The Mena weekly star., 1906-11-22
MENA ARK, NOVEMBER 22, 1906.
THEIR TWELFTH BANQUET.
Kansas City Commercial Club Lav. ishly Entertains Visitors of h.
 ternational Prominence.
SECRETARY ROOT WAS GUEST OF HOAOp
Tn Addition to the Cabinet Member Many Diplomats From south American Countries Were Pres ent-fc. II. Hartman, the Rail- road Magnate, Also Attended.

American Countries Were Pres ent-fc. II. Hartman, the Rail- road Magnate, Also Attended. Kansas City, Mo, Nov. 21.-Attend- ed by such ceremony as is seldom wit messed anywhere on the continent out 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 per of the club. marking the nineteenth l year of it's own existence.
 To quote from the speech of the president of the Commercial club, ] MT. o. V. Dodge, there were present I in the banquet room the premier Of 1 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; 1 law makers and justices who are to 1 interpret the laws; governors of con 1 tiguous states and representatives of l Oklahoma, soon to be entitled to full representative on the flag"
 The important occasion had ben am ply provided for. Special trains ant l special cars had brought E. H. Harri- man, Secretary Root and the other distinguished guests from Washington and New York to Kansas City
 The principal interest centered in l the speeches of Secretary Root and representatives of South American countries present on a mission to pro I duce closer commercial relations with our southern neighbors
 MT. 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 l States has passed through period of comparative isolation and indifference 1 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 1 alliance and the early wars of Great l 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-borne com merce, had to be keenly alive to for | eign influence and the course of for. 1 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 it's struength to ward it's own internal affairs and the | colonization and trade of the Orient I had begun to absorb the surplus ac' | tivity of Europe, we turned our atten- tion to our own internal matters and l for long period ceased to take much 1 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. It is field in which the guid | ing principle laid down by Washington of friendship for all with entangling alliances with none, is as wise a rule of conduct as it was in Washington s time.
 Nations have souls and consciences as truly as individual citizens. The fife 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 it's relations to all other countries. To be narrow and hard. selfish and grasping, to be arro | agnt toward the weak and timid ir maintaining the right against the strong, to be unwilling to give kindly 1 consideration to the rights and inter ests and feelings of others, to be with | out sympathy or helpfulness for the rest of mankind,--all these things 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 te avoid them ourselves.
 Minister Calderon of Bolivia said in
 part:
 T wish to express my satisfaction
 with this progressive city, which shows
 the development of the western portion
 of this country. Bolivia has the friend
 Hest feelings towards the United
 States. MT. Root, not only on account of his worthy position and his person
 al attainments, but by the way he ex
 pressed his feelings in South America
 dispelled any misunderstanding that might have been brought about by l wrong reports of the newspapers.
 Muskogee. I. T., Nov. 21-The
 whole of Indian territory is covered
 with sleet, wires are down, train,
 delayed, and there is much suffer