The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-20
DIPLOMACY
 AND TRADE The Two Now Go Hand
 In Hand. BUSINESS MEN BANQUET The 133rd Annual Dinner 0f Chamber of Commerce. Secretary of State John Hay and John L. McLaurin, Senator from South Carolina, Respond
 to Toasts.
BUSINESS MEN BANQUET

New York, Nov. 1s.-The 1s3rd annual banouet of the Chamber of Commerce was held at Oelmonicos this evening Covers for 45o were laid in the main ban or-,t room which was simply, though ef- f. ,ely. decorated, chiefly with Ameri- c flags. At the table of honor. pre- sided over by President Morris K. Jesup were Ambassador Joseph H. Choate. John Hay, Secretary of State; Senator John l.. McLaurin of South Carolina; White law Reid, Governor-elect A. B. Commins of Iowa; Senator Chauncey M. Depew' the Rev. Dr. Donald Sage Mackay. An drew Carnegie, Mayor-elect Seth Low, Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, J. Pierpont Morgan, William E. Dodge, Sam D. Babcock, Major General John h' Brooke, Carl Schurz. Alex D. Orr, Gov ernor odell, Rear Admiral Albert s. Barker and w. B. Ridgeley.
 After toasts to the memory of William Mckinley, to President Roosevelt health and to King Edward of England, President Jesup introduced Secretary of State Hay, proposing a toast to our Diplomacy"
 Secretary John Hay.
 After an eloquent tribute to the mem ory of President Mckinley, MT; nay salut II am asked to say something apout our diplomacy. There was time when dipiomaey was science of intrigue and falsehood. of traps and mines ana coun- termines. In my expeT fence or olploIhauc life. and in the far greater record or American diplomacy, 1 can say without hesitation that we have generany tola souareIy what we wanted, annouhceu early in negotiations what we were Will ing to give, and allowed the other side to accent or reject our terms. During tne time which have been prominently con csrned in our foreign relatonss ass. ce ti { also say tlfat we have been met py the representatives of other powers with the same spirit of frankness and sincerity. l think that I may say that our sister re- nublics to the south are perfectly con- yinced of the sincerity of our attitude. They know we desire the prosperity or each of tn. m and peace and harmony among them. We no more want their ter ritory 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 thlnK or irving to compose any of these differences unless by the request of both partles to it. Not even our earnest desire TOT peace
 
 which might offend their national dignity ar their just sense of independence. We would endow them with all the considera- ton We claim for ourselves.
 As to what the United States had tried to do during the last four years in diplo- macy, MT Hay said:
 The Policy of Washington
 we have striven, on the lines laid down by Washington, to cultivate frlend- lv relations with all powers, but not to :ake part in the formation of groups or combinations of them. We have kept al- vays in view the fact that we are pre-emi- nently a peace-loving people; that our normal activities are in the direction or frada and commerce; that the vast de- raIonment of our industries imperatively demands that we shall not only retain md confirm our hold on our present mar rets hut seek constantly, by all honora- ,le means, to extend our commercial in- ;erests in every practicable direction.
 Ut is for this reason We have negotl- tied the treaties of reciprocity which now iwait action of the Senate; all of them conceived in the traditional American spirit of protection to our own industries, and yet mutually advantageous to our selves and our neighbors. In the same spirit we have sought successfully to ln- duce all the great powers to unite Tn a recognition of the general principle or equality of commercial access and oppor- tunity in the markets of the Orient. We believe that a fair field and no favor Is all we require, and with less than that we cannot be satis fled. If We accept the assurances we have received as honest and genuine, as I certainly do, that equal itv will not be denied us; and the result may be safely left to American genius and energy.
 we consider our interests in the Pa cific Ocean as great now as those of any other power and destined to indefinite development We have opened our doors to the people of Hawaii, We have accept ed the responsibility of the Philippines which Providence imposed upon us; We have nut an end to embarrassing condo minimum in which we were involved in Samoa, and while abandoning none of our commercial rights in the entire group, We have established our flag and our au- thority in Tutuila, which gives us the finest harbor in the South Seas.
 Cable and Canal.
 Next in order will come a Pacific ca ble and an isthmian canal for the use of all we'll disposed peoples, but under ex- elusive American ownership and Ameri- can control; both of which great enter prices President Mckinley and President Roosevelt have been the energetic and consistent champions After strongly commenting President Roosevelt and his peaceful intentions. MT. Hav said in conclusion: But the con- sciousness of strength brings with 1t nc temptation to do injury to any power on earth. the proudest or the humblest we frankly confess we seek the friendship oi all the powers; we want to trade Witn all people; we are conscious of resources that will make our commerce source ol advantage to them and also profit to our selves But no wantonness of strength will ever induce us to drive, a hard bar gain with another nation because 1t ts weak nor will any fear of ignoble criti' cism tempt us to insult or defy a great power because it is strong, or even be- cause it is friendly.
 "The attitude of diplomacy may be in dicated in a text of Scripture whict Franklin-the first and greatest of oui diplomats-tells us passed through hi: