The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-03
DAY is WELCOMED HOME
He Addresses the Members of
the Stark County Bar.
WITH ENGLAND
The United States Did Not Adopt a
Stand-and-Deliver Policy With
Spain-The Philippines Ours
to Do as We Please With.

| Canton, O., Jan. 2--Judge William R..
Day, president of the peace commission
at Paris and late secretary of state re-
ceived welcome home this evening
that took the form of banquet at the
Barnett house, given by the Stark
County Bar association. Judge George
e. Baldwin, one of the oldest practi-
| tioners at the local bar and a very inti-
mate friend of the guest of honor, de-
| liyered the welcome address, to which
Judge Day responded. Judge Day spoke
as follows of the matters which took
himself and his colleagues to Paris:
Recognizing that there are certain
| matters which may not properly be dis
cussed on an occasion of this kind,
think may nevertheless say something
to my brethren of the bar of ne events
which have occurred in the period of
our separation.
If l We're called upon to state the
most gratifying circumstances of our
foreign relations during the war, it
would be found in the uniformly cordial
and hearty friendship of the English
nation before and during the struggle.
Observing the obligations of neutrality
and never stepping outside the require
ments of international law, we had the
sympathy and good will of that great
power. / don't believe either nation
seeks or would be benefited by formal
alliance. Nevertheless the existence of
cordial relations between people kindred
by blood, speaking the same language
and having the same ideals of civil lib
erty and good government is a fact
the potency of which can hardly be
oVerestimated
Il have been asked about the work
or the commissioners, viewed from a
lawyers standpoint. I think I may say
something to you about it. If in excess
of the proprieties of the occasion, shall
ask you to treat it in professional conf
dence. On the 18th of August the pro-
tocol or Washington was executed. 1t
may be said to have been preliminary
contract, whose final execution was to
be embodied in the treaty. .
AS to Cuba, Porto Rico, minor West
India islands and an island in the La
drones, it was capable of execution by
simple deed of cession of these ISL
ands, except Cuba. where final relin-
quishments of Spanish sovereignty was
required. AS to the Philippines, their
disposition, government and control
was left for final determination in the
treaty. L have often been asked how it,
was possible to make progress in a
commission having equal representation
from the two nations. Whilst this fact
dld not prevent the fullest discussion,
the United States haying made all con-
cessions which it believed just and fair,
it was obliged to insist that it's form be
accepted.
THE publications of the proceedings
will show that nothing can be further
from the truth than to assume that the
United States adopted towards Spain
a policy of stand and deliver To-
night not one foot of American soil re-
mains under Spanish domination and
the people SO long oppressed are to
have new birth of freedom. This is
neither time nor place to discuss our
policy in the far East If this treaty
should be ratified it brings to the
United States title to the Philippine
archipelago, to be dealt with as the
American people in their wisdom see fit.
THE American citizen has right to
go wherever trade and enterprise may
seek an outlet for the product of Amer-
can thrift and industry and there must
follow, if need be, the overshadowing
protection of the flag