The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-20
ROOT ON THE RULES OF PEACE
MORAL CODE FOR NATIONS SAME
AS THAT FOR INDIVIDUA AIS.
Secretary Of state Urges That zoo Tenn
per. Fair Dealing and RecOs nitiOn Of
Rights OF Others should Mark and Cow
ern All Our International Dealin 81.

per. Fair Dealing and Rcc0 gnItiOn Of
Rights OF Otherss should Mark and GOV.
ern All Our International Dealings
mercial Club banquet tonight Elihu Root,
Secretary of State, spoke or Our Relations
With South America He said in part:
Since John Jay made the tariff treaty
which is commemorated by the annual
dinner Of this club the United States has
passed through a period Of comparative
isolation and indifference in foreign affairs.
The fathers Of the republic who in their
early livee were colonists were naturally
familiar with European affairs. The whole
course of Colonial life 70 lowed by the French
alliance and the early wars of Great Britain
was one Of intimate relation with Europe.
But our southern and western borders
were relieved from these influences end the
end Of the exhaustive Nepoleonic wars
had led Europe TO turn its strength toward
its own internal affairs. We turned our
attention to our own internal matters and
for a long period ceased 10 take much note
Of what was going OH 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 upon the WIDER
field Of the worlds trade and our construct
i've enterprise into contact with all the great
and active nations of mankind. We have
entered anew, whether we will or not, by
the necessities of our development into the
field of intimate relations with all the ma
tons of the earth.
1T is as true now as il was then that
Europe has certain primary interests in
which vrn ira not OnnoarnAd and into nhanh
we should not permit ourselves to be drawn,
vet 1t is a field in which we care no longer
to be Indifferent or % be ignorant, fer in
II the interests Of our vast productions
and trade are vitality concerned, and in il
we have responsibilities and duties. duties
to civilization and to humanity which
We cannot escape if WI would and which
the conscience OF America will not permit
us to escape il we would.
"A new responsibility rests upon the
people. whose representatives answer to
their will in shaping their treatment of
foreign nations. The thoughtful men of
every self-governing people should, as a
duty, inform themselves carefully and
thoroughly: think soberly and clearly
and express themselves temporarily and
wisely pom foreign ~affairss. We already
realize hat the tsame rules of right
conduct which obtain in individual
intercourse with each other will apply also
to our internal political action.
wv ANoAANC NlAut WiNdN II dIll I u
be condemned in the conduct of man 10
man is wrong and TO be condemned in the
conduct of public officers and in the CON
duct of politicians. In the relations be-
tween nations which the great body of
the people now control, there should be "A
general, all prevailing and controlling
sense that the same rules of conduct ought
to be followed. Nations have souls and
consciences "a truly az individual citi-
zens: The life of the just and faithful and
HInAlNy man uvhn - rleKNantAd anil h,l,vAl
by his neighbors II the type Of what every
citizen should wish his own country TO be
in its relations to all other countries.
TO be narrow and hard, selfish and
CRASHING, to be arrog mt toward the weak
and timid in maintaining the rig I against
the strong; TO be unwilling TO give kindly
considerat on to the rights and interests and
feelings of others, to tie without sympathy
or helpfulness for the rest Of mankind-all
these things make an in ividual nan de-
+, pissed and hated in the community. We
shouldNtake the same rains to help our coun-
try avoid them that We would take to avoid
them ourselves. q IN
The greater part OF the controversies
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 upon their own side.
ond to insist upon having their own way
without that deliberate and kindly con-
Sideration for the rights and interests OF
the other side Of the question which a just
man would give 20 his %neighbOr.
America has given to the world an eX-
ample Of q democracy made up OF indi-
viduals capable of that self-oontrol and
self-restraint which enables the defeated
contestants in n most excited political
controversy 10 accept peacefully the judg-
ment Of the majority and leads the entire
community. howeS er deep may he it, feel
ings. to bow with respect to judicial judg-
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