The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-02
PRESIDENT D|Az
 RECEIVES MIR. ROOT
Meeting of Statesmen Is Most
 Cordial
TIE CABINET IS PRESENT
First Reception of American Cabinet Members In Mexican Capital-A Banquet at the National
 Palace Last Night.

Mexico City, October 1.-With all the members of the Mexican cabinet present. President Diaz received Secretary Root at II o'clock this morning in the hall of ambassadors in the national palace. The meeting between the two states men was most cordial MT. Root who was presented to President Diaz by lg- nacio Mariscal, the foreign minister, said he was delighted to meet the man who had made Mexico one of the foremost of Latin-Amerlcan countries and he hoped for a continuance of the good results arising today from the cordial relations between the United States and Mexico.
 President Dlaz in reply, said Mir Roots zealous work for a better understanding between the United States and Latin America was well known and appreciated and he welcomed the Secretary in the name of the Mexican nation.
 MT. Root was then presented to each member of the cabinet who all spoke words of greeting and good will.
 MT. Root went from Chapultepec to the national palace in an automobile He was accompanied by David F. Thompson. the ant1lCdn HfIlDdSSduoIs He tfOWuS III tue street cheered him as he sped by.
 Today was the first time an American cabinet officer has been received by Pres- ident Daz in Mexico.
 This evening there was a banquet at the national palace. the guests including the ministers of state, the city officials and members of the diplomatic corps. President Diaz offered toast and MT. Root replied.
 
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 other and even less justfable motives have led to misstatements, misconstruc tions and unfounded guesses all worked into terrifying headlines which have no foundation whatever.
 Tn each country, doubtless, there are irresponsible persons that a war would or might make prominent, who try to give seriousness to such discussions. But when one considers the real feelings of the two peoples as a whole. when one considers the situation from the stand point of the sanitary and real patriotism of eacn country. 1t Is difficult to char acterize in polite. moderate language the conduct of those who are attempting to promote misunderstanding and i'll feeling between the two countries.
 Tt gives me pleasure to assure the peo- pie of Japan that good will of the Amer ican people toward Japan is warm and cordial as ever. The suggestion of q breach in the amlcable relations between them finds no confirmation in public opin- ion in the United States"
 Mir. Taft then said it gave him great pleasure, this message of good will frons President Roosevelt.
 Friendly t5 America.
 In conclusion, the Secretary said he felt that the fact that the Japanese Elm peror had for the second time honored him with an invitation to audience was due to his majesty's desire to send a message of good will to the United States and show to the world that Japan was friendly to the Americans.
 Mir Tafts speech was greeted with en- thusiastic applause.
 After the banquet the assembly room was the scene of a remarkable manifesto ton of good will, everybody congratulat- ing everybody else on what was consid- cred to be a complete removal Of the lit tie cloud" which had been hanging over the ears of friendship between the United States and Japan. and rejoicing at the fact that q final damped had been put upon sensation utterances regarding the possibility of strained relations between the, two countries,