The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-20
= PEACE INSURES
WORLD WIDE
PROSPERITY"
Root Strikes Sympathetic
Chord in Hearts Of Our
Latin-American Neighbors
CLOSER RELATIONS
WOULD BETTER ALI
Epoch-Making Speeches by
Men Of Mark at the Kan
sas City Commercial Club

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KANSAS CITY, Nov. ia world
wide peace. substantial and. enduring,
made possible by closer commercial and
friendly relations between nations, was
the keynote of a notable speech de-
Iivered here tonight by EIfhu Root, Sec
retary of State. Following Root the
diplomatic representative of Latin
American republics made speeches
along the same lines. Offering trade
extension between the countries of
North and South America as means of
bringing these countries into closer
and lasting Friendship.
The occasion was the twelfth annual
banquet given by the Kansas City Com
mercial Club in commemoration of the
signing Of the John Jay commercial
treaty. Five hundred plotes We're laid
and many notable persons were pres
ent
Besides Secretary Root the speakers,
in the order Of their rank. were Igna-
clio Calderon. Minister OF Bolivia; Fe-
lipe Pardo. Minister Of Peru: Enrique
Cortes. Minister Of Colombia; sylvino
Gurga de Amaral, first secretary of the
Brazilian legation; Alberto Yoacham.
Chare dAfaires Of the Chilean lega-
ton: John Barrett. American Minister
to Colombia: DR.. william Jay schief-
hein. New York. great-grandson Of
John Jay. who spoke to the toazt The
value Of the Life and Example Of
John Jay: E. H Hartman. president
Of the Union Pacific Railroad. who
talked Informally on trade conditions
generally.
SECRETARY ROOTS ADDRESS
Secretary Root who addressed him
self to the toast Our Relations With
South America" said in part:
Europe has certain primary inter
ests in which we are not concerned
and into which we should not permit
ourselves to be drawn, yet it is a field
in which we care no longer to be in
different or TO be ignorant, for in it
the interests Of our vast production
and trade are vitally concerned, and
in il we have responsibilities and du-
ties. duties TO civilization and to hu-
manity. which we cannot escape if we
would and which the conscience of
America viii not permit US to escape
If we could.
STUDY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
"A new responsibility rests upon the
people whose representatives answer
to their viii in shaping their treat
rnent Of foreign nations The thought
ful men Of every governing people
have a duty TO inform themselves care
fully and thoroughly; to think soberly
and clearly and to express themselves
temperately and wisely upon foreign
affairs We already realize that tn,
same rules Of right conduct which OBJ
tain in our individual intercourse witt
each other apply also TO our internal
political action and the exercises oi
the power of government. We
realize that what is wrong and tc
be condemned in the conduct of mar
TO man is wrong and should be con
demned in the conduct of public Off
GERS and in the conduct Of politicians
IN the relations between nations which
the great body of the people now con
troll there should be a general. all
prevailing and controlling sense thai
the same rules OF conduct ought to be
followed Nations have souls and con
sciences as truly as individual citizens
To be narrow and hard. selfish and
grasping. TO be arrogant toward the
weak and timid in maintaining tn,
right against the strong. TO be unwill.
ing to give kindly consideration to th,
rights and interests and feelings OF
others. to be without sympathy or help
fulness for the rest of mankind-al
these things make an individual mar
despised and hated in the community
CONSIDER INTERESTS OF OTHERS
we should take the same pains L
help our country aEoid them that W,
would take TO avoid them ourselves
The greater part of the controversial.
and wars between nations arise from
the tendency Of the people Of each ma.
ton TO assume that upon every ques.
ton which arises all the right is upo-
their own side and to insist upon having
their own way without that deliberate
and kindly consideration of the right.
and interests Of the other side of tn,
question which just man would give
to his neighbor.
Mediation and arbitration are usefu
methods. Of solving international con
troversies without recourse 10 war. bu
the true preventive Of war is the Will
fngness Of the people Of the world t