| Show L al OMI IAL CLUB our growth has been so great as to bring Us on a wider field of the worlds A 1 constructive enterprise kansas city nov 19 A world J wide peace mb substantial and enduring made possible by closer commercial and friendly endly relations between nations v was s the keynote of a notable speech delivered here tonight iby by ellhu elihu root sore tary of state following mt mr I 1 root the diplomatic Te representatives of five latin american republics made maae speeches alone the same line off offering efing trade eten extension slon between the countries of north and south america as 9 a mes of bringing these cour countries tries into closer bloser and lasting relationship I 1 the occasion was wag the twelfth annual banquet given by the kansas kansa i city commercial club in commemoration of the signing of tho the john joh ja jay commercial treaty five hundreds hund redi plates were I laid jd and many notable pe persons arns were present MT mr root spoke in part as follows since john jay made the tariff treaty which Is commemorated by the knoal dinner of this club the united states stages has passel passed through a period of comparative isolation and indifference in forein foreign affairs the fat fathers lers pf af the reau republic who in their early lives atves were colonists wore were naturally lly familiar with european affairs the whole course of colonial life followed by the french alliance and the early wars aars of great britain was one of intimate relation with europe the young republic bounded on the north by the british provinces on the south by louisiana the possessions of spain and Fr france Raice and to the west by savage tribes under tinder foreign influence the navigation of the mississippi sis sippi blocked at thy the mouth by foreign guns and with an extensive ocean borne commerce had to be keenly alive to tb foreign influence and the course of foreign diplomacy but when ou our r southern and bests western borders wore were relieved from these influences and the end of the exhaustive Napo napoleonic leonle wars had led europe empe to turn its strength toward its own internal affairs and the colonization and trade of the orient had begun began to absorb the surplus activity of europe we turned aur attention to our own internal matters and for a long period ceased to take much note of what was going on broad abroad a or to be much concerned with the way in which it might affect us ou our rapid growth now however our growth has been so great as to bring us again on the wider field of the worlds trade and constructive enterprise into contact with all the great and active nations of mankind wo we have entered anew whether we wall or not by the necessities of our development into the field of intimate relations with all the nations ns of the earth it Is a nelu alela in which the guiding principle laid down by washington of friendship for all with entangling alliances with none Is adise as ase a rule of conduct as it was in time it is as true now as it was then that mirope europe has bas certain primary interests in which ach we are not concer nedi and ana into which wo we should not permit ourselves to be drawn yet it is a field in which we care no longer to bo be indifferent or to be ignorant for in it the interests of our vast vant production and trade are vitally concerned and in it we ve have responsibilities andi duties duties to civilization and to humanity which we cannot escape it if we would and which the conscience of america ill not permit us to escape c a pe it we could in this time of vast immigration of international investment and ownership of opportunities for enterprise and of enlarged peaceful intercourse and above all of steadily progressing popular government a new diplomacy has found it is a representative diplomacy and answers not to the judgments of courts or but to the judg judgment of great popular mas masses sef it grows continually more true that the sentiments feelings and opinions of the people determine policies decide upon the issues of peace and war and establish those sympathies between nations which are more powerful than written and signed treaties of alliance new responsibility A new responsibility rests upon the people whose representatives are to their will in shaping their treatment of foreign nations the thoughtful men of every self governing people have a luty to inform themselves carefully and thoroughly to think soberly and clearly and to express then themselves elves temperately and wisely upon foreign affairs we already realize that the same rules of right conduct which obtain in our individual intercourse with each other apply also to our internal political action and the exercises of the powers of self government we realize that what Is wrongs wrong and to be condemned in the conduct of man to man Is wrong and to the ibe condemned in the conduct of public officers and in the conduct of politicians in the relations lons between nations which the great body of the people now control there should be a general all prevailing and controlling sense that teat the same rules of conduct ought to be followed nations have souls and cona clence as truly as in vf citizens Thell the ahto fo of the just and faithful falth ful mad aad kindly man who is respected and beloved by his neighbors Is the type of what every citizen should wish elsh WS his own country to be in its re latious to all other countries to be narrow and hard selfish and grasping grasp tc to be arrogant toward the wen weak ac and timid in maintaining tho the right against the strong to be unwilling to give kindly consideration to the rights and interests teresta in and feelings feeling of others to be without sympathy or helpfulness for the rest of mankind all those things make an individual man despised and hated bated in the community comi I 1 we should take the me some same pains to holp our country avoid them that we would take to avoid them ourselves I 1 r example of democracy the greater part of the controversies and wars between nation 1 arise from the tendency of the people of each wh nation to as assume slane that upon every question which arises all th right la Is upon their own side and t insist upon having their own wa without that deliberate and kindl consider consideration atlon of the rights and inter ests este of the other side of the question which a just man would give to hi neighbor america americ has given to th world aa example of democracy madi mad up of individuals capable of that sell control and self restraint which en ables the defeated contestants in a most excited political controversy tv tc accept peacefully the judgment of the majority and leads the entire corn com however deep may oe its feet ings to bow with respect to Ju judicial dicia judgment the same spirit reinforced by the renti sentiment ment for humanity and the de sire ore to help on the progress of civilization the rule of peace and justice throughout the world may exert si a powerful influence not only upon OUT own affairs with other nations but upon the international intercourse of mankind mediation and arbitration are useful methods of solving international nut national Jonal controversies without recourse to w war ar but the true preventive of warlis the willingness of the people of the world to de be just toward one another the strong desire of the people of the earth to be kind toward one another the application of the same rules by bv all men to their collective treatment of other nations which good citizens apply to their in treatment of each other the true arde and onal far war is the love of jil justice stice and peace among the he people who make war or preserve peace |
