TAFT SENDS IN
MESSAGE ABOUT
FOREIGNAFFAIRS
President Informs Congress of
Our Relations With Other
Nations.
AMERICAN DIPLOMACY WINS
Its Success in Settling Central
American Troubles.
DIPLOMATIC SERVICE BETTER
Reorganization Has Done Much to In
crease Its Efficiency—Adjustment
of the Sealing and Fisheries Dis
putes—Interests of United States
In the Near and Far East.
Washington, Dec. 3.—President Taft
submitted to congress today the first
of several messages. It was devoted
to our foreign relations and in part
was as follows:
To the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives: The foreign relations of
the United States actually and poten
tially affect the state of the Union to
a degree not widely realized and hard
ly surpassed by any other factor in
the welfare of the whole nation. The
position of the United States in the
moral, intellectual, and material rela
tions of the family of nations should
be a matter of vital Interest to every
patriotic citizen. The national pros
perity and power impose upon us du
ties which we can not shirk if we are
to be true to our Ideals. The tremen
dous growth of the export trade of the
United States has already made that
trade a very real factor in the indus
trial and commercial prosperity of the
country. With the development of our
Industries the foreign commerce of
the United States must rapidly be
come a still more essential factor In
Us economic welfare. Whether we
have a far-seeing and wise diplomacy
< and art not recklessly plunged into
unnecesary wars, and whether our for
eign policies are based upon an intel
ligent grasp of present-day world con
ditions and a clear view of the poten
tialities of the future, or are governed
by a temporary and timid expediency
or by narrow views befitting an In
fant nation, are questions in the al
ternative consideration of which must
convince any thoughtful citizen that
no department of national polity of
fers greater opportunity for promoting
the interests of the whole people on
the one hand, or greater chance on
the other of permanent national in
jury, than that which deals with the
foreign relations of the United States.
The fundamental foreign policies of
the United States should be raised
high above the conflict of partisan
ship and wholly dissociated from dif
ferences as to domestic policy. In its
foreign affairs the United States
should present to the world a united
front. The intellectual, financial and
industrial interests of the country and
the publicist, the wage earner, the
farmer, and citizen of whatever occu
pation must co-operate in a spirit of
high patriotism to promote that na
tional solidarity which is indispensable
to national efficiency and to the at
tainment of national ideals.
The relations of the United States
with all foreign powers remain upon
a sound basis of peace, harmony and
friendship. A greater insistence upon
justice to American citizens or inter
ests wherever It may have been de
nied and a stronger emphasiB of the
need of mutuality in commercial and
other relations have only served to
strengthen our friendships with for
eign countries by placing those friend
ships upon a firm foundation of reali
ties as well as aspirations.
Before briefly reviewing the more
important events of the last year in
our foreign relations, which it is my
duty to do as charged with their con
duct and because diplomatic affairs
are not of a nature to make it ap
propriate that the secretary of state
make a formal annua! report, I desire
to touch upon some of the essentials
to the safe management of the for
eign relations of the United States
and to endeavor, also, to define clearly
certain concrete policies which are
the logical modern corrollaries of the
undisputed and traditional fundamen
tals of the foreign policy of the
United States.
Reorganization of the State Depart
ment.
At the beginning of the present ad
ministration the United States, having
fully entered upon its position as a
world power, with the responsibilities
“ thrust upon it by the results of the
Spanish-American war, and already en
gaged in laying the groundwork of a
vast foreign trade upon which it
should one day become more and
more dependent, found itself without
the machinery for giving thorough at
tention to, and taking effective action
uoon, a mass of intricate business
vital to American interests in every
country in the world.
The department of state was an
archaic and inadequate machine lack
ing most of the attributes of the for
eign office of any great modern power.
With an appropriation made upon my
recommendation by the congress on
August 5. 1909, the department of
state was completely reorganized.
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There were created divisions of Latin
Amerlcan affairs and of far eastern,
near eastern, and western European
affairs. To these divisions were called
from the foreign service diplomatic
and consular officers possessing expe
rience and knowledge gained by act
ual service in different parts of the
world and thus familiar with political
and commercial conditions in the re
gions concerned. The work was high
ly specialized. The result is that
where previously this government
from time to time would emphasize in
its foreign relations one of another
policy, now American interests in evv
ery quarter of the globe are being
cultivated with equal assiduity.
