Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-20


 strange gods and the homes of exoti religions. Never before has the hea of the world throbbed with sorrow universal. Never before have the kin doms of the earth paid such homaa at the gravesof q citizen.
 .sOne simple reason why the million. of this country mourned him as if the had buried q brother and why all tL nations of the earth felt that his deat was loss to humanity at large wa that he loved his fellow men. ~Ther were literally no bounds to his lavis good will. In political genius, in wis dom for government, in power of coi trolling men, he was one of the elect ( the earth-there were few like. hin. But in sentfufeats and feeling he w.: the most perfect democrat I ever me. He never knew what it meant to r. gard another man as his inferior or T his superior. Nothing human wa alien to him. Even his death was il that sense significant. He was slai in the moment when, with that d. lightful smile we knew so well, whic seemed like the very sunshine of Il spirit, he was stretching forth a ger erous hand to greet the lowest all meanest unit in that crowd of man. thousands.
 Others will rise and labor and good service to the republic. We sha never lack good men when the emea gency calls for them. Thank God, W do not lack them now!, But it ma well be doubted if in any century c the glorious future before us there wi ever appear two such sincere, hig minded, self respecting lovers of tn people as the last fifty years hay. shown us in Abraham Lincoln ans William Mckinley.
 T am asked to say something abou, our diplomacy. You want from m nothing but the truth, and yet if l confne myself to the truth cannoi help fearing shall do my profession wrong in the minds of those who have been in the habit of considering diplo- macy an occult science, as mysterious as alchemy and as dangerous to the morals as municipal politics. It must be admitted that this conception ot the diplomatic function is not without a certain historical foundation.
 "As to the measure of success which our recent diplomacy has met with it is difficult if not impossible for me to speak. There are two important lines of human endeavor in which men arc forbidden even to allude to their sue cess-affairs of the heart and diplo- matic affairs. In doing so one not only commits q vulgarity which transcends all question of taste, but makes all flu lure success impossible. For this req son the diplomatic representatives of the government must frequently suffer in silence the most outrageous imputa- tions upon their patriotism, their in telligence and their c mmon honesty. To justify themselves before the public they would sometimes have to place in Jeopardy the interests of the nation. They must constantly adopt for them selves the motto of the French revolu- tionist, Let my name wither rather than my country be injured
 "But if we are not permitted to boast or what we have done we can at least say word about what we have tried to do and the principles which have guided our action The briefest ex- pression of our rule of conduct is per haps the Monroe doctrine and the gold en rule.
 "The attitude of our diplomacy may be indicated in a text of Scripture which Franklin, the first and greatest of our diplomats, tells us passed Through his mind when he was pre- sented at the court of Versailles. It was text his father used to quote to him in the old candle shop in Boston