The San Francisco call., 1905-05-24
REID ON DUTIES
OF EMBASSADOR
Americas New Representa-
tive to st. James Guest
at a Farewell Dinner
TALKS OF BIG STICK
Says the Nation Uses It
Only to Preserve and
Protect It's Interests
Special Dispatch to The Call.


NEW YORK, May 23.-Whitelaw Reid
who will soon so to London as Embassa-
dor to the Court of st. James, was the
guest of honor tonight at farewell din
ner given by the Republican Club: In
attendance were more than 800 prominent
Republicans. Reid spoke in. part as fol
lows:
do not enter upon the discharge of my
be known in the Embassy. When William j.
Bryan expressed his thanks for treatment at
our Embassies. which was plainly due TO q
man whom nearly half the American people
had more than once approved for their highest
ofnce. and when the President Responded that
II any Embassador had failed to extend such
treatment In such case his shift would have
Deen short, there was fit recognition of what
had been the UNIFORM policy of our Government
ana what 1t should always remain.
Would 1t be trespassing on too delicate
ground II ! ventured to suggest that the con-
verse ought to be true; that there ought to be
no politics at home in dealing with the En-
bassys work?
Reld referred humorouSly to the exac-
ton made upon the ambassador to Great
Britain with regard to public speeches,
and added:
Really, gentlemen however much appear
ances may sometimes tend to contrary view.
the work OF speechmaking is not the chief duty
Tor which the country sends out it's Embassa-
dor' NOBODY needs now to be told Of clasping
nanoS across the sea. We know that Great
Britain and the United States in the nature
OF things, do inevitably sustain peculiar rela-
tions to each other not held by either with
any other nation
There is duty of an ambassador more
important even than prompting good will. An
ambassador is sent to look after the interests
or his own country. Happy is his lot if the
interests of the country that sends him abroad
and those of the country to which he Is sent
are not conflicting. If. unhappily, these events
are found to conflict. the most injurious and
most treacherous fault ambassador can
commit Is to sacrifice the interests of his own
country In the deliberate and sordid hope of
remaining persona grata in the country in
which he temporarily resides.
1t is a happy and illuminating phrase Of our
vein. he told that our foreign policy CON
sists chiefly of the golden rule and the Monroe
doctrine" We need only add the Dix doc
trtne: - If any man hauls down the American n
nag, shoot him the spot
Neither that nor the Monroe doctrine is in
ternational law, but both sure to remain
indefinitely fundamental parts of American in
ternatlonal policy. Our use for the 'big
stick is much the same as that of the quiet
citizen-to keep off footpads and the dogs. We
covet no nations land or possessions. We seek
only to preserve and protect our own. We have
passionate preference, manifested on all suit
able occasions through more than half GEN.
tury. for doing this whenever practicable by
international arrangement rather than by war.
Sir Percy Anderson, speaking for Sir
Henry Mortimer Durand, the British EN-
bassador, corfplimented the American
people upon their selection of their EN-
bassador.