The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-11-22
Kansas City Commercial Club Law.
ishly Entertains Visitors of In
ternational Prominence.
SECRETARY ROOT WAS GUEST OF HONOR
In Addition to the Cabinet Member
Many Diplomats From south
American Countries Were Pres
ent-E. II. Hartman, the Rail-
road Masnate, Also Attended.

uesbeu anywhere on tne COntiucnt ouS
side Of the seat Of government, the
Commercial club Monday night cele-
brated the signing Of the John Jay
treaty by banquet at the Midland
hotel It was the twelfth annual din
ner of the club, marking the nineteenth
year of It's own existence.
To quote from the speech of the
president Of the Commercial club,
Mr.. o. v. Dodge. there were present
In the banquet room "the premier Of
the country. one of the greatest rail-
road presidents, direct descendant
Of John Jay. the first chief justice
Of the United States; six diplomats
from South American republics;
members Of our own army and navy;
law makers and justices who are to
interpret the laws; governors of con-
tiguous states and representatives of
Oklahoma, soon to be entitled to full
representative on the flag"
The important occasion had ben am
ply provided for. Special trains and
special cars had brought e. II. Harri-
man, Secretary Root and the other
distinguished guests from Washington
and New York to Kansas City.
The principal interest centered in
the speeches of Secretary Root and
representatives of South American
countries present on a mission to pro-
duce closer commercial relations with
our southern neighbors.
Mr. Root spoke in part as follows:
Since John Jay made the tariff
treaty which Is commemorated by the
annual dinner of this club, the Unitel
States has passed through period of
| comparative isolation and indifference
In foreign affairs. The fathers of the
republic who In their early lives were
| colonists were naturally familiar with
European affairs. The whole course
of colonial life, followed by the French
alliance 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 say
age tribes under foreign influence;
the navigation of the Mississippi block
ed at the mouth by foreign guns mad
with an extensive ocean-boEle com
merce, had to be keenly alive to for.
eign Influence and the course of for
eign diplomacy; but when our southern
| and western borders were relieved
fro mthese influences and the end of
the exhaustive Napoleonic wars had
! led Europe to turn its struength to-
ward its own internal affairs and the
, colonization and trade of the Orient
! had begun to absorb the surplus ac-
| tivity of Europe, we turned our atten-
/ ton to our own internal matters and
| for 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 wider
| field Of the worlds trade and construc.
! tive enterprise into contact with all
the great and active nations of man
! kind. We have entered anew, whether
we will or not, by the necessities of our
development, into the field of intimate
relations with all the nations of the
earth. 1t is 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
| time.
Nations have souls and consciences
as truly as individual citizens. The
life of the just and faithful and kind
ly man who is respected and beloved
by his neighbors is 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 grasping, to be AFRO
&gnt toward the weak and, timid in
maintaining the right against the
strong, to be unwilling to give kindly
consideration to the rights and inter
ests and feelings Of others. to be with
out sympathy or helpfulness for the
resi- Of mankind, ALI these thingz
make, an individual man despised and
hated In his community. We should
take the same pains to help our coun'
try avoid them that we would take ID
avoid them ourselves.
Minister Calderon of Bolivia said in
part:
Il wish. to express my satisfaction
with this progressive city. which shows
the development of the western portion
Of this country. Bolivia has the friend
lest feelings towards the United
States. Mr.. Root, not only on account
OF his worthy position and his person
Al attachments, but by the way he ex
pressed his feelings in South America
dispelled any misunderstanding that
might have been brought about by
wrong reports of the newspapers.