The life of Joseph Hodges Choate as gathered chiefly from his letters . ed on the place, men, women, andchildren, got a golden coin from Mr. or Mrs. Choate,who met and greeted them all on the piazza at Naum-keag. The dinner the night before—it was Sunday night—is recorded as a very notable social event in the BerkshireHills. The Springfield Republican says that the cakewas about three feet high and that Mrs. Choate cut itwith a golden knife. The most difficult thing of all onsuch an occasion is to have what needs to be said, saidacceptably. On this occasion the necessary remarkswere made, for
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The life of Joseph Hodges Choate as gathered chiefly from his letters . ed on the place, men, women, andchildren, got a golden coin from Mr. or Mrs. Choate, who met and greeted them all on the piazza at Naum-keag. The dinner the night before—it was Sunday night—is recorded as a very notable social event in the BerkshireHills. The Springfield Republican says that the cakewas about three feet high and that Mrs. Choate cut itwith a golden knife. The most difficult thing of all onsuch an occasion is to have what needs to be said, saidacceptably. On this occasion the necessary remarkswere made, for the most part, by Mr. Choate. He got back presently to every-day life, and we findhim giving President Taft all the backing he could inthe arbitration treaties which he was trying to get throughthe Senate. Late in the year a movement began for the celebrationof the hundred years of peace between Great Britainand the United States, following the War of 1812. Inconnection with that there came up discussion of thePanama Canal tolls, which the British Government con-. MRS. CHOATE (1915).From a photograph by Holliogcr. PRIVATE CITIZEN AND PUBLIC SERVANT 353 sidered discriminative against foreign shipping and notin accordance with the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty. Thatmatter was earnestly disputed for nearly two years.Meanwhile Mr. Wilson had been elected President andcame into office on the 4th of March, 1913, and promptlytook a firm stand against the tolls and succeeded aftera long fight in getting the law that instituted them re-pealed. It was of course a matter that interested Mr.Choate very much indeed, the more so that he had somuch to do with the Treaty. We find him making whatThe Times called a brief, vigorous, impassioned speechbefore the Pilgrims (on February 4, 1913) on the situa-tion created by the Panama Tolls Act. He ridiculedthe notion that there was, or could be, any substantialdifference of opinion as to the meaning of the Hay-Paunce-fote Treaty. If ever two men, he sai