Merit System in Consular and Diplo
matic Corps.
Expert knowledge and professional
training must evidently be the essence
of this reorganization. Without a
trained foreign service there would
not be men available for the work In
the reorganized department of state.
President Cleveland has taken the
first step toward introducing the
merit system in the foreign service.
That had been followed by the appli
cation of the merit principle, with ex
cellent results, to the entire consular
branch. Almost nothing, however, had
been done in this direction with regard
to the diplomatic service. In this age
of commercial diplomacy it was evi
dently of the first importance to train
an adequate personnel in that branch
of the service. Therefore, on Novem
ber 26, 1909, by an executive order I
placed the diplomatic service up to
the grade of secretary of embassy, in
clusive, upon exactly the same strict
non-partisan basis of the merit sys
tem, rigid examination for appoint
ment and promotion only for effi
ciency, as had been maintained without
exception in the consular service.
Statistics as to Merit and Nonpartisan
Character of Appointments.
How faithful to the merit system
and how nonpartisan has been the con
duct of the diplomatic and consular
services in the last four years may be
judged from the following: Three
ambassadors now serving held their
present rank at the beginning of the
administration. Of the ten ambassa
dors whom I have appointed, five were
by promotion from the rank of min
ister. Nine ministers now serving
held their present rank at the begin
ning of the administration. Of the
thirty ministers whom I have appoint
ed, eleven were promoted from the
lower grades of the foreign service or
from the department of state. Of the
nineteen missions in Latin America,
where our relations are close and our
interest is great, fifteen chiefs of mis
sion are service men. three having
entered the service during this admin
istration. The thirty-seven secreta
ries of embassy or legation who have
received their initial appointments
after passing successfully the required
examination were chosen for ascer
tained fitness, without regard to po
litical affiliations. A dearth of candi
dates from southern and western
states has alone made it impossible
thus far completely to equalize all
the states’ representations in the for
eign service. In the effort to equalize
the representation of the various
states in the consular service I have
made sixteen of the twenty-nine new
appointments as consul which have
occurred during my administration
from the southern states. This is 55
per cent. Every other consular ap
pointment made, including the promo
tion of eleven young men from the
consular assistant and student Inter
preter corps, has been by promotion or
transfer, based solely upon efficiency
shown in the service.
In order to assure to the business
and other interests of the United
States a continuance of the resulting
benefits of this reform, I earnestly re
new my previous recommendations of
legislation making It permanent along
some such lines as those of the meas
ure now pending In congress.
Larger Provision for Embassies and
Legations and for Other Expenses
of Our Foreign Representa
tives Recommended.
In connection with legislation for
the amelioration of the foreign serv
ice, I wish to invite attention to the
advisability of placing the salary ap
propriations upon a better basais. I
believe that the best results would
be obtained by a moderate scale of
salaries, with adequate funds for the
expenses of proper representation,
based in each case upon the scale and
cost of living at each post, controlled
by a system of accounting, and un
der the general direction of the de
partment of state.
In line with the object which I have
sought of placing our foreign service
on a basis of permanency, I have at
various times advocated provision by
congress for the acquisition of govern
ment-owned buildings for the resi
dence and offices of our diplomatic of
ficers, so as to place them more near
ly on an equality with similar officers
of other nations and to do away with
the discrimination which otherwise
must necessarily be made, in some
cases. In favor of men having large
private fortunes. The act of congress
which I approved on February 17,1911,
was a right step in this direction.
The secretary of state has already
made the limited recommendations
permitted by the act for any one year,
and it Is my hope that the bill intro
duced in the house of representatives
to carry out these recommendations
will be favorably acted on by the con
gress during its present session.
Diplomancy a Handmaid of Commer
cial Intercourse and Peace.
