New-York tribune., 1903-01-23
O. H PLATT SPEAKS AT NEW-HAVEN.
Stirring Address by Senator Before Bar
Association.


the New-Haven Bar Association was helo tl.ln
evening with the largest attendance for many
wears There few absentees, nearlS one ii
dred and seventy-ive lawyers peihs pieso"
United States Senator .Orvilie IL Piatt "aS o~T
the sneakers and most of the judges OF tne Con
necticut Supreme Court of Errors ard superior
Court were also guests
states Attorney Williams acted toastmaster-
He introduced Judge Torrance. who respohoeu ~
the toast The Supreme Court of Errors
Senator Platt followed Judge Torrance II was
some moments before he was able to proceed so
great was the applause. He said in part
Whatever may have been the former policy pol i,o2t OF
this that IL m cannot D IN justice to itself
or justice to the world reel ed nsfions
Until very recently it has been supposed ana as
serted that true policy was one OF ds4iS ard io
foreign states might be apty expressed IN IN @ rng
homely phrase, Let us alone ana we WIN 'e'
alone
PRECISELY how this notion grew up it Is perhaps
difficult to explain" said the Senator. who added
that certain oft quoted utterances OF Nashlheto'
and Jefferson did not in any way procldlih 'iie III
difference of the United States as to what might
take nlace in the world. nor car they sald Ne,
obe Justly cited as authority for the doctrine 'hat
We should in no way take part IN such aIaIs'
He continued:
nation has no right to live to itself al9ne nc
That seshness IS right seshne2ss IS in 1dTon as IS
as much worse selhshness IN tHe ne eentis i than
fhe nation is stronger and more lhhueh'ldi 'i'o'
the cbanee with ghtninglike rapidty in the
had oltgroyn the clothes OF chiidhood ana I'd
nFrIgd its dfies s' Whe we have grown have giant
strength the world sttl thought OF ana at last
Tbe nowers had overlooked the fact that we nad a
naTy, h wcre UI; for show until one morning in 1898
as the daylight revealed tte CITY oL nated the
the Sh4[es m reszation Of the fact that the United
states was heneeforth to be power a be m reckoned
With From that moment all was changed
Altar referring to international events which have
taken place since the battle OF Mania BAY i'''o
j the uprising in China, the efforts looking 10 the
ar+itiop and appropriation of that nation. the part
+be Tinted States played in the preservation OF 1e
Integrity of the Chinese Empire and the neu'rau'S
of this country during the Boer war, the senator
continued
Who cannot see that If We had nrds eaIfF affaiTs
he terrible Christian ssacreS in armenia leI Ip
h have t6e n9sn poson then that we the powers
arng IN concert would have surely ilsteneo 70 V
adyGg bl ana a0d pIisge and xiii Armenian christians
When the power did come TO T< to make inden-
nifty for the destruction 81 an her bistory think
When Turkey had been compelled to answer Tor us
wrongful acts
Reference was made to Secretary Hays note of
nrotes to the powers against the treatment oi t's
Jews by Rumania to the Venezuelan imorogho'
"a tho nIacfng of that matter with The Hague
tribunal and to other great international events III
which the United States had acted potent par 4
and then Senator Platt said:
yvbethor we approve of the Spanish war or are
for il it's results have clothed us with power
10 direct largely the affairs or the W0Fi3 r. r1d
before in our history in the history OF the woriq
Tras war waged and concluded with resutS so 5u-
vantaeeous to mankind, and in my hunlpie i JIioS
mont its remote consequences are TO ne OF lncdlcu
liable benefit all nations We should 2ccep5 + me
mower which come to us with huInllltN ana iol
Ipith boastng Now that this nation OF elshty
millions of people the greatest ana strongest lH
the world has been clothed with power as tne
uorId's umpire we must to it that that power
is exercised unselfishy. hUmanely, dscreetly and
beneficially. , -. .,-o,,.,L o,,~ ,,e1r
influence the whole world shall move onward 70
the day when peace. and not war. shall oe the
purpose of the nations: that education ana enhgnt-
enment the recognition of human rights ana the
extension of the principles of our own government
shall raise mankind to new and higher Levels anI
so to fulfilling the designs of the infinite Father oil
all men?
The other speakers were Judge Simeon f. Bald
win of the United States Court; Judge William s.
| Case of the Superior Court; former Governor
| Charles IngersolI Stephen w Kellogg. James T.
| Wheeler. Judge Lynde Harrison, and George H.