Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-02-17
ENDURING PEACE
ASKS TAKAH|RA
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR PAYS
TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN AND
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
GOVERNOR MACON REsPEAks
BROAD POLICY AND REsPoN-
sIBLE CITIZENSHIP.

Peoria, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-With 500 ban
queters assembled beneath the can
opy of entwined and intermingled
stars and stripes and sun flags OF
Japan, Japanese Ambassador Taxa
hira was last night one of the promi-
nent guests of honor at the CrevA
Couer banquet in honor of the cen
tennial of the birth of Abraham Lin
coin Charles Magoon, late provls-
ional governor of Cuba; Curtis Guild,
Jr., governor of Massachusetts,, and
Professor John Clark Freeman were
the other speakers.
Ambassador Takahira paid warm
tribute to Lincoln's generosity OF
mind and nobleness OF heart and the
sincerity of his desire to benefit his
country and fellow beings. He then
reviewed Lincolnis method of con-
Quoting the foreign affairs of this
country, carrying it through the great
binary power of foresight and precis-
ion. His expressions were coupled
with a sense of moderation and dig
nifty which made American diplomacy
so famous at the chancelieries of the
powers. Following this line OF
thought Takahira gradually brought
his remarks to the relations between
Japan and the United States.
THE history of the diplomatic re-
lations between the United States
and Japan and the other far eastern
countries he said. sis replete with
every description of the friendly acts
taken by this country which might
be considered as an application of the
golden rule, and there is every rea-
son to believe that such application
of the golden rule in your diplomacy
with those countries is being
retributed by the adoption of the
same rule in their diplomacy towards
you
Euogy by Magoon.
Governor Magoon spoke on Abra,
ham Lincoln, eulogizing the martyr
president. Speaking of the problems
Of today, he said:
Il doubt not that the ultimate des-
Tiny of the Philippines will be the
creation therein of free and indes
pendent sovereignty. L doubt not
that Cuba will be permitted to work
out its own salvation. / doubt not
that the republic of Panama, under
the fostering care of the United
States. will continue in existence
with increasing prosperity and po-
tency | doubt not that other alien
people, especially the inhabitants Of
the country surrounding the CARR
bean sea, by reason of their location
and maintenance of the Monroe doc
trine, will come more and more with
in the sphere of the influence of the
United States.
The American official is called up
on TO deal with questions which have
now arisen and which will continue
to arise in these countries; the
American citizen is called upon to
give them study and consideration;
and the American nation in discharg,
ing its responsibilities to them can
adopt no better rule than the broad
pOilCy nldl hcu Oul ny I<iHCOlu III lLc
concluding paragraph of his second
inaugural, which slightly changed to
meet the present conditions, would
read with malice toward none, with
charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive to finish the work.
we are in. to bind up the nations
III
have borne the battle, and to do all
which may achieve and cherish
just and lasting peace among our
selves and with all nations"