The diplomancy of the present ad
ministration has sought to respond
to modern ideas of commercial inter
course. This policy has been char
acterized as substituting dollars for
bullets. It Is one that appeals alike
to idealistic humanitarian sentiments,
to the dictates of sound policy and
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strategy, and to legitimate commercial
aims. It 1b an effort frankly directed
to the increase of American trade up
on the axiomatic principle that
the government of the United
States shall extend all proper
support to every legitimate and
beneficial American enterprise abroad.
How great have been the results of
this diplomacy, coupled with the max
imum and minimum provision of the
tariff law, will be seen by some con
sideration of the wonderful increase
in the export trade of the United
States. Because modern diplomacy is
commercial, there has been a disposi
tion in some quarters to attribute to
it none but materialistic aims. How
strikingly erroneous is such an im
pression 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 ne
gotiated, but to my regret was unable
to consummate, two arbitration trea
ties which set the highest mark of
the aspiration of nations toward the
substitution of arbitration and reasoit
for war in the settlement of interna
tional disputes. Through the efforts
of American diplomacy several wars
have been prevented or ended. I re
fer to the successful tripartite medi
ation 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
tion; the staying of warlike prepara
tions when Hayti and the Dominican
republic were on the verge of hostili
ties; the stopping of a war in Nicarag
ua; the halting of internecine strife
in Honduras. The government of the
United States was thanked for its in
fluence toward the restoration of amic
able relations between the Argentine
republic and Bolivia. The diplomacy
of the United States is active in seek
ing to assuage the remaining ill-feel
ing between this country and the Re
public of Colombia. In the recent Civ
il war in China the United States suc
cessfully joined with the other inter
ested powers in urging an early ces
sation of hostilities. An ag: .-ement
has been reached between the govern
ments of Chile and Peru whereby the
celebrated Tacna-Arica dispute, w'hich
has so long embittered international
relations on the west coast of South
America, has at last been adjusted.
Simultaneously came the news that
the boundary dispute between Peru
and Ecuador had entered upon a stage
of amicable settlement. The position
of the United States in reference to
the Tacna-Arica dispute between
Chile and Peru has been one of non
intervention, but one of friendly in
fluence and pacific counsel throughout
the period during which the dispute
in question has been the subject of
interchange of views between this
government and the two governments
immediately concerned. In the gen
eral easing of international tension on
the west coast of South America the
tripartite mediation, to which I have
referred, has been a most potent and
beneficent factor.
China.
In China the policy of encouraging
financial investment to enable that
country to help itself has had the re
sult of giving new life and practical
application to the open-door policy.
The consistent purpose of the present
administration has been to encourage
the use of American capital in the
development of China by the promo
tion of those essential reforms to
which China is pledged by treaties
with the United States and other pow.
ers. The hypothecation to foreign
bankers in connection with certain in
dustrial enterprises, such as the Huku
ang railways, of the national reven
ues upon which these reforms depend
ed, led the department of state early
in the administration to demand for
American citizens participation in
such enterprises, in order that the
United States might have equal rights
and an equal voice in all questions
pertaining to the disposition of the
public revenues concerned. The same
policy of promoting international ac
cord among the powers having similar
treaty rights as ourselves in the mat
ters 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 de
sired by China for the reform of its
currency. The principle of interna
tional co-operation in matters of com
mon interest upon which our policy
had already been based in all of the
above instances has admittedly been
a great factor in that concert of the
powers which has been sc 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 Nica
ragua and Honduras to help them
selves. They arc the immediate bene
ficiaries. The national benefit to the
United States i3 two-fold. First, it is
obvious that the Monroe doctrine is
more vital in the neighborhood of the
Panama canal and the zone of the
Caribbean than anywhere else. There,
too, the maintenance of that doctrine
falls most heavily upon the United
States. It is therefore essential that
the countries within that sphere shall
be removed from the jeopardy involv
ed by heavy foreign debt and chaotic
national finances and from the ever
present danger of international com
plications due to disorder at home.
Hence the United States has been
glad to encourage and support Amer
ican bankers who were willing to lend
a helping hand to the financial re
habilitation of such coutries 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 men
ance of revolutionary disorder.
The second advantage to the Unit
ed States is one affecting chiefly all
the southern and gulf ports and the
business and industry of the south.
