Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-28
IDA CANA PROTEST
ST|RS LOVE FEAST
Brazilian Ambassador Critir
cises Seizure of Coffee by
This Government.
SOUNDS DISCORDANT NOTE
AT PAN-AMERICAN DINNER
Secretary Knox Speaks Of Friendship
for Latin America.
MEXICAN INVASION ATTACKED
Representative Sulzer Denounces
Proposition to Intervene in the
Republic South of Us.
Calero Message.

| NEW YORK, May 2S.-One d:scordant
note was sounded last night at the first
dinner of the Pan-America1 Society in
the denunciation by the Brazilian ambas-
sador Of the seizure of coffee under court
procedure instituted by the United States
government. The ambassador followed
Secretary Knox on the program, and at
the close of a long address, he declared
that his hope for a new era in CONNER
cial relations with the United States had
received heavy blow when this coun-
| try Endorsed "the somewhat arbitrary
and quite revolutionary doctrine OF pay
| ing for other peoples merchandise not
the price they asked for it, but the price
the United States, 1 mean the American
merchants. want to pay for 1t.
| Henry White. ex-ambassador to France
and to Italy, president of the Pan-Amer:-
can Society. and the chairman of the
American delegation to the fourth Pan
ter. On Mr.. Whites right was Secretary
of State Knox, while on his left sat Senior
Domicio da Cana, ambassador from
Brazil. To the right Of Mr.. Knox was
Senior Manuel Calero. the new ambas-
| sador from Mexico. while next to Am
bassador da Cana sat Mayor Gaynor.
A desire for complete understanding
| among the republics of the western
hemisphere was the keynote of the gath
ering. 1t was an evening of hopeful sug-
geStiOns and assurances of good will and
esteem.
The Seizure Of Coffee.
The one tense moment of the dinner
came in the address Of Ambassador da
Cana Of Brazil. who spoke just after
Secretary Knox. Ambassador da Cana s
speech, which he read from a larse-sized
folio. in its early stages was iii suc: a
testing tone that it was accorded more
applause than the remarks OF any of the
other speakers. He said that he came
from 1.-THE land where the nuts come from
and coffee also. and all OF a sudden
the hornets nest was opened.
The word coffee broke the humorous
strain Of the address. and the diplomat In
a flash had the serious attention of every
diner in the hail. Throughout the hall
there were heard these whispered words:
Coffee trust. Coffee trust"
And 1t was taken for granted by the
guests that 1t was the recent coffee suit,
as consequence of which hundreds Of
the so-called Brazilian coffee trust were
seized by the United States authorities,
that Ambassador da Cana had reference
to; although he neither mentioned the
stored In Brooklyn warehouses and is
worth millions Of dollars.
Hints at Broken Friendship.
My hopes for a new era In our COM
merc;al relations" said Brazirs ambas-
sador. received a heavy blow with the
Endorsement by your government Of the
policy of paying for other peoples mer-
chandise not the price they ask for it, but
the price that the United States, I mean
the American merchants want to pay for
it,
Senior da Cana uttered the words
American merchants with emphasis,
and fingered on the words until he felt
sure that an impress had been made
Then he continued:
1T is a brand-new doctrine and the
United States seemed disposed to enforce
1t. even to the sacrifice of long standing
international friendship.
I'm their eagerness to establish their
right to NEEDLE with the property of
foreign state, certain officials Of this gov
eminent went SO far as to proclaim be-
fore an American court Of justice the for
fixture of the sovereignty Of that state.
$50 you see that We, the South Amer
leans. have still much to learn of the new
American ways in dealing with foreign
countries, as Americans have still to lea I'm
the way to our hearts. This should be
one of the purposes of the Pan American
Society. and i cordially wish and hope
that some day l may make the speech of
my life by bearing testimony before you
| that this splendid result has been hap
PLY and fully attuned.''