Words spoken by Don Domingo Arteagar, Alemparte, the editor, at a large banquet given to the medical students who had acted nobly during the epidemic, September 4, 1872

Words spoken by Don Domingo Arteagar, Alemparte, the editor, at a large banquet given to the medical students who had acted nobly during the epidemic.

Gentlemen: I arise to propose a toast in honor of the Honorable Mr. Root, minister of the United States. The Government of the United States sent him to Chili to cultivate with our government the relations of good-fellowship and harmony, which happily exist between the two countries.

In presence of the epidemic which afflicted us, Mr. Root contented not himself alone with performing the duties of that noble mission. Disregarding the advantages of his exalted position, the comforts and securities of his home, he wished to cultivate also relations with the suffering and the contagion of our city. He visited our lazarettos, he attended and aided our sick—compromised his life by saving our lives. He has been thus something more than the diplomatic representative of the great republic. He has been a man of charity.

Gentlemen: To the health of Mr. Root, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the human brotherhood, near the afflictions and sympathies of the Chilian people.