The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-05-21

AY 21. 1901.
man and man, so between nation and
nation. there should live the great
law of right. These are the goals
towards which we strive; and let us
at least earnestly endeavor to realize
them here on this continent From
Hudson's Bay to the Straits of
Magellan, we, the men of the two
Americas, have been conquering the
wilderness, carving it into state and
province, and seeking to build up in
state and province governments
which shall combine industrial pros
perity and moral we'll being. Let us
ever most vividly remember the
falsity of the belief that any one of .us
is to be permanently benefited by
the hurt Of another. Let us strive to
have our public men treat as axio-
matte the truth that it is for the in
terest of every commonwealth in the
western hemisphere to see every
other commonwealth grow in riches
and in happiness, in material wealth
and in sober. strong self-respecting
manliness without which material
wealth. aVallS so little.
Today on behalf of the United
States | welcome you here; you, our
brothers Of the north, and, you, our
brothers Of the south; we wish you
we'll; we wish you all prosperity; and
we say to you that we earnestly hope
for your we'll being. not only for your
own sakes, but also for our own; for
it is benefit to each of us to have
the others do well. The relations be-
tween us now are those of cordial
friendship, and it is to the interest
Of all alike that this friendship should
ever remain unbroken. Nor is there
the least chance of it's being broken
provided only that all of us alike act
with full recognition of the vital need
that each should realize that his own
true interests can best be served by
serving the interests of others.
You, men of Canada, are doing sub
stantially the same work that we of
this republic are doing, ana face sub
stantially the same problems that we
also face. Yours is the world of the
merchant, the manufacturer and me-
chanic, the farmer, the ranclman, and
the miner; you are subduing the
prairie and the forest, tilling farm
land, building cities, striving to raise
ever higher the standard of right, to
bring ever nearer the day when true
justice shall obtain between man ana
man; and we wish Godspeed to you
and yours, and may the kindliesu ties
of good will always exist between us.
To you of the republics south of
us | wish to say special word.
believe with all my heart in the Mon
roe doctrine. This doctrine is not
to be invoked for the aggrandizement
of any one of us here on this conti-
nent at the expense of any one else
on this continent. 1t should be re-
garded simply as a great information
al Pan-American policy, vital to the
interests of all of us. The United
States has, and ought to have, and
must ever have, only the desire TO
see her sister republics in the west
ern hemisphere continue to flourish,
and the determination that no one
world power shall acquire new terri
tory here on this western continent.
We of the two Americas must be left
to work out our own salvation along
our own lines; and if we are wise
we will make it understood as card
inal feature of our joint foreign pol
icy, that on the one hand we will not
submit to territorial aggrandizement
of this continent by any old world
power; and chat on the other hand
among ourselves eacn nation must
scrupulously regard the rights and
interests of the others, so that instead
of any one of us committing the Grim
inal folly of trying to rise at the ex-
pense OF our neighbors, we shall all
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broth arhood, shoulder to shoulder.
low countrymen. think that we
have all of us reason to be satisfied
with the showing made in this exposi-
the past, of the results of the enter
prise, the screwd daring, the business
energy and capacity, and the artistic,
and above all the wonderful mechan-
ical skill and inventiveness of our
people. In all OF tbs we have legiti
mate cause to feel noble pride, and
a still nobler pride IN the showing
made of what we have done in such
popular education, and in the field
of philanthropy-especially in that
best kind of philanthropy which
himself and his neighbor by joining
with that neighbor hand in hand in
common effort for the common
good.
But weshould err greatly, we should
err in the most fatal of ways, by
wilful blindness to whatever is not
pleasant, if while justly proud of our
achievemntes we lailed to realize
that we have plenty OF shortcomings
to remedy, mat there are terrible
problems before us, which we must
work out alright, under the gravest
national penalties if we fail. 1t can
not be too often repeated that there
is no patent device for securing good
government; that, after all is said
and done, after we have given full
credit to every scheme for increasing
cur material prosperity to every eff
fort of the lawmaker to provide
system under which each man shall
be best secured in his own rights,
it yet remains true that the great fac
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