The republics of Central America and
the Caribbean possess great natural
wealth. They need only a measure of
stability and the means of financial
regeneration to enter upon an era of
peace and prosperity, bringing profit
and happiness to themselves and at
the same time creating conditions
sure to lead to a flourishing in
terchange of trade with this country.
I wish to call your especial attention
to the recent occurrences in Nica
ragua, for I believe the terrible events
recorded there during the revolution
of the past summer—the useless loss
of life, the devastation of property,
the bombardment of defenseless cities,
the killing and wounding of women
and children, the torturing of non
combatants to exact contributions,
and the suffering of thousands of hu
man beings—might have been avert
ed had the department of state,
through approval of the loan conven
tion by the senate, been permitted to
carry' out its now weli-developed policy
of encouraging the extending of fi
nancial aid to weak Central American
states with the primary objects of
avoiding just such revolutions by as
sisting those republics to rehabili
tate their finances, to establish their
currency on a stable basis, to remove
the custom houses from the danger
of revolutions by arranging for their
secure administration, and to estab
lish reliable banks.
During this last revolution in Nica
ragua, the government of that repub
lic having admitted its inability to
protect American life and property
against acts of sheer lawlessness on
the part of the malcontents, and hav
ing requested this government to as
sume that office, it became neessary to
land over 2,000 marines and bluejack
ets in Nicaragua. Owing to their
presence the constituted government
of Nicaragua was free to devote its
attention wholly to its Internal trou
bles, and was thus enabled to stamp
out the rebellion in a short space of
time. When the Red Cross supplies
sent to Granada had been exhausted.
8,000 persons having been given food
In one day upon the arrival of the
American forces, our men supplied
other unfortunate, needy Nicaraguans
from their own haversacks. I wish to
congratulate the officers and men of
the United States navy and marine
corps who took part in re-establishing
order in Nicaragua upon their splen
did conduct, and to record with sor
row the death of seven American ma
rines and bluejackets. Since the
re-establishment of peace and order,
elections have been held amid condi
tions of quiet and tranquility. Nearly
all the American marines have now
been withdrawn. The country should
soon be on the road to recovery. The
only apparent danger now threatening
Nicaragua arises from the shortage
of funds. Although American bankers
have already rendered assistance,
they may naturally be loath to ad
vance a loan adequate to set the coun
try upon its feet without the support
of some such convention as that of
June, 1911, upon which the senate has
not yet acted.
The president alluded briefly to the
enforcement of neutrality laws, to
Secretary Knox's visit to Central
America and to the unfortunate dis
turbances in Mexico. Continuing, the
message said:
Agricultural Credits.
A most important work, accom
plished in the past year by the Ameri
can diplomatic officers in Europe, is
the investigation of the agricultural
credit system in the European coun
tries. Both as a means to afford relief
to the consumers of this country
through a more thorough develop
ment of agricultural resources and as
a means of more sufficiently maintain
ing the agricultural population, the
project to establish credit facilities for
the farmers is a concern of vital im
portance to this nation. No evidence
of prosperity among well-established
farmers should blind us to the fact
that lack of capital Is preventing a
development of the nation’s agricul
tural resources and an adequate in
crease of the land under cultivation;
that agricultural production is fast
falling behind the increase in popula
tion; and that, in fact, although these
well-established farmers are main
tained in increasing prosperity be
cause of the natural increase in popu
lation, we are not developing the in
dustry of agriculture. We are not
breeding in proportionate numbers a
race of independent and independence
loving land owners, for a lack of
which no growth of cities can com
pensate. Our farmers have been our
mainstay in times of crisiB, and in
future it must still largely be upon
their stability and common sense that
this democracy must rely to conserve
its principles of self-government.
The need of capital which American
farmers feel today had been experi
enced by the farmers of Europe, with
ago. The problem had been success
their centuries-old farms, many years
fully solved in the old world and it
was evident that the f" -mers of this
country might profit by a study of
their systems. I therefore ordered,
through the department of state, an
investigation to be made by the diplo
matic officers in Europe, and I have
laid the results of this investigation
before the governors of the various
states with the hope that they will
be used to advantage in their forth
coming meeting.
Increase of Foreign Trade.
