Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-20
PROMINENT MEN
MIKE SPEECHES
KANSAS CITY CLUB GIVES
BANQUET
Secretary Of State EIlhu Root Re-
spends to the Toast "our Re-
lation with South
America"

KANSAS CITY, Mo, NOV io' ~
worldwide peace, substantial ana en-
during. made possible by cloer COIL
mercial and friendly relations petween !,
nations was the keynote OF uVeayie t.',,u'.
speech delivered here today py hiiii"
Root. secretary of state. ,,-,...t.
Following MIR. Root the dlploInatic
,enresentafives of Latin American re-
nuhlics made speeches along the same
i,na offering trade extension between
tba co,Itries of South and North Amerl-
ca as n method of bringing these coun-
tries into closer and more lasting
friendship. ,s.,- .,
banouet given by the Kansas City
commercial club in commemoration of
fine signing of the John Jay commercial
treaty. Five hundred plates were laid
and many notable persons were present.
Besides Secretary Root the speakers,
in the order of their rank, were:
Ignacio Calderon, minister of Bolivia.
Felipe Pardo, minister of Peru.
Enrique Cortes, minister of Colombia.
Sylvino Gurgel de Amaral, first Sec
retary Of the Chilean legation.
John Barrett, United States minister
to Colombia.
DR.. william Jay Schief1in, New York,
great-grandson of John Jay, woh spoke
to the toast 1.-THE Value of the Life
ana Example Oh JONI Jay.
e. II. Hartman, president of the
Union Pacific railway, who talked in
formally on trade conditions generally.
Roots Address
Secretary Root, who addressed him
self to the toast, "Our Relation With
South America" said in part as fol-
lows
"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 indiffer-
ence in foreign affairs.
THE fathers of the republic, who in
their early lives were colonists, were
naturally familiar with European af-
fairs. 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 Louis
lana, the possessions of Spain and
France, and to the west by savage
tribes under foreign influence, the
navigation of the Mississippi blocked
at the mouth by foreign guns and with
an extensive ocean-borne commerce,
had to be keenly alive to foreign in
fluence and the course of foreign di-
plomacy.
But whenever southern. and west
ern borders were relieved from these
influences and the end of the ex-
haustive Napoleonic wars had led
Europe to turn its strength toward
it's own internal affairs and the col
onization and trade of the orient had
begun to absorb the surplus activity
of Europe we turned our attention to
our own internal matters and for a
long period ceased to take much note
of what was going on abroad, or tC
be much concerned with the way in
which 1t 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 constructive enterprise into con-
tact 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 nations of the earth.
Quotes Washington
"It is field in which the guiding
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 S
time.
''It it as true now as 1t was then
that Europe has certain primary in
terests 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 Indifferent or to be ignorant, for in
it the interests of our vast production
and trade are vitally 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.
ain this time of vast immigration,
of international investment and own
ership, of opportunities for enterprise
and of enlarged peaceful intercourse,
and, above all, of steadily progressing
popular government, new diplomacy
has been found necessary.
"a representative diplomacy answers
not to the judgments of courts or SOW
ereigns, but to the judgment of great
popular masses. 1t grows continually
more true that the sentiments, feel
ings and opinions of the people de-
termine policies; decide upon the is
sues of peace and war and establish
those sympathies between nations
which are more powerful than written
and signed treaties of alliance.
"A new responsibility rests upon the
people whose representatives answer
to their viii in shaping their treat
ment of foreign nations.
Should Not Act Hastily
1.-THE thoughtful men of any self
governing people have duty to in
form themselves carefully and thought
fully and to think soberly and clearly
and to express themselves temperately
and wisely upon foreign affairs.
I'VE already realize that the same
rules of right conduct which obtain
In our individual intercourse with each
other apply also to our International
political action and the exercise of
the power of self-government.
I'VE realize that what is wrong and
what to be condemned In the conduct
of man is wrong and should be con-
demned i'm the conduct of public Of
ficers and in the conduct of politicians
In the relations between nations,
which the great body of the people
now control. there should be gem
erai. all-pervading and controlling
sense that the same rules of conduct
ought to be followed.
Nations have souls and consciences
as truly as Individual citizens. The
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