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Show Whitelaw Reid on Embassador's Duties Declares nt Banquet There Should Be No Politics in Position He Is Assuming. NEW York, May 38 Whitelaw Reid, who win soon go to indon as Embassador Embassa-dor to the Court of St. James, was the guest of honor tonight ot a farewell dinner din-ner given by the Republican club In attendance were mor- than three hundred prominent Republicans. Mr. Reid sp'ok i in part as follows Bryan as an Example. I do not enter upon trf dl"horce Of my dutp an a partisan No politics will or can h known In tho BmbaaSy W hrn William J Rrynn expressed his thanks for treatmni out Hrrihawiles. which was plainly duo to a man whom nearly hair tho American peopl had more thnn once- upprov.-d fcr their hlhet office, and when the President reKoonded that If any Kmhniador had failed to extend such treatment In mih a case, his shrift would have r.een sh'.it. there waa a fit recognition of what had been the uniform policy of our Government and what It should always remain. re-main. Would It be trepaslnir on too delicate ground If I ventured to suirc-at that the converse con-verse oucht to he true; that thore ought to be no politics at homo In dealing with tho Kmhass-'s work? Mr Reid referred humorously to the exaction made upon the Embassador to Great Britain with regard to public speeches and added: Speechmaking Not Chief Duty. Really . gentleman, biwever much appenr-nnce.s appenr-nnce.s may sometimes tend to a contrary view, the work of s,.eechmaklng Is not the chief duly tOt which the country sends out Its Embassador. Em-bassador. Nobody necls now to bo told of clasping hands acrons the sea We. know thtt Gresat. Britain and the United States In the nature of things do lnetahly sustain peculiar relations to each other, not held by either wlih anv other nation Them Is a duty of an Embassador more Important Im-portant even than prompting cood-wlll. An Embassador Is sent to look after the Infretta of his own country. Hoppy Is his lot If the Interests of the c.iunlry that snds him abroad ond those of the country to which he Ih sent nre not conflicting. If, unhappily, these events are f,,und to conflict th- most Inlurlous and most treacherous fault an Embassador can commit Is to sacrifice the Interests of hla own country In the deliberate and sordid hope of remaining i-ersona grata In the country in which ho te-mporarlly resides. Golden Rule and Monroe Doctrine. It Is a hoppy and Illuminating phrase of our great Secretary of State when. In a humorous vein, he told us that our foreign policy consists con-sists chiefly of the golden rule and the Monroe doctrine W need only odd the Plx doctrine: If any man hauls down the American flag, thoot him e.n tho spot." Neither that nor the Monroe doctrine Is International law but tcith are sure to remain re-main Indefinitely fundamental parts of American Amer-ican International policy. Our use for the big stlrk' Is much the same a.s that of the quiet citizen, to keep off footpads and th dogs. W'c rovet no nation's land or possessions. posses-sions. We- seek only to presorve and protect our own. We have a passionate preference, manifested on all suitable occasions through morn than half a century, for doing this whenever when-ever practicable by International arrangement rather than by war. Britisher Congratulates Us. Sir Percy Anderson, speaking for Sir Henry Mortimer Durand the British Embassador, Em-bassador, complimented the American people upon their selection of their Embassador |