In my last annual message I said
that the fiscal year ended June 30,
1911, was noteworthy as marking the
highest record of exports of American
products to foreign countries. The
fiscal year 1912 shows that this rate
of advance has been maintained, the
total domestic exports having a valu
ation approximately of $2,200,000,000,
as compared with a fraction over
$2,000,000,000 the previous year. It
is also significant that manufactured
and partly manufactured articles con
tinue to be the chief commodities form
ing the volume of our augmented ex
ports. the demands of our own people
for consumption requiring that an in
creasing proportion of our abundant
agricultural products be kept at home.
In the fiscal year 1911 the exports of
articles in the various stages of man
ufacture, not including foodstuffs part
ly or wholly manufactured, amounted
approximately to $907,500,000. In the
fiscal year 1912 the total w-as nearly
$1,022,000,000, a gain of $114,000,000.
Advantage of Maximum and Minimum
Tariff Provision.
The importance which our manufac
tures have assumed in the commerce
of the world in competition with the
manufactures of other countries again
draws attention to the duty of this
government to use its utmost endeav
ors to secure impartial treatment for
American products in all markets.
Healthy commercial rivalry in inter
national intercourse is best assured
by the possession of proper means
for protecting and promoting our
foreign trade. It is natural that
competitive countries should view
with some concern this steady
expansion of our commerce. If in
some instances the measure taken by
them to meet it are not entirely equi
table, a remedy should be found. In
former messages I have described the
negotiations of the department of
state with foreign governments for the
adjustment of the maximum and min
imum tariff as provided in section 2
of the tariff law of 1909. The advan
tages secured by the adjustment of
our trade relations under this law
have continued during the last year,
and some additional cases of discrim
inatory treatment of which we had
reason to complain have been re
moved. The department of state has
for the first time in the history of
this country obtained substantial
most-favored-nation treatment from
all the countries of the world. There
are. however, other Instances which,
while apparently not constituting un
due discrimination in the sense of
section 2, are nevertheless exceptions
to the complete equity of tariff treat
ment for American products that the
department of state consistently has
sought to obtain for American com
merce abroad.
necessity tor supplementary i_eigsia
lation.
These developments confirm the
opinion conveyed to you in my annual
message of 1911, that while the max
imum and minimum provision of the
tariff law of 1909 has been fully jus
tified by the success achieved in re
moving previously existing undue dis
criminations against American prod
ucts, yet experience has shown that
this feature of the law should be
amended in such way as to prevent
a fully effective means of meeting
the varying degrees of discriminatory
treatment of American commerce in
foreign countries still encountered, as
well as to protect against injurious
treatment on the part of foreign gov
ernments. through either legislative
of administrative measures, the finan
cial interests abroad of American cit
izens whose enterprises enlarge the
market for American commoditiees.
I can not too strongly recommend
to congress the passage of some such
enabling measure as the bill which
was recommended by the secretary
of state in his letter of December 13,
1911. The object of the proposed leg
islation is, in brief, to en
able the executive to apply,
as the case may require, to any
or all commodities, whether or not on
the free list from a country which
discriminates against the United
States, a graduated scale of duties
up to the maximum of 25 per cent, ad
valorem provided in the present latv.
Flat tariffs are out of date. 'U
Special Claims Arbitration With Great
Britain.
The special agreement entered into
between the United States and Great
Britain on August 18, 1910, for the ar
bitration of outstanding pecuniary
claims, a schedule of claims and the
terms of submission have been agreed
upon by the two governments, and to
gether with the special agreement
were approved by the senate on July
19, 1911, but in accordance with the
terms of the agreement they did not
go into effect until confirmed by the
two governments by an exchange of
notes, which was done on April 26
last. Negotiations are still in prog
ress for a supplemental schedule of
claims to be submitted to arbitration
under this agreement, and meanwhile
the necessary preparations for the ar
bitration of the claims Included in the
first schedule have been undertaken
and are being carried on under the
authority of an appropriation made for
that purpose at the last session of
congress. It is anticipated that the
two governments will be prepared to
call upon the arbitration tribunal, es
tablished under this agreement, to
meet at Washington early next year
to proceed with this arbitration.
