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Show Wr AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. he World Idea That Has Proven H Best. I Professor Grosvn of Amherst bo fore be American Economic 'and Ills-lorical Ills-lorical Association: I make no claim mi our diplomatic scrvlco Is perfect, rlbatall American foreign ministers Hire been saints or sages. Sometimes K have bad Incfllcient, Boiiieilines iHnild, sliuffllng men. but what General Hftxidtml suld of hlnipelf was tho ic-BoM ic-BoM of his colleagues: "When your BiioUicr reached Spain he was abso-' abso-' Ktcly direct and trunk in his ileal- Hlu fcholarly culluvo our diplomatic lepresentutlvus have surpassed those Hf any oilier land. No foreign country Hit tuainioned to lis service such a Host of historians, political economists, 'iBocts, orators, journalists und oducat iBrsof evciy class. B Any discussion of this suhjert Is In-ompUtc In-ompUtc which docs not recognize the bllily In diplomacy displayed by the fflccrs of our navy In 1815, Decatur 'i Algiers; In 1851, Porry in tho GuU of pddojia 1807, Farrngut In his Euro-mo Euro-mo visit on tho llngshlp Frankliu; In 93, Dewey In Manila bay. I The Ametlcan diplomatist lives in a Hbtss house, where lie may not only no Hu, buutonctf. Tho European rilplo-Hutlst rilplo-Hutlst still inhabits a bull-medluval Buile,HlDiost Impregnable to criticism, Hud difficult of uccuss, except by the : ' Btlvlleged few. ' H I"' well aware that many are clam- urns for thu adoption of the European Jitem of diplomacy. Does American iplomacy offer ouly nn uncertain title il pronilro nothing of veal ucuoui 'lUbiiient? Tho Immensity of It's llvemeiit cover tho wholo nlno-Mntb nlno-Mntb century oi International law. It bus broken thu caste shackles ol 'Irth, tins successfully asserted tho iRht of expat: latlon, has declared tho esawl straits and continental rivers U'Kl'shlg.vayj," destined to bo fn-0 marj. It bus compelled the rights ''neutrals to bu recognized by every Ivlked stale. Now It U building the caffouiioct for achievement no less sreat tho exomtlon of pnvato prop-'ly prop-'ly from capture on sua us It Is ex-JDipt ex-JDipt frum capture on hind, 'litis year three famous universities lield a regatta. One crew rowed a for-, for-, stroke, one a stroke half foreign, 'ad the third one American. In the 'd flnlslied tho boat propelled by tho lb Vaerlcan stroke. Iu honorublo near-- near-- m followed tho boat with tho stroke - 'alf foreign and half American. The row taught with the foreign training ' left behind. Tho Amoncan stroke ' tho stroko for us, whether on the tonrnes, the Solno.tho Tiber, tho Spreo fiheWlen. Ami that not because of 1 oiluclal prejudice or national pude, t because of thu facts of history. |
