Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-27
ROOTS SPEECH AT
 MEXICAN BANQUET

During the visit of Secretary of State Elihu Root to the City of Mexi- co he was given a banquet by the prominent American residents in that citv. On this occasion the secretary spoke as follows:
 MT. Chairman, Fellow Americans: It is a long, ways from the Bowery, but I feel quite at home. 1t is delightful to feel that my country is Illustrated in this land of beauty by so many hand some and cheerful looking men; it is delightful to see the eyidnces of pros perity in, l think, every American here, and it is delightful to see that subtle. indefinable qulckening of spirit that comes from separation, has given each of you, an exile in a rorergn land, a-rfew significance in every star and stripe and every reference to the old flag and the old home.
 Your welcome is very grateful to me; your kind expressions most heartily reciprocate. l do not wish to return evil for good by preaching, but iU occurs to me that you navel will not say that you have left your counr try for your countTy's good-you have not abandoned your opportunities to serve her: you have rather reached the position where you have new op- portunities for service as American citizens. One serious fault which for merly existed to a very great extent among Americans, and which has been growing less, was a certain provincial
 1e at feyF.. CTS. There was a good deal of truth underlying the observations and char acterizations of Mir. Dickens which made our people so angry 60 or 70 years ago. One of our American hum. orists refers to the people of west ern mining camp as looking upon a newcomer with the fdea mat he had the defective moral quality of being a foreigner. Now the residuum of that old feeling stands in the way of Amer ican trade and of American inter
 course generally with other nations. No. one can do more to advance the disappearance of that attitude than you who have experienced the friend shin and kindliness of the people of | this foreign country; you who have | learned by your personal experience | how many and how noble are the ! characteristics of this foreign people; you who have been able to see now much we Americans may well learn | from them, you can, each one Of you, | be a teacher of your countrymen in your continued intercourse with your | homes and your home associates in | the gospel of courtesy and KindiinesS 1 toEard all mankind
 1 There is one other thought that | comes naturally to my mind. You not | only have not abandoned your duties | towards your country by coming 10 | this foreign land, but you have ac- ! quired new duties towards the com
 munity and the nation which has given
 you welcome and shelter and prosper ity. There is underlying all the ma i terialism and the hard practical sense
 of the American people regulating it's own government for it's own interests
 there is underlying that, a certain | idealism which carries conception of
 a missionary calling to spread through | the length and breadth of the world | the blessing of justice and liberty and of the institutions which we believe
 make for human happiness and human progress. That mission is to be full filled not by making speeches and the
 giving of advice, the writing of books,
 or even the publication of newspapers;
 1t can best be fulfilled by personal | influence and intercourse of men, one with another. No American who is in a foreign land can help representing his country: its honor and it's good name rest upon each one of us the moment we cross the border Yo1 not only represent your country, but you have a duty to perform towards the country in which you live. giving
 to her and to her people through youi efforts and all your association the
 best contribution that your training as American citizens, that the tradi | tions of centuries of American life i enable you to give, towards the main tenance of law and order; towards the promotion of all ideas that you have
 been taught in your youth to consider sacred towards holding up the hands | of authority; towards the inculcaton of the sentiment of loyalty; towards II the perBetuity of the government I which gives you security for your lives
 and your property in your new home
 T have one prominent thought in T meeting you today: it is. while you continue 10 be good and loyal Amer 4 ican citizens you should be good and loyal Mexican residents. 1 can no bet .i ter voice the sentiments of all of my countrymen here I know and I can
 no better represent the feelings of ouI
 friends who remain at home. than by
 asking you to rise and join me in
 drinking to the long continuance ol
 life. strength and usefulness for the
 man who. more than any other or all others. has given to you the oppor ! tunities that you now enjcy, President Porfirio Diaz."
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