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Ill .ft :.n i fit 11 p The Commoner. VOLUME 11, NUMBER 31 a. statement respecting the Tonnes eoo Coal and Iron company morgor. Ho said that this merger was neces sary in order to check the panic of 1907 and avoid disaster. The revolutionists have won In Haiti. President Simon has fled the capital and taken refuge on a cruiser. "While ho was ombarking at the wharf at Port au Prince there was a riot "in which Deputy Prln, Simon's chamberlain, and Ave other persons were killod and Clementine, the .president's daughter, and six other porsons, woro wounded. INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGES AND GLITTER OF MODERN AMERICAN DIPLOMACY Speech of Hon. Robert L. Henry, of Texas, in the House of Represen tatives, Wednesday, July 5, 1911. Tho Fall River Iron Works at Fall River, Mass., shut down August 4. Five thousand operatives aro affected. Theo. G. Uhlhorn, cashier of tho United States subtroaBury In New Orleans, died suddenly of heart disease. James A. Floharty, of Philadelphia, was re-elected supremo knight of the Knights of Columbus. A Mexico City dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: The firm stand of President de la Barra and the publication of a proclama tion by Francisco I. Madero express ing acquiescence in tho elimination of Emilio Vasquez Gomez aro ber Heved to have enabled the Mexican administration to pass a difficult reconstruction m situation without violence. The British parliament adjourned on August 18 to reassemble at the end of October or the beginning of November. The Texas senate adopted a resolu- Tho houso having under considera tion tho following resolution (H. Res. 221.) "Resolved, That tho secretary of state bo, and ho is hereby, directed to inform the house what action he has taken toward carrying out tho provisions of the act approved Febru ary 17, 1911, providing for the acqui sition in foreign countries of sites and buildings for tho use of the diplomatic and consular establish ments of the United States" Mr. Henry of Texas said: Mr. Speaker: Discussing the cir cumstances under which our country was settled, Green, the great English historian, wrote: "Between tho sailing of Win- throp's expedition and the assembl ing of the long parliament, in tne space, that is, of 10 or 11 years, 200 emigrant ships had crossed the At lantic, and 20,000 Englishmen had found a refuge in the west." "Driven by a brutal abuse of royal power invading their individual rights as citizens, these sturdy men thus crossed the Atlantic to find homes In the wilderness amongst us. Therefore It is no wonder that as soon as we realized that we were Americans and not merely English colonists we were taught that the law surrounds each citizen with a circle of individual rights over which no government, state or federal, or per son, can pass without peril. The sturdy individualism emerging from tion ordering an investigation into such a system became the inspira- CUO ULUIU-W1U.U UULLIU1L1UJU UjlUUtlUU. his way in various courts, along with that of Prussia. We sent Francis Dana to knock at the door of Russia. At this juncture of our diplomatic history we may profitably dwell upon the trials and dangers besetting our diplomats in the days of the revolu tion, when simplicity and hardship marked their careers, with an ab sence of opulence and oriental splen dor. During those times our fore fathers were mere "rebels" in the eyes of the British, and the voyage of an American diplomat across the seas was hazardous by reason of the British cruisers traversing the waters. The Reprisal, upon which Franklin sailed to France, captured two prizes on the way, and several times was menaced by suspicious sails. An eminent authority has said that in the event of the Reprisal's capture Franklin might have tested the truth of his famous remark In congress to his colleagues, that they must "either hang together or hang separately." Adams made his first voyage on an American vessel and the second on the French frigate Sensible, landing in Ferrol, Spain. Before independence was achieved, Deane proceeded abroad in secret, and when his presence in France was discovered Great Britain demanded his seizure and delivery into her cus tody. Jay, made a safe journey in the American man-of-war Confede racy; but Henry Laurens, sailing in 1780 to the Netherlands, was not so fortunate. Embarking in a small CLUBS FOR 1911 Pub's With Price. Coiu'ncr American Magazine, N. Y...$1.50 $1.75 .oanerican aoy, .uotroit l.uu Amor. 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Permit me to congratu late our ambassadors at the recent historic occasion in London that no serious bodily harm resulted to either in their ambitious desire to touch the throne, and to lament tho fact that perhaps some permanent wound was left by reason of some other representative outvieing them in gorgeous and overlavish display in vulgar wealth, jewels, peacock feathers, and personal raiment so essential to such occasions. (Laugh ter and applause.) And here we must admit that such bverzealous glamor and show indi cate a dangerous aspect of the new dollar diplomacy. Can any patriotic American, who contemplates the ris ing tide of lavish and almost obscene extravagance, with its source spring ing from the coffers of the overrich, fail in the perception that it is rapid ly undermining the foundations of every cottage in the republic? 