Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-20
Root Outlines Diplomatic Pol
icy of America Toward
All Nations
NO CAUSE FOR MORE WARS
United States Controls the Destiny Of
Other Nations-secretary Root De-
ivers Significant Address at the
Kansas City Banquet-FriendIy Ali
ances the Policy.


United States. the new world power for
peace with friendship for all and en-
tangling alliances with none" was the
keynote of Secretary Of State Roots
address here last night.
Three ENJOYS from South American
republics-Ignacio Calderon, minister
Of Bolivia; Felipe Pardo, minister OF
Peru. and Enrique cortes minister OF
Colombia--sat beside the secretary OF
state and applauded his sentiments.
Then in turn they spoke of the grow
ing wealth and power of their own re-
publcs and predicted closer friend
ship, political and commercial, between
the nations below Panama" and the
great republic.
The occasion was the twelfth annual
banquet given by the Kansas City
Commercial Club in commemoration of
the signing Of the John Jay commercial
treaty. Five hundred guests were
present, including Il. II. Hartman, the
railway magnate: S. M. FELTON,, pres
ident of the Alton system. and other
men prominent In high commercial cir
Giles.
When Secretary Root was introduce
ed as the guest Of honor of the evening,
it was several minutes before he could
begin his address. After reviewing the
earlier relations between the United
States and foreign nations, the secre-
tary Of state struck broader and deep
er note, saying:
1--WE have entered anew. whether we
development, into the field of intimate
relations with all the nations of the
earth. 1t is a field in which the guild
Ing principle laid down by Washington,
Of friendship for all. with entangling
alliances with none. is as wise rule
Of conduct as it was In Washington's
time. In this field we have duties to
civilization and to humanity which we
cannot escape If we would and which
the conscience of America will not per-
NIT us to escape If we could
I'm this time of vast immigration, of
International investment and owner
ship, a new diplomacy has found place.
1t answers not to the judgments Of
courts or sovereigns, but to the judg-
ment of great popular masses.
Nations have souls and consciences
as truly as individuals. The life of the
just and faithful and kindly man who
is respected and beloved by his neigh
. bors is the type of what every citizen
should wish his own country to be in
it's relations to all other countries. To
be narrow and hard, selfish and grasp
ing, to be arrogant toward the weak
and timid in maintaining the right
against the strong, to be unwilling to
give kindly consideration to the rights
and interests and feelings Of others,
to be without sympathy or helpful
ness for the right of mankind-all
these things make an individual man
despised or hated in the community.
We should take the same pains to help
our country avoid them that we would
take to avoid them ourselves.
"The greater part of the controver-
sizes and wars between nations arise
from the tendency of the people OF
each nation to assume that upon every
question which arises all the right IS
on their own side and to insist upon
having their own way without that
deliberate and kindly consideration OF
the rights and interests OF the other
side of the question which just man
would give to his neighbor.
america has given to the World an
example of a democracy made up OF
individuals capable Of that self-con-
troll and self-restraint which enables
the defeated contestants in a most ex-
cited political controversy to accept
peacefully the judgment of the major
ity and leads the entire community
however, keen may be it's feelings, 10
bow with respect to judicial Judg-
ment.
.sThe same spirit, reinforced by the
sentiment for humanity and the desire
to help the progress Of civilization, the
rule of peace and justice turnout the
world may exert powerful influence
not only upon our own affairs with
other nations but upon the interna-
tional intercourse of mankind.
Mediation and arbitration are use
full methods of solving international
controversies without recourse to war;
but the true preventive Of war is the
willingness Of the people Of the world
to be lust toward one another; the
strong desire Of the people of the
earth to be kind toward one another:
application of the same rules by all
men to their collective treatment Of
other nations which good citizens APP
ply to their individual treatment of
each other.
tvThe true and final antidote for war
is the lowest love of justice and peace
among the people who make war or
preserve peace"