The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-20
WORLDLY IDE PEACE
IS PLEA OF ROOT
America Urged to Take Initiative
in New Diplomacy by the
Secretary.

Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 2O.-A world
wide peace, substantial and enduring,
made possible by closer commercial
and friendly relations between nations,
was the keynote Of a notable speech
delivered here last night by Elihu Root,
Root, the diplomatic representatives Of
five Latin American republics made
speeches along the same line, offering
trade extension between the countries,
of North and South America as a
means Of bringing these countries into
closer and lasting relations.
The occasion was the twelfth annual
banquet given by the Kansas City
Commercial club in commemoration of
the signing of the John Jay CONNER
cial treaty.
Besides Secretary Root, the speakers,
in the order of their rank were: Igna-
clio Calderon, minister Of Bolivia; Fee
lipe Pardo, minister of Peru; Enrique
Cortes, minister of Colombia; Sylvino
Gurge1 Do Amaril, first secretary Of
the Brazilian legation; Alberto Yoach-
am, charge d 'affaires of the Chilean
legation; John Barrett, United States
minister to Colombia; s-,----
DR.. William Jay Schieffelin Of New
York, great grandson of John Jay,
spoke to the toast "The Value Of the
Life and Example Of John jay
E. II. Hartman, president Of the
Union Pacific railway talked informal
ly on trade conditions generally.
Secretary Root, whose subject was
fsOur. trade relations with South
America" spoke in part as follows:
Time to Hark Back.
"Since John Jay made the tariff
treaty which is commemorated by the
annual dinner of this club, the United
States has passed thru a period Of
comparative isolation and indifference
in foreign affairs. The fathers Of the
colonists, were naturally familiar with
European affairs. The whole course Of
colonial life, followed by the French al
lance and the early wars Of Great
Britain was one Of intimate relation
with Europe.
The young republic, bounded on the
north by the British provinces, on the
south by Florida and Louisiana, the
possessions of Spain and France, and
to the west by savage tribes under for
eign influence; the navigation of the
Mississippi blocked at the mouth by
foreign guns and with an extensive
~ alive to foreign influence and the
course Of foreign diplomacy; but when
our southern and western borders were
relieved from these influences and the
end Of the exhaustive Napoleonic
wars had led Europe to turn its
strength toward it's own internal affairs
and the colonization and trade Of the
orient had begun to absorb the surplus
activity Of Europe, we turned our at
tention to our own internal matters
and for a long period ceased to take
much note of what was going on
abroad, or to be much concerned with
the way in which it might affect us.
Now, however, our growth has been so
great as to bring us again on the wild
er field of the world s trade and con-
structive enterprise into contact with
all the great and active nations Of
J Trade as the Prize. j
tsWe have entered anew, whether We
will or not, by the necessities of our
Development. into the field of intimate
earth. It is a field in which the guild
ing principle laid down by Washing
ton, of Friendship for all, with ell
tangling alliances with none,' is as
wise rule Of conduct as it was in
Washington's time. It is as true now
as it was then that Europe has certain
primary interests in which we are not
concerned, and into which we should
it is a field in which we care no longer
to be Indifferent or to be ignorant, for
in it the interests Of our vast produc-
ton and trade are vitality concerned;
and, in it, we have responsibilities and
duties, duties to civilization and to
humanity, which we cannot escape if
we would and which the conscience Of
America will not permit us to escape
if we could.
America Set Example.
"In this time of vast immigration,
of international investment and owner
ship. Of opportunities for enterprise
and of enlarged peaceful intercourse,
and, above all, of steadily progressing
popular government, new diplomacy
has found place. It is a representa-
tive diplomacy and answers not to the
judgments of courts or sovereigns, but
es. It grows continually more true that
the sentiments, feelings and opinions of
the people determine policies; decide
upon the issues Of peace and war, and
establish those sympathies between ma
tions which are more powerful than
written and signed treaties of alliance.
America has given to the world
an example Of a democracy made up of
individuals capable of that self -control
and self-restraint which enables the
defeated contestants in most excited
political controversy to accept peace
fully the Judgment of the majority and
leads the entire community, however
keen may be its feelings, to bow with
respect to judicial Judgment.
The 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-
tlonai intercourse of mankind.
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