Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-06-17
HOW TO Be DIPLOMAT:
BY SECRETARY KNOX
He Looks for a Cessation of
War, but Not Until the
Millennium

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 16.-"If
this government can help to upbuild its
neighbors and promote the thought that
the capital of the more advanced ma
lions of the world would be better en-
ployed in assisting the peaceful develop
ment OF those more backward. than in
financing wars, 1t is such a deviation
, from traditions as the American people
will approve"
Secretary Knox speaking yesterday at
commencement exercises of the Univer-
isty of Pennsylvania on THE Spirit and
Purpose of American Diplomacy" voiced
that sentiment principally as the keynote
of his review of American statecraft from
it's beginning.
Beginning with John Jays treaty of
1894 with Great Britain for the peaceful
settlement of boundary disputes, which
he declared ushered in the modern era
of arbitration, Secretary Knox declared
that American diplomacy had been a di-
plomacy of real and definite direction
and spirit, not based on expediency nor
driven by the variable winds Of opportu-
mites, and one which had in its justice,
candor, moderation and generosity re-
flected the becoming attributes of a great
people.
The place which this nation has taken
in the promotion of arbitration, Mr.. Knox
commended highly. paying generous ref
erence to his predecessors for their part
of the work and referring only modestly
to his own work of promoting an inter-
national prize court with the functions
of court of arbitral justice. r..
Tho United States, Mr.. Knox declared,
had taken the advanced ground that ar
bitration is a judicial more than a d.
plomatic procedure and the decision OF
g. v1~t,,
ciples of law and equity involved and con-
trolling. The initiative of the United
States in promoting such court he said
he believed would lead to the early es-
tablishmen at The Hague of a permanent
court Of arbitration.
ZELAYA A TYRANT.
The most active sphere of American
diplomacy, however, Mr.. Knox declared,
was in the relations OF the United States
with the 20 other republics Of the West
ern hemisphere. Most OF them are
, passing through an evolution similar to
that of the United States, he said, and
the influence of the diplomacy of the
United States could be traced to the de-
velopmenr and welding of the Pan-Amer-
lean family of nations. Castro and Ze-
| laya, Mr.. Knox referred to as tyrants.
The financial difficulties of the Latin
American republics, Mr.. Knox compar-
ed in a measure to those of Santo Do
mingo, and he warmly defended the
United States for its course in the case
of the latter. Negotiations for the
| funding of the national debt of Hondu-
ras now under way, ne said, would
doubtless receive the approval of this
government. The Panama canal and
! the Pan-American railway, Mr.. Knox
declared, would both be great factors
in the peaceful development of Latin
America.
In conclusion, Mr.. Knox said:
I'VE have indeed, as is right, firmly
maintained our national sovereignty and
dignity and the rights of our citizens
and we have not avoided war when
honor and duty have invoked that stern
arbitrament. Nevertheless, we have
loyalty submitted ourselves to the con-
troll of the ideals of peace ana 10 the
principles of international comfy and
good will; and we have exerted our IN
fuence and good ollices to guide ana
aid others along that path. we nave
not, indeed, stood alone in that atti-
tude. but have acted in concert with
other powers who recognize the same
high call and seek the same great ends.
WHEN WARS CEASE.
I'VE have reached a point when II Is
evident that the future holds in store
time when wars shall cease; when the
nations Of the world shall realize fed
Grafton as real and vital as that now
subsisting between the component parts
of a single state; when by deliberate IN
ternational conjunction the strong shall
universally help the weak, and wnen the
corporate righteousness of the sworld
shall compel unrighteousness to disap-
near and shall destroy the habitations
of cruelty still lingering in the dark
places of the earth. This is the spirit
of the wide world brooding on things
TO come" That day will be the Millen-
iu-o az course: but in some sense and
depree Il Will surely be realized in this
dispensation of mortal time"