Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-12-02

quet.room, which was decorated prin-
cipally with American flags. At the
table of honor. presided over by Presi.
dent Morris X. Jessup, were Embassa.
dor Joseph II. Choate, John Hay, Sec.
rotary OF State; Senator McLaurin of
South Carolina. Whitelaw Reid. Gov.
ernor.elect Cummins of Iowa. Senator
G. NJ. Depew, Rev. DR.. Donald Sage
Mackay, Andrew Carnegie, Mayor.
elect Seth Low, Lieutenant General
Nelson A. Miles, ]. Pierpont Morgan,
William Il. Dodge, Major General John
X. Brooke, Carl Schurz, Alexander Il.
Orr, Governor Odell and Rear Admiral
Albert s. Barker. The professional
and business circles of the city were
we'll represented in the list Of the 9th.
er guests.
The speechmaking was opened by
President Jessup in a very few words.
He then proposed toast to the mem.
DRY of william Mckinley. II was
drunk with all standing and in silence.
President Roosevelts health was then
toasted. while the orchestra played.
and at the next toast. that of King Ed.
ward of England. the British National
Anthem was played.
III sDtNItldTN nay.
ident Jessup proposed toast to Our
Diplomacy" The Secretary was
warmly welcomed by the guests, and
his speech at various points met with
great enthusiasm, especially when he
mentioned the name of President Nc.
Kinley. The speech obtained rapt at
tention. and the applause was deafen
ing when, in his peroration, he said:
No wantonness of strength will ever
induce us to drive hard bargain with
another nation because 1t is weak. nor
will any fear of ignoble criticism
tempt us to insult or defy a great pow.
err because 1t is strong, or even be-
cause It is friendly"
After an eloquent tribute to the
memory of President Mckinley, Mr.
Hay said:
There was time when diplomacy
was science of intrigue and false.
hood, of traps and mines, and counter.
mines. It may be another instance OF
that credulity with which have often
been charged by European critics,
when ! say that / really believe the
world has moved onward in diplomacy
as In many other matters. In my eX.
pcrience Of diplomatic life. which now
covers more years than I like to look
back upon, as In the far greater record
of American diplomacy which | have
read and studied. | can say without
hesitation that we have generally told
squarely what we wanted, announced
early In negotiations what we were
willing to give, and allowed the other
side to accept or reject our terms
During the time in which have been
| prominently concerned in our foreign
relations. can say that we have been
met by the representatives of other
powers by the same spirit of frank
ness and sincerity.
Our Diplomatic Success.
"As to the measure OF success which
our recent diplomacy has met with,
1t Is difficult, II not impossible. for me
to speak. There are two important
lines OF human endeavor In which men
are forbidden even to allude to their
success-affairs OF the heart and dip.
lomatic affairs. But If we are not per.
mitted to boast of what we have done
we can at least say a word about what
We have tried to do and the principles
which have guided our action. The
ohiNi'St SNPieoSiOh VI rune Vi COLI
duct is, perhaps, the Monroe doctrine
and the golden rule. With this simple
chart we can hardly go far wrong.
Il think ! may say that our sister
republics to the south of us are per.
fectly convinced Of the sincerity OF
our attitude. They know we desire
the prosperity of each of them and
peace and harmony among them. We
no more want their territory than we
covet the mountains of the moon. We
are grieved and distressed when there
are differences among them, but even
then we should never think OF trying
to compose any Of those differences
unless by the request of both parties
to 1t. Not even our earnest desire for
peace among them will lead us to any
action which might offend their ma.
tional dignity or their Just sense of in.
dependence. We would endow them
with all the consideration we claim for
ourselves.
las to what we have tried to do
what we are still trying to do-in the
general field of displomacy there Is
no reason for doubt on the one hand
or reticence on the other. President
Mckinley, in his messages during the
last four years, has made the subject
perfectly clear. We have striven, on
the lines laid down by Washington, to
cultivate friendly relations with all
powers, but not to take part in the for.
nation OF groups or combinations
among them. A position of complete
independence is not incompatible with
relations involving not friendship
alone. but concurrent action as well
in important emergencies. We have
kept always in view the fact that we
are prominently peace-loving PEG.
pie, that our natural activities are In
the direction of trade and commerce,
that the vast development o our in.
dustries imperatively demands that
we shall not only retain and confirm
our hold on our present markets, but
seek constantly, by all honorable
means, to extend our commercial In.
Treaties Of Reciprocity.
1T is for this reason we nave nego-
tiated the treaties OF reciprocity which
now await the action OF the Senate;
all of them conceived in the tradition.
al American spirit of protection to
our own industries and yet mutually
advantageous to ourselves and our
neighbors. In the. same spirit we
have sought successfully to induce all
the great powers to unite in a recog.
milton of the general principle of equal
ity or commercial acceibj and opportu.
nifty In the markets of the Orient. We
believe that fair field and no favor
is all that we require; and with less
n