Fur Seal Treaty and Need for Amend
ment of Our Statute.
The act adopted at the last session
of Congress to give effect to the fur
seal convention of July 1, 1911, be
tween Great Britain, Japan. Russia
and the United States, provided for
the suspension of all land killing of
seals on the Pribilof islands for a pe
riod of five years, and an objection
has now been presented to this pro
vision by the other parties in inter
est, which raises the issue as to
whether or not this prohibition of land
killing is inconsistent with the spirit,
if not the letter, of the treaty stipu
lations. The justification for estab
lishing this close season depends, un
der the terms of the convention, upon
how far. If at all, it is necessary for
protecting and preserving the Amerl
ani fur-seal herd and for increasing
its number. This is a question re
quiring examination of the present
condition of the herd and the treat
ment which it needs in the light of
actual experience and scientific inves
tigation. A careful examination of
the subject is now being made, and
this government will soon be in pos
session of a considerable amount of
new Information about the American
seal herd, which has been secured
during the past season and will be of
great value in determining t^is ques
tion; and if it should appear that
there is any uncertainty as to the
real necessity for imposing a close
season at this time, I shall take
an early opportunity to address
a special message to congress on this
subject, in the belief that this govern
ment should yield on this point rather
than give the slightest ground for the
charge that we have been in any way
remiss in observing our treatx obliga
tions.
Final Settlement of North Atlantic
Fisheries Dispute.
On the 20th of July last an agree
ment was concluded between the
United States and Great Britain
^adopting, with certain modifica
tions, the rules and method of
procedure recommended in the
award rendered by the North Atlantic
Coast Fisheries Arbitration Tribunal
on September 7, 1910, for the settle
ment hereafter, in accordance with
the principles laid down in the award,
of questions arising with reference to
the exercise of the American fishing i
liberties under Article I of the treaty |
of October 20, IS 18, between the1
United States and Great Britain. This j
agreement received the approval of ]
the senate on August 1 and was for
mally ratified by the two governments
on November 15 last. The rules and
a method of procedure embodied in
the award provided for determining
by an Impartial tribunal the reason
ableness of any new fishery regula
tions on the treaty coasts of New
foundland and Canada before such
regulations could be enforced against
American fishermen exercising their
treaty liberties on those coasts, and
also for determining the delimitation
of bays on such coasts more than 10
miles wide, in accordance with the
definition adopted by the tribunal of
the meaning of the word “bays" as
used in the treaty.
Imperial Valley and Mexico.
In order to make possible the more
effective performance of the work nec
essary for the confinement In their
present channel of the waters of the
lower Colorado river, and thus to pro
tect the people of the Imperial Val
ley, as well as in order to reach with
the government of Mexico an under
standing regarding the distribution of
the waters of the Colorado river, In
which both governments are much
interested, negotiations are going for
ward with a view to the establish
ment of a preliminary Colorado river
commission, which shall have the
powers necessary to enable it to do
the needful work and with authority
to study the question of the equitable
distribution of the waters. There la
every reason to believe that an un
derstanding upon this point will be
reached and that an agreement will
be signed in the near future.
The message told what the govern
ment has done in connection with the
Balkan war and in placing the gov
ernment of Liberia in position to pay
its debts. The new condition of af
fairs in China was set forth, and
then our relations with Central and
South American governments were
set forth in more detail. It concluded
as follows:
Congress should fully realize the
conditions which obtain in the world
as we find ourselves at the threshold
of our middle age as a nation. Wo
have emerged full grown as a peer in
the great concourse of nations. We
have passed through various forma
tive periods. We have been self-cen
tered in the struggle to develop our
domestic resources and deal with our
domestic questions. The nation is
now too mature to continue in its for*
eign relations those temporary expe
dients natural to a people to whom do
mestic affairs are the sole concern,
lu the past our diplomacy has often
consisted, in normal times, in a mere
assertion of the right to international
existence. We are now in a larger
relation with broader rights of our
own and obligations to others than
ourselves. A number of great guid
ing principles were laid down early in
the history of this government. The
recent task of our diplomacy has been
to adjust those principles to the con
ditions of today, to develop their corol
laries, to find practical applications of
the old principles expanded to meet
new situations. Thus are being
evolved bases upon which can rest
the superstructure of policies which
must grow with the destined progress
of this nation. The successful con
duct of our foreign relations demands
a broad and a modern view. We can
not meet new questions nor build for
the future if we confine ourselves to
outworn dogmas of the past and to
the perspective appropriate i at our
emergence from colonial tinfes and
conditions. The opening of the Pana
ma canal will mark a new era in our
international life and create new and
world-wide conditions which, with
their vast correlations and conse
quences. will obtain for hundreds of
years to come. We must not wait for
events to overtake us unawares. With
continuity of purpose we must deal
with the problems of our external re
lations by a diplomacy modern, re
sourceful. magnanimous, and fittingly
expressive of the high ideals of a
great nation.