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We note that on September 17. 1776. congress proposed a plan of commercial treaty to be submitted to the king of France, Franklin, Jefferson and Deane being appointed as commissioners for the purpose of laying it before the French govern ment. In December of the same year they addressed Count Ver gennes, minister of foreign affairs of France, the first formal diplomatic document on behalf of the United States to a foreign power. And it is historical that the French alliance resulting therefrom was the most important event of diplomacy occurring during the American revo lution. There was another treaty secured by the United States before peace with Great Britain, the one negotiated by John Adams at The Hague in October, 1792, with their "high mightiness, the states-general of the United Netherlands." Near that time the Continental congress accredited other agents to other European courts. We sent William Lee to make explorations of diplo macy at Vienna, John Jay and Wil liam Carmichael were dispatched upon a similar quest to the Spanish court, Halph Izard to Tuscany, Henry Laurens to the Netherlands, and the banks of Newfoundland the Mer cury, abandoned by her convoy, was seized by the Vestal, a British cruiser. Lauren's papers during the pursuit were put in a bag and thrown overboard. However, of too light weight to sink, they were recovered and delivered to the British govern ment, and Laurens himself was promptly imprisoned in the Tower of London. In this way I have endeavored to recall some of the almost forgotten incidents of the history of American diplomacy in order to "point a moral and adorn a tale." Let us not forget that these envoys had been a part of our early political life, contributed to our thought, our learning, our eloquence, our philosophy, and rise of the world's greatest republic. They were not merely fortunate ad venturers stumbling upon a pot of gold; they were not mere accidents thrown up by the plowshare of fate. They were leaders in opinion, in ac tion, in genuine patriotism, who had won the right to speak for the in fant perils in the discharge of their arduous duties with tho sturdy sim plicity and spirit of genuine Ameri canism. They were unheralded by royal pomp at the gates of Paris and London. There was no royal entry preceding their reception at gorgeous courts. Having referred to the solemn en try of an ambassador into London, a survival of diplomacy now almost obsolete, we may congratulate our selves that very recently as two proud and over-opulent ambassadors entered that ancient capital amid a veritable riot of vulgar display and extravagance of wealth, rushing headlong to the feet of royalty, no serious casualties actually occurred. We should felicitate ourselves, be cause in other days in the terrific struggle for precedence between am bassadors on great occasions of pub lic splendor armed conflicts fre Arthur Lee was Instructed to feel I quently occurred. At least, as History does not record anything sur passing the sudden and intensely bacchanalian revel of extravagance and show into which our simple and serious people have been swept by the abnormal growth of tremendous fortunes and estates to the detriment of our purest and best ideals. These grotesque performances Invite our pity rather more than a feeling of contempt. The most serious and corrupting aspect of the times Is the tendency of our great millionaires, still professing admiration for our republican institutions, to shine in splendor as great noblemen in foreign courts. In their endeavor to pave the way for such royal status the World has been profoundly amused at the expense of this na tion by the so-called system of "in ternational marriages," ofttlmes se cured, by purchase In return for high sounding titles accidentally held by thin-blooded nobleman. (Applause.) As an illustration of their progress up to date in that direction, the following extract is taken from the dally newspaper reports of June 21, as they published the honor roll in London: "Many American women awaTded places of honor United States well represented among peeresses at the coronation. London, June 22. America was well represented among the peeresses present at the corona tion of King George and Queen Mary. Those entitled to seats in West minster abbey were Consuelo, Duch ess of Marlborough, daughter of W K. Vanderbllt. of New York: Mayo, Duchess of Roxburghe, daughter of Ogden Goelet, of New York; Helena, Duchess of Manchester, daughter of Eugene Zimmerman, of Cincinnati, and wife of an Anglo-American, the Duke of Manchester being the son of the former Consuelo Yznaga, of Ravenswood, La.; Florence, March ioness of Dufferin and Ava, daughter of John H. Davies, of New York; (Coninued on Page 14.) U'- 4 fl mamfiimmimmwwmTimtmmiwm ..Av 'i..JWMfl