Evening star., 1914-04-26
ROOT G|VESP[EDGE
TO UPHOLD WILSON
Senator Declares American
People Should Loyalty Sup
port Head of Nation.
HAS SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO AFFAIRS IN MEXICO
Address at Banquet of International
Law MISUNDERSTANDING
Bryan Also a Speaker.

Bryan Also a Speaker.
Senator Root expressed his confidence
in and pledged his support to the Presi-
dent Of the United States in the strongest
terms at the banquet which last evening
concluded the eighth annual meeting OF
the American Society of international
Law and over which he presided as toast
master.
Il have been feeling very unhappy dur
ing the past few days" said the senator
from New York. over our affairs IN
Mexico 1t is not within the possibility
of human nature to avoid differences o.
opinion as to policy, and every one who
has a duty to perform must act accord
ing to the dictates of his own conscience
and judgment in the performance Of his
own duty. / wish the cup might pass
from us. but the President has acted on
his responsibility and conscience.
He is the head of this great nation.
1t is for the nation that he acts. No
matter how We may have differed III
our opinions of policy in the past, wa
must all. every one of us. stand 10y
ally by him. There must be no back :
ward look. but forward for the sue
cess and honor of our beloved country,
of the chief magistrate. upon whom
rests the responsibility of leadership.
Tribute to the President.
Thank Heaven. we have a President
(here his voice trembied with emotion)
in whose lofty character, sincerity OF
purpose and genuine desire to do what
is right. wise, patriotic and best for the
country and for humanity We can trust
absolutely. l trust it. have differed
from him in questions of policy. and
doubtless shall again. but / have conf
dence in the character and purpose of
the President of the United States He
is my President and I will stand behind
him in his leadership. And SO. gentle
men. ask you to rise for the first regu-
lar toast of the evening, the health of
the President
In discussing our foreign relations and
our attitude toward them Senator Root
said. in part:
Just at this moment there is. 1 think.
one of those occasional situations in our
country which will be in the highest de-
gree educating. stimulating and inspiring
along the lines of our thought and in
terest. We in the United States are so
isolated that in the past We have been
too prone to think of our foreign affairs
as something vague. indirect and
academic, and for that reason the great
American people have not taken a very
lively interest as a rule, in their foreign
relations.
Progress of Democracy.
THE American democracy has year
by year been coming more and more
into its own. to a more direct and all
embracing control over the affairs OF
the government. II the American peo-
pie are to conduct their own foreign
affairs as they are their own govern
ment they must know something about
international duties as well as inte =
national rights. The growth Of our
democracy in the assertion of its rights
has gone in advance of its realization
of its duties. 1t must learn that there
is no duty without a right and no
right without a duty.
THE wicked wars, the injustice AFRO
gance, insults of nation against nation.
arise in these days not from the ambi-
ton OF monarchs, or the whim prejudice.
greed or animoSity of the men at the top.
but from the mistaken understandings
and unrestrained impulses of the great
democracy to whose impulses We all re-
spond- And. for the peace of the world
and for the prosperity of our own coun-
try. there can be no higher duty resting
upon educated Americans than the duty
of offering all over our country a leader
ship of instructed public opinion TO
what Is right and just and honorable for
the American people in their foreign af-
fairs"
Bryan Supplies Feature of Interest.
feature OF interest to those in at
tendance was the reading by the Sec
retary of State. the final speaker of the
evening, the offer of mediation which
came yesterday from the republics Of
Brazil. Argentina and Chile. together
with the administrations reply to the
representatives OF those three coun-
tries.
"As a believer in reason and one who
looks forward with longing and confident
belief to the time when nation will not
rise up against nation" said Mr.. BRYAN
in his address to delegates and guests
distinguished in international law. Il
welcome the international lawyer as one
of the greatest agencies for the promo
ton of worldwide peace, and l am glad
to be associated with you, not only be-
cause of the responsibility of your pro-
fession and the high standing of those
who train themselves to the profession OF
law. but more proud because of the pros
pective work that you will engage in as
you help to raise disputes first to the in
tellectual and then to the moral plane
when we settle our differences on
an intellectual basis there is still some
opportunity for the strong to take ad
vantage of the weak; but when We
settle our differences on a moral basis.
it is a question of right and not OF
might
Other speakers were Representative
Stevens of Minnesota and Prof. Cool
idge of Harvard University, who has
recently been lecturing in the Sor-
bonne in Paris under the exchange
system.
Among those present were: Senator
Root, Secretary of State Bryan. Oscar
S. Straus. Charles NageI. Representa-
A. B. Johnson. Admiral c. H. Stockton.
Prof. George G. Wilson. Capt J. H
oliver. Admiral ]. P Merrell, C. J. b
Hurst. H. A. Holland. ]. G. Coolidge.
A c. Coolidge. Crammond Kennedy. F
C. Partridge. ]. H. Ralston. Judge AL
fred S. Niles. L. H. Post. E. O. Brown.
8. J. Peelee. w. S. Ufford. o. T. Cart
wright, W. c. Carpenter. L. H. Woolsey.
A. w. Parks, j. Ed Young. H. u.
Crocker. George A. Finch. W. II.
Baldwin. F. A. Updyke. H. B.
Tompkins. E. A Hartman, Prof.
Charles N. Gregory. J. w. Echols. John
J. B. Caivo. G. F. Adams. e. D. Adams.
II. B. F. Macfarland. Fred Irland. G. 7.
Porter. Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, w. e.
Sharp. W. NJ. Collier, Prof. w. R. Man
ming, Walter S. Penfield, A. c. Rivas.
Emiliano Chamorro. c. R. Dean, n. J..
William McNeir. Prof G. H.
Prof. ]. H. Latane, Prof
Philip Brown. Prof. Ernst Freund. Prot
F. w. Aymar, Prof. s. X. Hornbeck
Prof Arthur I. Andrews. Prof. Charles
Clancy Hyde. j. c. Drayton. Rich