The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-20
HAY TALKS OF NATIONS
DIPLOMATIC POLICY
Temperate Attitude Of the United States Toward
Weak and Strong Governments.
Our Law of Conduct Expressed the Monroe Doctrine and the
Golden Rule.

velopment Of our industries impera-
lively 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 interests in every practic-
| able direction.
1T is for this reason we have negO-
/ tiated the treaties Of reciprocity which
/ now await action Of the senate; all Of
/ them conceived in the traditional
American spirit Of protection to our
own industries and yet mutually ad-
/ vantageOUs tC ourselves and our neigh
bors. In the same spirit we have
! sought successfully to induce all the
( great powers to unite in a recognition
( OF the general principle of equality or
I commercial access and opportunity in
/ the markets of the Orient. We believe
that a fair field and no favOrs' is all
we require, and with less than that We
/ cannot be satisfied.
IF we accept the assurances we have
/ received as honest and genuine, as I
Z certainly do, that equality viii not be
| denied us, and the result may be left
to American genius and energy
Interests in the Pacific.
we consider our interests in the Pa
/ citic ocean as great now as those Of
any other power and destined to indef-
/ mite development. We have opened
( our doors to the people of Hawaii; we
l have accepted the responsibility of the
/ Philippines which Providence imposes
on US; we have put an end to the en-
! barrassing condition in which we were
I in Samoa, and while abandoning none
/ OF our commercial rights in the entire
/ group we have established our flag
and our authority in Tutuila, which
gives US the finest harbOr in the South
seas.
Next in order viii come a Pacific
cable, and an isthmanian canal for the
use of all well-disposed people, but IN
der exclusive American ownership and
American control-Of both of which
great enterprises President Mckinley
and President Roosevelt have been the
energetic and consistent champions.
Sure as we are Of our rights in =
= these matters, convinced as we are =
> of the authenticity of the vision =
> which has led US thus far and still =
= beckons us, forward, 1 can yet as 2
> sure you that so long as the adj =
= ministratiOn of your affairs re- =
= mains in hands as strong End skill 2
> ful As those to which they have =
? been and are now confided, there :
= WIFI be no violation Of the rights =
= Of others. The president TO whom ,
= you have given your invaluable ?
= trust and confidence. like his now =
, immortal predecessor, is as inca =
= pable of bullying "a strong power =
= as he is Of wTinging a weak one. =
Nations Given Strength.
He feels and lnows-for has he not
tested it in the currents Of heady fight.
80 Il
ministratiOn-that the nation over
whose destinies he pTesides has a
giants strength in the works of war.
as in the works Of peace. But that
consciousness Of strength brings with
il no temptation to do injury TO any
power on earth, the prOudeSt or the
hUmblesJ.
I'VE humbly confess we seek the
friendship of all tEe powers; we want
to trade with all peoples; we are con-
scious Of resources that viii make our
commerce a source of advantage to
them and also profit to ourselves. But
no wantonness or strength will ever in
duce us 10 drive hard bargain with
another nation because it is weak. nor
viii any fear Of ignobIe criticism
tempt us to insult or defy great pow
er because it IS strong, or even because
it is friendly.
The attitude Of our diplomacy may
Zee indicted in text If scripture which
Fl anklin-the first and greatest of our
diplomats-te.ls us passed through his
mind when he was at the court of Yer
sailcs il was text his father used
to quote to him in the old candle shop
in Boston when he was a boy.
'S6est thou a man diligent in his
business. he shall stand before kings
LET us be diligent in our business
and We shall stand, you see, not crawl.
nor ggeI-staud, as a friend and
equal, asking nothing, putting up with
nothing but what is right and just
among cur peers. i'm The great demOc-
Iacy Of nations
Mr.. hay is Applauded-
After he concluded Secretary Hay
was obliged several times to acknowl-
edge the applause accorded him by the
diners.
Governor OdeH spoke to the toast,
The State Of New York" and Mayor
elect Low replied TO the toast, The
City Of New York"
Joseph II. ChOate, ambassador to the
court Of ST. James, was next intro
dGced After the applause had SUBJ
sided he spoke with his usual elO-
QU6nCe dwelling mostly on the recent
visit of the delegates of the New York
chamber OF commerce TO London. He
enlarged on the sympathy that had
been shown by the British people at
th5 time Of the death OF President Nc
Kinley anG said that not only had the
symp tiny been manifested almost ev-
cry hour for days after that event by
royalty. but that all classes were quite
o. c0rrrrr-Frr1 n view of chose for+e
Mr.. Choate IT, ught this government
justified in tmaking that England's
gief was an expression of national
syn pathy.
Dr. Choate was followed By Senator
McLaUrin Of South Carolina, who spoke
10 the toast Of THE Monroe Doctrine
o. the Twentieth Century" The SEN
atOr's address was very well received
and be was frenue LlY anplauded