The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-04-20
JAR 8. STRAUSS LECTURES.

u American Spirit BY Oscar s. straus> Author
)k ''The Origin OF Republican Form oil Govern
INT In the United States. Roger Williams
'Is Pioneer OF Religious Liberty. and othei
tfsrks. The Century Co. New York. Publishers
10 one is better qualified to write q
6k of this kind than is Mr.. Straus. He
4 man OF sound education, Of wide cul-
-. and OF broad experience in public
4 He is man Of his own time Pc
Iiarly, besides being. a man also .ol
Time, so far as his knowledge Of his
acal events and OF historical charac-
B is concerned. And the lectures that
Ike up this book are the ripe fruit ol
\ knowledge and experience:
IA appointed Mr.. Straus Minister to
rkey; and In the midst OF the troubled
hditions arising In that empire follow
< the Armenian massacres. President
(Kinley prevailed upon him to again
.ept the mission to Turkey. In 1906
cretary of Commerce and Labor, which
Ice he held until the end of the ad-
,listration In 1909, following the new
tne In Turkey. President Taft ap-
fted Mr.. Straus AS ambassador to
key. On the death OF President
lplace as a member OF the Permanent
hrt OF Arbitration at The Hague
h the fall OF 1912 Mr.. Straus was
,Inlnently in the public eye as the Pro-
BSiVS Party IOE oONelUOI
Nv York State.
g reason OF his thorough scholarship
distinguished public service at home
/ abroad, Mr. Straus is peculiarly Well
ed 10 interpret the American spirit
Is new volume OF his covers altogether
lnty-two diplomatic and historical es-
b and addresses. These include:
% American spirit-Address on Washington's
hday, February %, 1912. before the faculty and
Futs OF Brown Unlversity. and patriotic
ties. Providence, n. /.
amanta.ian Diplomacy of the Up,ted states-
Iefs al the Annual Meeting of the American
by OF International Law. washiDEton. D. C.,
NJ Growth ot American Prestigc-Addresr a.
ANNUAL Baaquet OF the Chamber Of Commerce
1s State OF New York. November II, 1910
uzenship and Protection OF Nsturaljzed Clh-
Abroad-Lecturs ot the U. s. Naval War
he. Newport. r. T.. summer course 1903,
N Diplomacy with Reference TO Our Diplo-
. aud Consular servIce-Address az President
he Annual Meeting OF the American Scotia!
y Commercial Age-hddress at the Anniversary
protion OF the Savannah Board OF Trade
innah, Ga, April J. 1905
nmerce and interpatious. Rotations s-Address
Iecretary OF Commerce and Labor. before the
pnsl Convention for the Extension OF Foreign
mercc Washington. D; G.. January Is 1907,
met @, the National Association Of Manu-
tuTers. New York May %. 1907.
p Peace OF Nations ard Peace within Ma
y coagroFs, New York. April l5 1907.
iIgioua Liberty In tho United sistes-Address
VI the University Of Georgia, at tho Cen'en-
lcelcbrat.on June u, 1901.
terica and the Spirit OF American Judaism
1ss Mt the Banquet OF the American Hebrcw
Fsgatlons. New York. January Is, 1911
er by non-Cathollcs 20 Cardinal Farley on
fturn from Rome. January 30. 1912.
here arc also tributes 10 William
,e Wilson, read at the Authors Club
View York March %. 1901; TO Edward
fe, SHEPARD. an address at the Me-
n York. October %, 1911: and to John
l. an address al the unveiling OF the
h Hay Memorial Window In the Tenn
OF Keneseth Israel. Philadelphia. De-
Der . 1906.
he author explains in his preface that
ithcr these essays and addresses,
e American spirit" because they IL
rate different phases of that spirit
5lr economic and national life and In
jationel relations They do so mi
kent degree
n Interesting feature Of this book Is
Address on The United States and
ala, which completely disposes of
myth That Russia sent her fleet TO
rica during the Civil War with sealed
}rs, these orders being conJectured TO
lhat in case Great Britain and France
,Enizcd the southern Confederacy the !
nan fleet was TO be put at the or
OF President Lincoln. There is ab- !
Vely nothing 10 Justify any such |
" as this. Mr. Straus shows, or the
rary. that the presence OF the Rus
4 fleets In New York harbor and In |
{harhor OF San Francisco was more
IN a refuge for that fleet against
Ish capture in n war that might |
y broken out by reason of compli- |
ms then very acute In Europe. but
n had nothing to do with American |
'lrs, than that the feet was sent for
,iservice OF the United States. The |
II as whole IS straightforward |
rstudied and. admirable exposition OF
American suirit. Of American affairs. !
/ OF the origin and development OF !
,doin OF conscience in the United States, !