The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-24
REID ON OUR ENJOYS WORK.
iOTHER DUTIES THAN THAT or
JOLLlING FOREIGNERS.
Ambass adOr to England Dlned ny Re.
publican club Would Add Dix do ctrine
TO the Monroe Doctrine and the Gol.
den RuIe-Depcw Says Pay I'm, More.

land was continued last night, when the
Republican Club gave dinner in his honor
at the clubhouse in West Forteth street
The dining room on the tenth floor was
hands omely decorated with the national
colors the Union Jack and the Stars and
Stripes being draped over the table of
honor.
Louis Stern, president Of the club, pre-
sided. Among the guests were Senator
Depew, Sir Percy l.. Sanderson, Gen. F. D.
Grant, Charles Emory Smith, Cornelius n
Bliss, Edward Lauterbach, the Rev. DR..
Macarthur George W. Smalley. Oscar s.
Stratus, W. H. McElroy and John Barnett.
After welcoming the guests Mr.. Stern pro-
posed a toast to the Ambassador to the
Court of st. james which was drunk stand
ing. In the course of his remarks Mr.. Reid
said:
AT the dinner of the Gridiron Club ia
Washington last winter a newspaper man
WIS placed under hypnotic influence, told
that he was the American Ambassador at
the Court OF st. James, and instructed to
4 make an after dinner speech for London
banquet. He promptly began; Cen tie
men, blood is thicker than water. Oh,
how we love our kinsfolk in the land Of our
ancestors! Hands across the sea Com
mon language, common blood, common
literature, the supremacy OF the Anglo
Saxon race. We are brothers all. Three
cheers for the King
nv, Se,l.lI I NJ 't'ose aie IT, pi
,,sed 10 son, , ~ them onrseves.e;n fact
IT, IL Va III, 80 49, ~ .hs-,, 1.
no harm in using them again. But az
means for persuading the people of the two
countries to mutual good will they have
day to be part of the working tools of di-
plomacy on either side of the Atlantic
Eoooay hctus !io~ " u" Coiu VI clasp
ins Iahos across tne sas' or u coiincn
ptooo, or colnii'on Iit ., - ci hnoM
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III INC mature W liines' w ihe Nnapty sus
taIn pecunar reatlols 10 eacn otner nor
helo py enner WIN any olneI natlon lnat
.hey are now on very gooo Tits IT, ps.eer
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tuis tnne On .ne oet.er my kho" eacn
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will-hiehly important as we all consider
that to be. The very people and Govern
meut to whom he is sent would recognize
the superior and imperative nature Of this
other duty An Ambassador is sent to
look after the interests of his own country.
Hapry his lot If the interests of the country
that sends him and those of the country
to which he is sent are not conflicting.
That l. an ideal state very nearly approached
in this case at this moment. but not to be
counted on anywhere definitely as a per-
manence IT, unhappily these interests are
ever found to conflict the most injurious
and the most trea cherous fault an Ambassa-
dor can commit is to sacrifice or imperil
the interests of his own country. whether
merely through judgment warped by the
subtle influence of his foreign associations
or in the deliberate and sordid hope of re-
naming Jerstnd lrota in the country in
which he temporarily resides.
We can Never afford to lose sight of two
facts about the real business Of our Am
hassado rsSthat their first duty Is to lcok
after th& interests of their own country
and that the greatest Of these interests is.
Pf,ow and always, peace the peace Of JUS
tice
1T was happy and Illuminating phrase
Of o,lr great Secretary of State when in