Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-09

HERE-REPoRr OF THE COMMITTEE ON PLLl
AND SCOPE.
Today and tomorrow will see meeting in thil
city committees of leading citizens from al
over the country, who have in preparation the
initiatory steps for one Of the most importan,
inter-republic conventions the world has eve,
seen. Today at the Arlington the different sub.
committees of the proposed pan-republic con-
gress meet and tomorrow the general commit
tee of two hundred will hold meeting at the
same place, where progress will be reported
and the report of the committee on plan and
scope will come up for final action.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEETING.
Coming close on the ending of the PAN
American congress this proposal for a pam
republic congress has an especial significance.
1t is evident that a spirit Of international
friendship and comfy is abroad in the world,
and especially is this so among the republics
OF the American continent To her credit be
it said the United States. both through her
government and through her citizens, has
thrown herself with energy and tireless activity
into the work of fostering and encouraging
this spirit. Thinking men today realize that
the civilized man has no longer that intense
attachment to locality which characterized his
ancestors. 1t does not follow from this that
there is a necessary falling off of patriot
ism and love of country, but it
follows as necessary corollary that men now
take greater interest in and have better
and more friendly acquaintance with other
nations than formerly. The causes of this
change in sentiment are not hard to find. The
increase and diffusion of knowledge among
men has been rapid that the horizon of
human sympathy and brotherhood has been
indefinitely expanded. Likewise, as a natural
result the era of INSTRUMENTATION, with
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nations are no longer strangers; they are
neighbors, and one nation is as well acquainted
with the hopes, struggles and troubles of
other nations as the average man is with the
affairs of his opposite neighbor.
THE UNITED STATES IN THE ADVANCE.
As has been stated, our own country has been
among, the foremost in this advance toward the
millennium. During the past two years we have
seen held in this city grand pan-American in
ternational conference. We have seen repre-
sented in this body no less than nine of the
Anglo-American, Spanish-American and Portu-
guese-American states. We have seen these
states carefully debate the great questions of
arbitration. reciprocity, intercontinental sail
ways. steamship communication, sanitary laws,
customs, silver coinage, patents, trademarks,
weights and measures, regulations for ports of
entry, eXtradition, international banks and the
general improvement of the law of nations. We
have seen many practical improvements come
from their discussion and we are able to see
many more i'll the future as the direct result of
the congress. This conference was a govern
ment affair and labored under all the diff
culiies and attacks which were necessarily
made upon its work and results by the partisan
spirit of the country.
SPIRIT OF THE NEW MOVEMENT.
The new movement has as its ends the pro-
motion of pan-republicanism on broader
scale. The movement seems to have taken its
rise from the patriotic societies Of the United
States.