaty.
Wise policy dictated that a skilled dip
lomat should be sent to negotiate a new
treaty, but after long delay he attempt
ed to send Mr.. Pindell, editor of a
newspaper in q third-rate city, with
an understanding that Mr.. Pindell was
too perform none Of the duties of his
office, q condition which Russia would
naturally resent as slight. Nothing
appears to have been done toward max
ing a treaty, which is necessary to the
smooth working of commercial relations
with Russia.
He has made a treaty with Mica
ragua, which has intensely irritated the
other Central American states. be-
cause 1t ignores rights they claim and
places an obstacle in the way of the
federation to which they look forward.
His Secretary of State, inexperienced
himself In making one-s sided peace trea-
ties with minor nations, with which
we have no controversies of consequence
while he should have been occupied In
removing causes Of discord from our
relations with the great powers.
Congress has contributed it's share
to the number Of our foreign troubles.
It included in the administrative Sec
ton of the Underwood tariff law pro-
visions which require inquisition into
the business affairs of European mer-
chants. France and Germany have been
antagonized by this law. The Senate
has passed q bill abrogating treaties
with sixteen nations in regard to ship
ping and creating regulations against
which the shipowners of the world are
up in arms. The Senate proposes thai
the United States legislate alone on 9
subject with which we. as one of the
smallest shipowning nations. have re-
latively small concern and which i
properly a subject for international q.
greement. The House has passed 6
law for the restriction Of immigration
which contains provisions extremely Of
fensive to the nations whence immi
grants come, and Italy has already pro-
tested.
While we have thus created stat,
Of feeling towards us which may caus,
an otherwise slight quarrel to becom,
acute and while we have been provokin,
disputes which will need the highes
diplomatic skill to adjust, our mex
perienced Secretary of State has dis
missed most of the trained men from
the diplomatic service and filled thei
places with men as green" in the bust
ness as himself. He has alienated thu
one man In his department, Mr.. Moore
who is equipped to steer it on a SAT-
course; has ignored that mans advice
and has been deprived of his aid.
Having sat tho uorld against MI,