Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-05
GRAND RECEPTION IN PARIS.
M. MiUeraud, BENJAMIN Harrison,
Justice Brewer and Ambassador
Porter Among the Speakers.
PARIS. july 4.-There was grand re


PARIS. July 4-There was grand re-
ception this afternoon at the United States
embassy, which was beautifully decorated |
with flowers, tropical plants and flags.
Nearly the whole, American colony at
tended. -t---~-
At the annual banquet OF the American
chamber of comerce at the Grand hotel
to-day, the minister of commerce, NJ. Mill !
Grand, in addressing those present, said:
in inviting, each year, the government |
of the French republic to be represented |
at the banquet in commemoration of the |
independence of the United States, the |
American chamber of commerce at Paris
testifies TO the fidelity and to the strength \
of the memories which unite one to the |
other the two sister republics.
Never, / am happy to say, were the |
bonds of amicable sympathy which unite |
the two peoples more strong and more |
close. Yesterday President Mckinley was |
kind enough to once more render pubic |
homage to the zeal with which our ambas-
sador at Washington faithfully executed
the instructions of his government lie
was, a year ago, an intermediary to facili- |
tate the conclusion of peace.
Each day which draws us nearer to the
grand feast of labor. to which France has
Invited the nations of the world, sees an IN
crease 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 definite agree
ment viii have been reached on the sub
ject of French products in the United
States and also in regard to American prod
ucts in France. giving them the most favor
ed nation treatment. 1t is pleasant TO ac-
complish duty of gratitude in thanking,
in the name Of the government, the Amer
lean chamber of commerce Cor the spon-
taneous help that chamber has been kind
enough to furnish to the course of these
Gentlemen, I lift my glass to the Ameri-
can republic and TO the president"
The banquet was great success, which
was due largely TO the presence of many
distinguished Americans. Benjamin Harri-
son, the guest of honor in The programme,
was unable TO be present, owing to indis-
position, until the speechmaking was well
dessert
Mr.. Peartree, president of the chamber
Of commerce, read the following dispatch,
which he had just received from President
Mckinley:
Il heartfly reciprocate your good wishes
and hope that our cordial relations with
France may endure and become stronger
year by year"
deck.Rousseau. the French premier. and
NJ. Delcasse, French minister of foreign
affairs. expressing their regreat at not be-
speech of welcome, in the course Of which
he referred to the efforts of the American
chamber of commerce IN Paris on behalf
United States and France, Mr. Peartree
proposed the health of President McKin-
ley; then that OF. President Loubet. of
France. and, finally, that of Mr.. Harri-
son.
BY this time Mr.. Harrison had arrived.
Rising, amid cheers. he said he had feared
that fndisposition would prevent him max
ing speech and he had, therefore, written
one, intending to ask some friend to read
put In an appearance, he would read it
himself. whi6~ he proceeded to do.
Mr.: Harrison said:
France has peculiar interest to us, as we
celebrate the event in the land of Lafay-
cite, the land whose sympathy for poor
fN IL -
vert the declared right to be free into free
dom. The Americans have grown stronger,
When America forgets her debt She will be
unworthy and incapable of international
friendship.
I'VE have other friends. but none whose
friendship involves enmity for France. We
are pleased when she is prosperous and
= grieyed when she Is troubled.
The United States Is most favorably sit
uated for the cultivation of peaceful re-
: lations with other nations. In the affairs of
nations beyond seas no question of tho
balance of power has ever disturbed us.
Our neighbors could not contest our su-
premacy. but we will never use our power
to their disadvantage.
THE United States has not set its eyes
upon distant possessions. America has
never failed. either in Greece, Armenia or
South America. to make ii known that she
reprobated cruelty and persecution. but she
has not felt that she has a commission to
police the world. She would gladly have
welcomed settlement of the Cuban ques-
tion by the establishment of a humane.
Just and liberal government under Spain Il
that had been possible.
I'VE 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 it
were wiser to carry out in the Philippines
p purely naval campaign. or the question
whether destiny or our own choice involved
US there We have assumed responsibilities
toward a peaceable people there, toward
Spain and toward the world. We must es-
tablish order as a preliminary to the con-
c n l.
mate destiny and disposition of the archi-
pelago.
I'VE are very proud of the achievements
of navy and army. and are glad If
European misapprehension to our naval
construction and seamanship is removed
We are glad If a truer appreciation of the
vast war resources of the United States
prevails, glad only because II gives security
in the hemisphere in which we are placed.
not because ii is a threat to Europe.
American diplomacy has been, I think,
peculiarly sentimental Our moral inter-
vention for the oppressed and our later in
tervention by arms have been in the inter-
est of liberty, not gain. We see opening
before US the wide doors of commerce
throughout the world, and 1t must not be
thought unnatural, in spite of differences
and strifes, IL a peculiar friendliness 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 or the United States should assume
all the quarrels and animosities of others.
The friendship of the United States for En-
gland is not enmity for the rest Of the
world.
"The United States is now more than
ever in sympathy with every practical sug-
gestion tending to diminish the influence of
arms in the determination OF international
questions. Arbitration halted because of
the difficulty of finding a purely judicial
tribunal that would consider international
questions with the same Indifference and
the same impartiality that characterize
courts in the trials of individuals. When
such tribunal is attained disarmament
will be near. America will hail that day. "
prolonged applause.J
Justice Brewer, of the United States su.
preme court, one of the Venezuelan boun.
dairy arbitration tribunal, said
"All true Americans do little boastinc
to-day, but for once I want to look for.
ward instead of backward. Great and
splendid have been the achievements of tht
century. but the soldier still stands at In,
door. The conference now in progress al
The Hague discloses the fact that dis
armament has not yet arrived. This mus
not be.
The question for the next century is no
the question of power to kill. but powe
to save. BY just such d degree as the Vene
zuelan tribunal shall commend itself I.
the impartial judgment of the great cour
of public opinion, by just SO much will /