WH. H. TAFT.
The White House,
December 3, 1912.
WENT AWAY WITH THE BOOTY
Elderly Irish Lady Proved She Was
Quite Capable of Rising to
the Occasion.
Lord Spencer, when viceroy of Irei
land, used to keep open house, and all
ladies and gentlemen who had attend
ed drawing-rooms or levees had an un
written right to attend the SL Pat
rick’s day ball. Some very queer peo
ple used to present themselves.
Not contented with eating and drink
ing all they could, many persons used
to make predatory raids on the tables
and carry off eatables of all sorts. On
one occasion the comptroller saw a
stout, elderly lady take a whole fowl
and stuff it with considerable deftness
into a somewhat capacious silk and
embroidered bag. He at once went
up to her and, pointing with his finger
at the bag, said:
"Madam, won’t you take some ham
with that?’’
The good lady was not in the least
abashed, but replied:
"Ah, captain, sure it's a joker you
are,” and stuck to her booty.—From
Sir Alfred Turner's Autobiography.
HAIR CAME OUT IN BUNCHES
813 E. Second St., Muncie, Ind—“My
little girl had a bad breaking out on
the scalp. It was little white lumps.
The pimples would break out as large
as a common pinhead all over her
head. They would break and run yel
low matter. She suffered nearly a year
with itching and burning. It was sore
and itched all the time. The matter
that ran from her head was very thick.
I did not comb her hair very often, her
head was too sore to comb it, and
when I did comb, it came out in
bunches. Some nights her head itched
so bad she could not sleep.
“I tried several different soaps and
ointments, also patent medicine, but
nothing could I get to stop it. I began
using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura
Ointment this summer after I sent for
the free samples. I used them and
they did so much good I bought a cake
of Cuticura Soap and some Cuticura
Ointment. I washed her head with
Cuticura Soap and rubbed the Cuticura
Ointment in the scalp every two
weeks. A week after I had washed her
head three times you could not tell she
ever had a breaking out on her head.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also made
the hair grow beautifully.” (Signed)
Mrs! Emma Patterson, Dec. 22, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card “Cuticura, Dept L, Boston.”
Adv.
Millions of Red Cross Seals on Sale.
Over 80,000,000 Red Cross Christ
mas seals are now on salo in almost
every large city and nearly every
state in the United States. The pro
ceeds go for the benefit of the anti
tuberculosis movement in the commu
nity where the seals are sold. So
carefully has the sale been organized
throughout the country that with the
exception of the states of Florida,
Oklahoma, Nevada and Idaho, Red
Cross seals will be on sale in almost
every city, town, village and hamlet
in the United States and even in
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Canal
Zone.
His Successor.
"I suppose you expect your son to
step into your shoes when you retire.”
“No. I hardly expect that; but he
has already taken my seat in the front
row.” >
Kind to Watch.
“Dibbs apparently has no bad hab
its.”
“Beware of that man.”
Don’t Envy
anyone a good appetite—
a perfect digestion—a
robust constitution.
HOSTETTER’S
STOMACH BITTERS
will help you to obtain
these very quickly. It
tones — strengthens — in
vigorates—the entire di
gestive system and always
stands for better health.
Try it today. All Druggists.
