The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02

Mr.. Hay guided the negotiations by which
England frustrated the effort OF the Powers
TO make representations on behalf OF Spain;
Mr.. Hays public addr ssos In England
We're few, but they added to the already
brilliant reputation of the embassy,
CAREER IN WORLD POLITICS.
On his recall from Great Britain to sue
coed Secretary Day, at the end OF the
Spanish War, Mr. Hay entered upon the
career in international politics which has
the councils Of he world. In seven year!
he negotiated more than fifty treaties of
all degrees Of importance.
Though not all Of his work had the COM
matter Of the first Hay auncefote treaty
supeseding the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
no one ever pretended that Mr.. Hay had
not moved diplomatic mountains hitherto
regarded as anchored fast to the very
center of the earth
His diplomatic triumphs followed so
close one upon the other that the country
ceased to comment on them and accepted
them as part of the routine of the Secro-
tary's responsibilities. Foreign journals,
sometimes in no good temper, against
the ease with which Mr.. Hay accomplished
his ends.
Whether he was convincing the Cuban
Government of the wisdom of its adoption
Of a reciprocity treaty in 1903 or was estab-
fishing the open door principle in China
in the same year, it was Mr.. Hays part to
lead the way through the maze Of prece-
dents and around the pitfalls Of inter
national jealousies, while the rest Of the
ing, half afraid and smiling with salts
faction.
HIS WORK FOR CHINA.
Mr.. Hay got the confidence of the much
abused Chinese by drawing back from
the greedy rush for indemnity loot al ter
tha toly 30 Ix,. la,-t tho alan,
previous to the fall, by which the Ameri-
can forces, though acting simultaneously
with those of other nations, were not com
mitted to any untraditional entangling
alliance with any or all of them.
He stood against the world for the in
ened but practically won have been sacr1-
feed had it not been for his patient
championship of the doctrine that China
was no longer a field for spoliation. When
into private avenue TO- aggression and
domination Mr.. Hay succeeded in framing
circular note OF protest to the powers
which. though not regarded with full re-
speCt by Russia, has since been enforced,
in effect, by Japanese arms.
His part in the settlement of the protracted
Alaskan boundary dispute and his quoting
of the Venezuelan trouble in 1923 also
added to his reputation as dipomatist
Of the highest order.
STUCK TO HIS POST.
There was time not very long after
Mr.. Roosevelts inaugu ration when the
rumor got abroad that Mr. Hay desired to
give up his portfolio and rest. President
Roosevelt begged him to remain, feeling
that, however many slight differences there
might be between himself and the Score
tary of State in ma alters of procedure, and
particularly in the time to be taken in any
given procedure, he could not well spare
MIR. Hays grasp of the manifold difficulties
which have confronted the Administration
abroad
thousand interests throughout the
country, brought pressure, up,on Mr., Hay
possibly permit him.. That he sacrificed
This life to the sense Of the duty thus borne
lin upon him is the feeling of many Of those
who knew him best. Mr.. Hay was very
the wounds which adverse and unkind or
unfair comment gave him. The fuss made
by critics of the Administration in the
Panama negotiations cut him to the quick.
Soon after the second inauguration OF
President Roosevelt last spring. MIR, Hay
went al road broken in health He had SO
concealed his weakness from the pu lie
that the first intimation of the seriousness
Of his condition came when he tainted at the
gangplank Of the steamer on which he sailed
and was carried atoard.
1t was reported that his recovery was
complete, but when he returned late last
month he appeared to he in poor health
A special messenger from the. President
met him on the steamer down the Lay, and
it was generally assumed that the message
had to do with the pending effort to bring
about peace in the Far East
Plunging thus into the thick Of his duties,
undertaking a task more serious than any
he had essayed. he found himself far less
summer home at Lake SunapAe on June -.
The recognition Of Mr.. Hays services
to his country and to English letters have
not been limited to his own country. A. B.
Hart professor of history at Harvard, said
of Mr.. Hay not long ago:
Just as Bismarck was in his day, John
Hay is to-day the dean Of all diplomats.
Justice Brewer Of the Supreme Court
said in 1903 that in place of the, sneered at
shirt sleeves dil lomacy which had been
attributed to this country, John Hay has
created the John Hay type of diplomacy,
which was tactful without untrnthfuness,
firm without menace, and direct without
brutality.
The following institutions had given
him the degree Of doctor of laws: Brown.
Princeton. Western Reserve, Dartmouth
and Yale. He was a trustee of the Carnegie
Institution.
HIS QUIET HOME LIFE.
Mr.. Hays home life was Of the quetest.
At his bachelor dinner, in 1874, friend said
to him:
How long Will your honeymoon be-"
1T will last for the rest of my life, think
he said, quietly.
His closest friends believe that he prophe-
sled truly. The great house in Washington
was built as home rather than as place of
elaborate entertainment. 1fo few who
were intimate thera were deeply impressed
with the community Of heart and interest,
quite beyond speech. which existed between
Mr.. Hay and his wife With Perfect Under
standing each of tn other they sat for
hours content and placid in one another's
company without exchanging word.
Mr. and Mrs. Hay had four children.
The eldest, Adelbert, was killed in an acct
dent at Yale College few years ago. There
dsshaeTs Mr n payne Whitney and ud sp~
James W. Wadsworth. Jr. Mr.. Hay so
managed his affairs that the fortune of more
than million dollars left him by his father
in-law has been increased all through his
lifetime.
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