The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-30
SENIOR RAIGosA's SPEECH.
He Contrasts the Different Con-
ditiOns of National Life in Ameri-

Gu.
City of Mexico. Nov. 29.-At a ban
quet given by the United States dele
cation to the Pan-American confer
ence in honor of the Mexicans, Senior
Genaro Raigosa of Mexico, president OF
the International American conference,
made noteworthy speech. He said in
part:
'The Spanish-American nations when
they emancipated themselves from Eu-
ropean domination had not, like the
United States, the good fortune of be-
ing born to an autonomous life organ
ically adapted to the exercise of self
government by long previous training
in the practice of political and social
institutions based on immemorial Gus
toms and homogeneous character of
their inhabitants, but on the contrary
sprang into the immediate enjoyment
Of ABSOLUTE sovereignty from
the ID. depths Of most COM
pletef "Reminiscences and isolation.
Afflicted, moreover, by a grave organic
malady, which during long years of Sc
we're internal suffering. incapacitated
them from adjusting themselves with
the new environment involved I'm politi-
cal institutions of the highest type, as
are those which consider the people as
the only source of authority in self
government by the people. as regards
the instramentality of its ddministra-
tion and for the people as its only oh
ject and sole raison d'etre of all ati-
thority. This profound initial differ
ence is ina large measure the cause Of
inequality in the development of the
Spanish-American nations as compared
with the great northern republics, see
ing that they were not under the ne
cessity Of beinning by adjusting their
internal organic equilibrium before
they could think Of devoting sheni-
selves TO their own development
Therefore. it would be neither rational
nor true 10 attribute to democratic in
stitutions the condition of turbulence
which arose from deeper and more
noxious causes"
Must Be No Step Backward.
Speaking Of the Importance Of the
conference, senor Raigosa said the eyes
of Europe and the world are hxed on
the conference and that the moment
has arrived when It's members must
either record in the book Of human ey-
olution new victory In the cause Of
right, or press another crown of tbOrns
on the brow Of justice.
He sdded that q step backward
would Be q ismeDtabie misfortune, but
remarked:
II am sure that such . miefOrture
wifi nOf occur, for wisdom. sincerity
and fbe patriots u esch and every one
N dc 1eleRaflOns ~ the continental
American conference VIII never allow
any Other part ~ ne world ~ BE-
warmed W more WYlfVinR ray than
fhaf With w)ii D. shed ~ the fun ~
human feRsDefaflOu when q rises Dyer
fbe lofty coreiileras ~ $msflcs ~
iisheF ID fhe glorious az ~ universal
BROTHERHOOD and peeoe"
AddreeFinE blWsef efpefi9ly t9 ~
Anericap eelsgstes, neppr itaiNpsa
asie
- fake pissnpfe iu rtatuf herf fr
fhe nsu,f ~ every man ~ enl'ffffnf
nauf ~ nj eouDut. nlef in fpfaef
tlmes EN piouglleq on1eW bss
fNeen fhf feanffief end snKfnfftea
bffefueaf ene farnoF nH fHf ofsef
hahf ID fnoff lfnfnf fimes ESQ., nUtif
genfroif fnf aIelHfafrffef affiafFnff
nonf ~ lfnf eNeffeil aqf ~ aflpef
hel auff DuIt HofHI HfHaFN NF fHf
neoDIf uf faf Fofff nHfHf RI tNN
Nnlifd NiBtte tNNsfee tgf Alf fiNsia
~ aHf tff0nf NafffnarFt N itM NF
oa'lsiaf le fneN'p fHHf Az ni.Hs