Constipation
Vanishes Forever
Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure
LAnlEH O U11LL
LIVER PILLS never .
fail. Purely vegeta- A
ble — act surely
but gently on a
the liver. ^k
Stop after JKi
dinner dis- “
tress—cure
indiorpstion.^
CARTERS
■ ITTLE
■ IVER
|PUAS.
improve the complexion, brighten the eyea.
SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE.
Genuine must bear Signature
A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
Tn till « auA nf roQonri'h nnrl orru>Hmnnl all nolHM
Making Balance Even.
A chimney sweep’s boy went Into a
baker's shop for a twopenny loaf, and
conceiving it to be small remarked to
the baker that he did not believe it
was weight. “Never mind that.” said
tht man of dough. "You will have
the less to carry.” “True,” replied
the lad, and, throwing three half
pence on the counter left the shop.
The baker called after him that he
had not left enough money. "Never
mind that,” said young sooty, “you
will have the less to count.”
\
Not Inconvenienced.
“Did the dissolution of your gigantic
corporation cause you inconvenience?"
“Not the slightest," replied Mr. Dustin
Stax. “I needed an enlarged and im
proved system of branch offices, any
how.”
Greek Fire to Be Used Auxin.
To stop following hostile vessels or
even for purposes of attack when the
conditions are right a German naval
officer has Invented a Greek fire that
will burn while floating on water.
Emphatic Comment.
It was held by the duke of Welling
ton that the true story of the battle
of Waterloo had never been written.
A contemporary relates how he once
sat in a carriage with the duke and
“watched him read a ponderous quar
to recital of the battle of Waterloo.
AgainBt paragraph after paragraph he
traced the letters ‘L.' or ‘D. L.’ with a
great blupt ended pencil. I ventured
to ask what these mystic letters
meant. The pithy reply was: “ ‘Lie”
and "Damned lie,” to be sure.’ ”
I
Hindu Charm.
“The God-given Almighty Power is
moving within me to give health, suc
cess and happiness. 1 shall be shown
the way to help bring about all these
conditions. Love, Light and Kindness
wait uboq me. I shall be shown the
way.”
Woman.
Wrinkles are said to be the result
of experience. Is that why woman
is so keen on having her wrinkles
massaged away?
One Thing.
"1 see they are now showing circus
performances in the moving picture
houses.”
"Well. I suppose the time is coming
when well not have a chance to see
anything real. They will merely let
us look at moving pictures'of the real
things.’’
"There’s one thing well have to ex
perience In reality, instead of merely
locking at a moving picture of it.”
“What’s that?"
"Getting a tooth filled.”
Not All Owing to Wife.
“Biggins saye he owes everything
to his wife." That isn’t true,” replied
Biggins’ father-in-law. “His wife quit
lending him anything years ago and
then he started in owing me.”—Wash
ington Star.
Empty Feast.
“Why did you leave that boarding
house?" “Because the swellness was
at the expense of the food supply.”
"What do you mean?" “Pour kinds
of forks and two kinds of vegetables.”
13 ransacked by the scientific fort he comfort and hap
Rinessof man. Science has indeed made giant strides
l the past century, and among the—by no means
least important—discoveries in medicine Is that of
Therapion, which has been used witb great success In
French Hospitals and that it is worthy the attention
of those who suffer from kidney, bladder, nervous
diseases, chronic weaknesses, ulcers.skin eruptions,
piles, &e., there is no doubt. In fact it seems evident
from the biff stir created amongst specialists, that
THERAPION is destined to cast Into oblivion all
those questionable remedies that were formerly :bo
sole reliance of medical men. It is of course impos
sible to tell sufferers all we should like to tell them
in this short article, but those who would like to
know more abont this remedy that has effected so
many—we might almost say, miraculous cures,
should send addressed envelope for FRICK book to
Dr. LeClerc Med. Co., Haventock Road. Hampstead,
London, Bog. and decide for themselves whether the
New French Remedy “THERAPION" No. l.No.I
or No. 8 is what they require and have been seeking
In vain dnrtng a life of misery, suffering, ill health
and unhappiness. Therapion is sold by druggists or
mail U 00. Fuugera (Jo., WO Beekman 8t„ New Turk.
W. N. U.. OMAHA, NO. 49-1912.