Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-05
GOOD WILL OF REPUBLICS
Cordial Sentiments Exchanged at a Dinner
in Paris,
Ex-President Harrison Contribute. n
Thoughtful Address-Our Coun-
try's Position Outlined.

| At the annual dinner of the American
| chamber of commerce at the Grand Hotel.
| Paris, yesterday. the minister of commerce.
| NJ. Millerand. in addressing those present.
/ said, in part:
| In inviting each year the government of
the French republic to be represented at
| the dinner in commemoration of the indie
| pendence of the United States the American
| chamber of commerce at Paris testifies TO
| the fidelity and TO the strength OF the mem
| cries which unite one to the other the two
sister republics. 1t is permitted TO them.
| on the threshold of new century, to in
| woke with legitimate pride the memory Of
the immortal period during which one saw,
| a rev years distance, young and grand
| people born into independence, and a ma
| uon already old, break. you know at the
| price of what efforts the forms of the mast
| TO install in her midst the rule of liberty and
| of justice, which she had Just contributed
| to founding on the other side Of the At
| lantic.
| by different means. which involve the
| most profound difference of origin method
| and race, they have sought for the solution
| of the same problem, to organize the gov
| eminent of a free democracy mistress of
nerse1. Never am happy to say. We're
| the bonds of amicabe sympathy which
| unite the two people more strong and more
| close.
| Reference to American Colony.
| Each day which draws us nearer to the
| grand feast of labor, to which France has
| invited the nations of the world sees an
increase in the number of the members of
your colony, which is one of the delightful
| features Of our Paris.
| Finally. We are permitted to hope that
| In few days from now a definite agree
| n'ent viii have been reached on the sub
| tect of French products in the United
| States. and also in regard to American
| products in France, giving to them the
| most favored nation treatment and the
| conclusion of the agreement by which from
| 1873 the two governments decided to apply
| the reduced American tariff and the mini
mum French tariff to certain number Of
products.
| Gentlemen raise my glass to the Amer
| lean colony to the chamber of commerce,
| to the American republic and to its Presi-
| dent"
Message From President Mckinley.
| Mr.. Peartree, president of the chamber
of commerce, read the following dispatch
which he had just received from President
| Mckinley:
| Il heartily reciprocate your good wishes
and hope that our cordial relations with
| France may endure and become stronger
| year by year"
Letters were then read from NJ. Waldeck-
| Rousseau. French premier and NJ. Delcasse
French minister Of foreign affairs, express
| present After a brief speech of welcome,
| in the course of which he referred to the
| efforts of the American chamber of COM
| merce in Paris on behalf of the reciDrocity
! treaty between the United States and
| France, Mr.. Peartree proposed the health
| of President Mckinley, then that of Presi-
| dent Loubet of France, and finally that of
| Benjamin Harrison.
The guest of honor in the program was
| unable TO be present, owing to indisposition.
until the speech making well under
way.
Mr.. Harrison's Speech.
| Mr.. Harrison said, in part:
THE observance of this anniversary in
| France has peculiar interest to us. as we
! celebrate the event in the land of La
| fayette, the land whose sympathetic inter-
| est in a poor and struggling people did so
| much to convert the declared right to be
| free into freedom. The Americans have
grown strong, but they have not ceased TO
| be grateful When America forgets her
| debt she will be unworthy and incapable of
| international friendship.
We have other friends, but none whose
friendship involves enmity to France. We
are pleased when she is prosperous and
| grieved when she is troubled. The United
| States is most favorably situated for the
| cultivation of peaceful relations with all
other nations. In the affairs Of the nations
beyond seas no question of the balance OF
power has ever disturbed 1t. Our neighbors
could not contest our supremacy. but We
will never use our power TO their disadvan-
tage.
THE United States has not set its eyes
upon distant possessions America has
| never failed, either in Greece, Armenia or
South America, to make it known that she
reprobated cruelty and persecution, but she
has not felt that she has commission to
police the world. She would gladly have
welcomed a settlement Of the Cuban ques-
ton by the establishment of humane,
just and liberal government under Spain, IL
that had been possible.
we have incurred RESPONSIBILITIES there
and in the Philippines; and we shall not
fail to discharge them at any cost. 1t is
too late to debate the question whether 1t
were wiser to carry out in the Philippines
a purely naval campaign or the question
whether destiny our own choice in
volved US there. We have assumed respon-
sibilities toward peaceable people there
toward Spain and toward the world. We
must establish order as a preliminary to
the consideration of any question to the
ultimate destiny and disposition of the
archipelago.
Not n Menace to Europe.
I'VE are very proud of the magnificent
achievements of our navy and army and
are glad If European Misrepresentation as
to our naval construction and seamanship
is removed We are glad If a truer appre-
cialon of the vast war resources of the
United Stat IS prevails-glad only because
1t gives security in the hemisphere in which
we are placed not because IL is a threat to
Europe.
Our moral intervention for the oppressed
and our late Intervention by arms have
been in the interest of liberty, not gain We
see opening before the wide door of
commerce throughout the word. and 1t
must not be thought unnatural, in spite of
differences and strifes, If a peculiar friend
illness is felt by us for those of our own
language and race across the channel but
no one has suggested that for this either
Great Britain the United States should
assume all the quarrels and animosities of
Others. The friendship of the United States
for England is not enmity for the rest of
the world"
Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court
Gen. Horace Porter and a number of 9TH
ers made remarks.
There was a grand reception in the after
noon at the United States embassy which
was beautifully decorated with flowers
tropical plants and flags. Nearly the whole
American colony attended
A COlOred Waiter Shot
Harry Walker of HaPerStoup Nj