The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20
FOREIGN POLICY
 OF UNITED STATES Aims of the Government s Diplomacy Stated by Sec
 retary of State Hay.
FAIRNESS TO ALL POWERS
THE WEAK AND THE STRONG TO BE
 TREATED ALIKE.

The Monroe Doctrine and the Colder
 Rule the Briefest Expression of thu
 American Rule of Conduct-Attitud'
 Toward Sister Republics to the south
 -The Extension of Commercial In-
 terests-Reciprocity Trenties-A Faii
 Field and No Favor is All That is e.
 quired-Cannot be Satisfied With Les,
 --The Nicaragua Canal.
 New York, Nov 19.-The one hundred and thirty third annual banquet of the
 Chamber of Commerce was held at Del
 monico's. this evening. Covers for 400 were laid in the main banquet room, which was decorated chiefly with Amer ican flags. gN
 At the table of honor, presided over by President Morris K. Jessup, were Ambassador Joseph H. Choate, John Hay, secretary of state; Senator John l.. McLaurin, of South Carolina, White law Reid, Governor elect Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa, Senator Chauncey M Depew, Andrew Carnegie, Mayor elect Seth Low, Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, J. Pierpont Morgan, William E. Dodge, Major General John R. Brooke, Carl Schurz, Alexander E. Orr, Governor Odell and Rear Admiral Albert S. Barker. The professional and business circles of the city were well represented in the list of the other guests.
 The speech making was briefly intro duced by Chairman Jessup. He then proposed a toast to the memory of Will liam Mckinley. It was drunk will all standing and in silence President Roosevelt's health was then toasted, while the orchestra played, and at the next toast, that of King Edward of England the British national anthem was played.
 In introducing Secretary Hay, Presi- dent Jessup proposed toast to Our Diplomacy" The secretary was warm- ly welcomed by the guests, and his speech at various points met with great enthusiasm. The applause was deafen- ing when in his preroration he said; NO wantonness of strength will ever induce us to drive hard bargain with another nation because it is weak, nor will any fear of ignoble criticism tempt us to insult or defy great power be- cause it is strong, or even because it Is friendly"
 After an eloquent tribute to the mem- ory of President Mckinley MT. Hay said: T dare to come to you because you have asked me and he would have wished it. for he held that our personal feelings should never be considered when they conflicted with public duty. And if I fall immeasurably below the standard to which he has accustomed you the very comparisons you draw will be tribute to his memory.
 q ain asked to say something about our diplomacy. You want from me nothing but the truth; and yet if con- fine myself to the truth l cannot help fearing I shall do my profession a wrong in the minds of those who have been in the habit of considering dlplo- macy an occult science as mysterious as alchemy and as dangerous to the morals as municipal politics. It must he admitted that this conception of the diplomatic function is not without a certain historical foundation.
 sThere was time when diplomacy was a science of L5trlgue and falsehood, of traps and mines and counter-mlnes. If may be another Instance Of that | naive credulity with which have often ! been charged by European critics when 1T say that I really believe the world | has moved onward in diplomacy as III | many other matters In my experience | of diplomatic life, which now covers 1 more years than l like to look back ,,non. and in the far greater record Of | American diplomacy which I have read and studied, can say without hesita- lion that we have generally told square Iv what we wanted, announced early in | rapo+ia tion what we were willing to yive and allowed the other side to &C., cent or reject our terms. During the time in which I have been prominently concerned in our foreign relations l can also say that we have been met by the of other powers in the same snirit of frankness and sincerity.
 "As to the measure of success which our recent diplomacy has met with, it is dificult if not impossible, for me to speak.
 s.There are two important lines of hu- man endeavor in which men are forbid den even to diuue 'o 'iS affairs of the heart and diplomatic af- fairs
 "But if we are not permitted to boast If what we have done we can at least say word about what we have tried to do and the principles which have puided our action. The briefest expres- sion of our rule of conduct is perhaps The Monroe doctrine and the golden rule. With this simple chart we can hardly go far wrong "I think I may say that our sister re- ouhlics to the south of us are perfectly of the sincerity of our atti- Iude. They know we desire the pros- 3erity of each of them, and peace and harmony among them. We no more want their territory than we covet the xIs-..4.,. x,r, Sixth Pa ere