The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-30
SPEECH OF RAIGOSA
TRIBUTE PAID TO THE UNITED
 STATES BY THE MEXICAN.
The Moral Aid of the Great North ern Republic, He Says, Has Greatly Aided His
 Nation.

| Mexico City, Nov. 29.-At the banquet
 given by the United States delegation to | the Pan-American conference in honor or | the Mexicans Senor Genario Raigosa or | Mexico, President of the International American Conference, made notewor- | thy speech. He spoke in part as follows: | "The Spanish-American nations when | they emancipated themselves from Flu | ropean domination had not, like the
 United States, the good fortune or oelng | born to an autonomous life organicaily | adapted to the exercise of self govern ment by long previous training in the practice and social institutions based on immemorial customs and homogeneous | character of their inhabitants. but on the contrary sprang into the immediate | enjoyment of absolute sovereignty from
 the depths of the most complete submis- | siveness and isolation, and afflicted moreover, by grave organic ma1ady' | which, during long years of severe in- l ternal suffering, incapacitated them from adjusting themselves with the vigor of their youthful energies to the new en- vironment involved in political instttu- tions of the highest type as are those who consider the people as the only source or authority in self government by the peo-
 pie as regards the instrumentality of its
 administration and for the people as it's | only object and sole raj on d etre of all authority This profound initial differ
 enc Is in large measure the cause or
 inequality in the development of the Spanish-American nations as compared with the great northern republic, seeing that they were under the necessity or
 beginning by adjusting their internal equilibrium before they could think of
 devoting themselves to their own devel-
 opment Therefore 1t would be neither
 rational nor true to attribute the demo- cratic institutions the condition of tur-
 bulence which arose from deeper and
 more noxious causes"
 Speaking of the importance of the con
 ference. MT. Raigosa says that the eyes
 of Europe and the world are fixed on the
 conference and that the moment has ar- rived when it's members must either Ae-
 cord in the book of human evolution. a
 new victory in the cause of right, or press
 another crown of thorns on the brow of justice.
 He added that a step backward would be a lamentable misfortune, but remark ed: "I am sure that such a misfortune will not occur, for wisdom, sincerity and the patriots of each and every one of the delegation to the continental Ameri- can conference will never allow any oth-
 CT part of the world to be warmed by a
 more vivifying ray than that which will be shed by the sun oI regeneration when
 it rises over the lofty Cordilleras of America to usher in the glorious day of
 universal brotherhood and peace"
 Addressing himself especially to the
 American delegation, MT. Raigosa said:
 'T take pleasure in stating here ip the
 name of every man of enlightenment in
 my country. that if in former times war
 ploughed a chasm between the two coun-
 tries and engendered bitterness and ran
 cor. on the other hand. in more recent
 times, the noble, generous and disinter-
 ested assistance, none the less energetic
 and efficacious because only moral, af-
 forded by the people of the government
 of the United States towards the achieve
 ments of our second independence in 1866,
 by obliging the French Caesar to with
 his hosts from our territory, has effaced
 every resentment has healed every
 wound and has transformed the senti-
 ments of the Mexican people towards the
 people of the United States into those of
 cordial and sincere friendship"