Arizona republican., 1917-11-14

Dut 10 every man ana woman In the world and are the principles worth | dying for said Dr. Edgar E. Robinson | in bringing his lecture on American Foreign Policy" to dramatic conclu- | sion. Dr. Robinson, who is delivering a series of lectures before the Joint County Teachers institute, will close
 the course this morning when he will
 discuss, World Politics and Position 1 of the United States"
 President Wilson's foreign policy
 from when he first took the oath of office until 1917 was covered yesterday,
 and lead step by step to the addres to be made today.
 There is no question but which can
 be dealt with finally by court of ar- | bitration if nations are reasonable. Do you know a better basis for peace than
 settlement by arbitration except peace forced with a sWord?" asked the | speaker.
 The history instructor at Stanford
 university announced that he had
 chosen what he termed dangerous topic to discuss and that he would make an effort to remove the danger in his introductory remarks. Tn searching for our foreign policy we are beset by interpretations of our past actions and by propaganda as to the future course of our policy. We are not concerned with interpretations of the past or propaganda of the fu- ture, What we need to consider are | the facts of the present By present I
 mean the past five years, the situation that has developed since the campaign of 1912.
 During that campaign" continued Dr. Robinson, Woodrow Wilson gave no indication as to what his foreign 1 policy was going to be. There was but one hint as to what course he wolud pursue in his declaration in favor of freedom to the people of the Philli- pines"
 The lecturer discussed the diplomatic outlook at the time touching upon the pending controversy with Engalnd ] relative to payment of tolls at the Panama canal, relations with Russia were strained, the dispute arising over the question of naturalization of Jews in the United States, not intricate like the problem to be solved with England but, nevertheless. one to meet his treat ment. These were issues and there were still others-the question raised by Columbia with reference to the at- titude of the United States in the Panama revolt of 1903. The fourth question in diplomatic relations Wilson had to deal with at this time was whether or not Huerta was to be rec ognized as the president of Mexico.
 Tn the meantime President Wilson was not unconscious of the fact that there was growing up in Latin America 8 distrust of America. They declared it was quite obvious that the govern ment was taking the road of imperial ism. I am not here to defend or at tack any president of the United States, but the action of the United States government in taking Panama gave rise to suspicion that we dominate the governments of weaker people. Particularly was this true in Central and South America. Wilson agreed that the action of our country looked like taking advantage of 8 weaker neighbor Activities of American bankers in placing foreign investment, in common with the pra 3tice in Eu- ropean states, had further given rise to suspicion.
 Tn a statement, in no sense a diplo- matfc document, issued after a week in office Wilson declared he wished to work for the cooperation of Latin America"
 
 the Latin Americans to understand that no particular group of men or in terests would handicap the government in it's foreign relations and this was demonstrated a week later by the far eastern problem.
 "The Morgan bankers asked the American administration to back up it's Six-Power loan to China, mind you did not ask Wilson to protect the loan but asked the administration to ask them to go in for it. Wilson replied that he would not ask American cap ital to go into China in a way that would place a mortgage on the people Lf China. China" he said, belongs to the people of China. Let them have the government they choose. Self government for people large and small that is one of the fundamental prin- ciples of his policy.
 Wilson's refusal to recognize the government of Huerta meant the de- clining to extend the hand of the Unit ed States to any who rose to power except by lawful process. Although the masses in the country urged him to intervene, he refused.
 Suppose we had intervened7 Every pubilcist in atin-America would have said, I told you so'
 Right in the midst of the Mexicon problem came the trouble with Eng land and Wilson induced congress to kill the clause in the Panama tolls act on the ground that it was in violation with our treaty with England. The president declared that we were too big nation not to admit wrong" said Dr. Robinson quoting Wilson, adding that the word of the United States was made good by living up to the treaty at our own expense.
 Governments are very like men, not always ready to settle at once for the victory of principle"
 In this connection he spoke of the land tenure act passed in California. He did not go into the legal or social aspects of the act of the legislature and how the chief executive dealt with this problem, first with California. without success, and directly through Japan. While he did not solve the problem, its solution was worked out on Wilson's principles. insisted the speaker.
 Accounting the acts of Wilson. Dr.