The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-06-15
Secretary Knox Says Advanced
Nations Should Aid Those
That Are Backward
SPIRIT OF DIPLOMACY GROWS
Sees Time When Wars Shall Cease
and When the Nations of the
World Will be United for
Peaceful Development

Philadelphia. Pa. June 15.-'If this
government can help To upbuild its
neighbors and promote the thought
that the capital of the more advanced
nations of the world would be better
employed In assisting the peaceful
than in financing wars. 1t is such "A
deviation from traditions as the
American people will approve"
Secretary Knox speaking today at
the commencement exercises of the
University of Pennsylvania on The
Spirit and Purpose of American Di-
plomaCy, voiced that sentiment prin-
cipally as the key note of his review
of American statecraft from its be-
ginning.
Beginning with John Jays treaty of
1894 with Great Britain for the peace
full settlement of boundary disputes,
which he declared ushered in the mod
ern era of arbitration. Secretary Knox
declared that American diplomacy
had been diplomacy of real and deli
mite direction and spirit. not based on
expediency nor driven by the variable
winds of opportunism, and one which
had in it justice, candor moderation
and generosity, rejecting the be-
coming attributes of a great people.
Praises American Diplomacy
The place which this nation has TAX
en- i'm the promotion of arbitration
Mr.. Knox commended highly, payint
generous reference To his predecessors
for their part of the work and refer
ring only modestly to his own worl
of promoting an International Prize
court with the functions of Court o
| Arbitral Justice.
The United states, Mr.. Knox de
clared had taken the advanced groun'
that arbitration is a judicial NOR
than diplomatic procedure and tn
| decision of such a court must con
form to the principles of law AM
equity involved and controlling. Tn
initiative of the United States u
promoting such a court he said he be
lieved would lead to the early estap
lishment at The Hague of perman
ent court Of arbitration.
The most active sphere of Ameri
can diplomacy, however Mr.. kno'
declared was i'm the relations OF TN
limited states with the twenty othe
republics of the Western hemispher'
Most of them are passing through a
evolution similar to that of the Unite
states he said. and the influence
the diplomacy of the United state
could be traced to the developmef
and welding of the Pan America
family of nations. Castro and Zelayi
Mr.. Knox referred to as tyrants.
Canal Will be Great Aid
The financial difficulties of tn
Latin American republics, Mr.. kno
compared i'm a measure to these
Santo Domingo, and he warmly d'
Tended the United states for its cour'
I'm the case of the latter. Negotiation
for the funding of the national de'
of Honduras now under way he sa
, would doubtless receive the approv
r of this government. The Pahan
> Canal and the Panama Railway NJ
/ Knox declared would both be gre
factors in the peaceful developmel
Q of Latin America.
In conclusion Mr.. Knox SAID:
[ eve have indeed. as Is right, hrn
g IA, maintained our national sovereign
S ~ and dignity and the rights OF o.
C citizens. and we have not aVoiu
war when honor and duty nave
r ,.olsod that stern arbitrament. NeVe
s theless we have loyalty submitted ou
= solves to the control of the Ideals
n peace and to the principles of intern
= tional comfy and good VIII; and
Q have exerted our influence and go
$ offices 10 guide and aid others alo
c that path. We have not, indeed sto
alone I'm that attitude, but have act
in concert with other powers W
y recognize the same high call and sc
u the same great ends.
u Wars Shall Cease
1--WE have reached poiht WIZ"
is evident that the future holds
II store a time when wars shall cea'
10 when the nations of the world sh
* realize a federation as real and vi
is as that now subsisting between !
If component parts of single sta
10 when by deliberate international &C
T. junction the strong shall universe
ID help the weak. and when the corpor
l. righteousness of the world shall co
pel unrighteousness to disappear
= shall destroy the habitations OF cru
~ ty still lingering in the dark places
the earth. This Is "the spirit or
10 wide world brooding on things
40 come" That day will be the Mill'
70 ium. of course; but in some sense
= degree II will surely be realized
Il this dispensation of mortal time.
~ "It Is for this country always
IS maintain its historic policy and a
tude. to be true to this greatest q