Hague from 1899 to 1907, just as it had stood the test of a century before that; in fact ever since it was delivered from the inspired lips of the Father of His Country. I quote this declaration as it has been embodied into The Hague Conventions :
" 'Nothing contained in this convention shall be so construed as to require the United States of America to depart from its traditional policy of not interfering upon, interfering with, or entangling itself in the political questions or internal administration of any foreign State, nor shall anything contained in the said convention be so construed as to require the relinquishment by the United States of America of its traditional attitude toward purely American questions.'
"No man in America knew better than Elihu Root that this American principle of non-interference was written into The Hague Conventions, for it was he who, as Secretary of State, in 1907 instructed the American delegates at The Hague to write it there. It is a sad commentary upon men in public life to be obliged to say that had the President tried to interfere in the German-Belgian-French-English controversy no man would have been quicker to quote this passage and to attack the President for failing to live up to our century-old principle of non-interference in European affairs than Elihu Root." (New York "Times", Feb. 18,1916.)
RUSSIA AND OUR CIVIL WAR—There is no authentic warrant for the widely circulated statement that Russia sent her fleet into New York harbor during the Civil War as a warning to England. The reverse is true. Russia felt her fleet menaced by England and France while it remained in Europe and dispatched it to New York as the most likely port to afford it protection from assault. The incident however was gratefully seized upon by Northern people as a device to impress the people of Great Britain with the possibility of joint action against them for their assistance to the Confederacy and the destruction of our merchant fleet by the "Alabama," "Florida" and other English privateers. It thus served a good though fictitious purpose.
SALOMON, EDWARD S.—War governor of Wisconsin. Distinguished jurist. Born near Magdeburg, came to America in 1848. His brother, Friederich S., was breveted major general in the Union army.
SALOMON, EDWARD S—Prominent Jewish officer in the Union army and governor of Washington Territory after the war. (No relation to the other Edward S. Salomon.)
SAUER, CHRISTOPHER—The first to print a book (the Bible) in a foreign tongue (German) on American soil ; founder of the first paper mill and type foundry in America, and a famous printer and publisher of German and American books. Born in Germany, arrived in the Colonies in the fall of 1724, settling in Germantown. Published the first newspaper in the German language, "Der Hochdeutsche Pennsylvanische Geschichts Schreiber, oder Sammlung Wichitiger Nachrichten aus dem Natur und Kirchen Reich". His magnificent quarto edition of the Bible, issued in 1743, after three years of endless toil, has never, in completeness and execution, been excelled in this country. He died in September 1758, leaving an only son, also named Christopher, who continued his father's business but gave it additional importance and employing two or three
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