Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-12-05
HAY ON DIPLOMACY.
United States Guided by Monroe
Doctrine and Golden Rule.
Secretary of state Outlines Plans of
Mckinley which Are Now Being
Carried Out by His Sue
cessOr,

STANDING IN tne pldct ol IesioehI
Mckinley, who just before his assas-
sination accepted an invitation to be
present, Secretary of State John Hay
spoke to the guests at the one hundred
and thirty-third banquet of the New
York chamber of commerce Tuesday
evening, Novmber 10, on "Our Diplo-
macy" describing the plans of the
murdered president which President
Roosevelt, aided by the diplomatic
corps, is striving to consummate. lie
said:
"I am asked to say something about our
diplomacy There was a time when dipIo-
macy was a 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 experience of diplomatic
life, which now covers more years thah
like to look back upon and in the far
greater record of American diplomacy,
which / have read and studied, ! can say
without hesitation that We have generally
told suuarely what we wanted, announced
early n negotiation what we were willing
to give, and allowed the other side to ac-
cept or reject our terms. During the time
which / have been prominently concerned
in our foreign relations can also say that
we have been met by the representatives
of other powers in the same spirit of frank
ness and sincerity.
LAS to the measure of success which our
recent diplomacy has met with, II is diff
cult, If not impossible. for me 70 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 diplomatic affairs,
Simple Chart the Safest
''But if we are not permitted to boast
of 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 expression Of our
rule of conduct 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 re-
publics to the south of us are perfectly
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 ter
ritory than we covet the mountains of the
moon.
"As to what we have tried to do-what
we are still trying to do-in the general
field of diplomacy, there is no reason for
doubt on the one hand or retlcence on the
other. President Mckinley in his mes
sages during the last four years has made
the subject perfectly clear. We have
striven, on the lines laid down by Wash
ington, to cultivate friendly relations with
all powers, but not to take part in the
formation of groups or combinations
among them. A position of complete in
dependence is not incompatible with rela-
tions involving, not friendship alone, but
concurrent action as well in important
emergencies.
First of All. Peace.
eve have kept always In view the fact
that we are preemin emily a peace-loving
people; that our normal activities are in
the direction of trade and commerce; that
the vast development of our Industries
imperatively demands that we shall not
only regain and confirm our hold on our
present markets. but seek constantly by
all honorable means to extend our com
mercial interests in every practicable d.
rection. 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 spir-
II of protection to our own industries, and
yet mutually advantageous to ourselves
and our neighbors. In the same spirit W.
have sought successfully to induce all
the great powers to unite in a recognition
of the general principle of equality of COM
mercial access and opportunity 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 sat
tsfied
Vast Field I'm the Pacific
eve consider our interests ~ the Pacific
ocean as great now as those of any other
power and destined to indefinite develop
ment. We have opened our doors to the
people of Hawaii; We have accepted the
responsibility of the Philippines which
providence imposed upon us; we have put
an end to embarrassing conditions in which
We were involved in Samoa.
Next in order will come a Pacific cable
and an isthmian canal for the use of all
well-disposed peoples, but under exclusive
American ownership and American control
of both of which great enterprises Pres
ident Mckinley and President Roosevelt
nave been the energetic and consistent
champions.
Sure as we are of our rights in these
matters, convinced as we are of the au-
thenticity of the vision which has led us
thus far and still beckons US forward /
| can yet assure you that so long as the ad-
ministration of your affairs remains in
hands as strong and skillful as those to
which they have been and are now con-
fded, there will be no more surrender of
our rights than there will be violation of
the rights of others
THE president to whom you have given
your invaluable trust and condolences like
mis- now immortal predecessor. is as in
capable of bullying strong power as he
Is OF wronging a weak one. He feels and
| knows-for has he not tested 1t in. the
currents of heady fight as well as in the
! toilsome work 6f administration THAT
the nation over whose destinies he pre-
sides has a giants strength in the works
OF war as In the works of peace.
VIII Not Abuse His Power.
But that consciousness of strength
brings with it no temptation to do injury
TO any power on earth, the produest or the
| humblest We frankly confess we seek
! the friendship of all the powers: we want
to trade with all peoples; we are conscious
of resources that will make our commerce
| a source of advantage to them and also
| profit to ourselves. But no wantonness or
! strength will ever induce US TO drive hard
! bargain with another nation because 1t is
! weak nor will any fear of ignoble crit
! lcism tempt us to insult or defy great
power because it is strong, or even because
| 1t Is friendly.
The attitude of our diplomacy may be
! indicated in text of Scripture which
Franklin-the first and greatest of our
| olplomats-tells us passed through his
mind when he was presented at the court
| OF versailles. 1t was text his father use d
| to quote to him in the old candle shop in
! Boston when he was boy 'Seest thou a