Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-19
President Aims to Secure Close
Arrangements With Repub-
lies of the South
AMERICAS HIS SLOGAN
Secretary Roots Forthcoming Speech
at Kansas City to Attract lnterna-
tonal Attention-WiII Voice Senti.
ment Of Roosevelt Relative to PAM
Americanism.

Washington, Nov. 19.-Secretary
Root left Washington Saturday night
for Kansas City, where next week he
will make notable address before the
Trans Mississippi congress. Mr.. Root
is being followed by resident ministers
tries who are anxious to hear what
he will have to say, it being known
that his addresses will deal entirely
with the questions suggested by his
trip of a few months ago thru that
continent.
Indications multiply that Secretary
Root is about to resume his campaign
of education in the direction of what
may be called Pan-Americanism,
campaign which his southern voyage
so happily began. The fact that SO
many South American diplomats are
to so to Kansas City to listen to him
speaks loudly of interest which this
subject has in that quarter.
Secretary Root also has been an
nounced as the principal speaker at the
opening OF the commercial congress,
which will meet in this city in Janu-
airy, when it is expected that he will
again address himself to pan-Ameri-
can matters This commercial con-
gress will devote itself to the consider
alton of means for the extension of
American foreign commerce, having
South America particularlyin mind.
ri of ho
able American statesman are doubtless
for the purpose of preparing
the public mind for the new part which
it is expected thisrcountry will play
next year in The Hague conference.
The United States will then, for the
first time it is said, appear as the lead
er Of the three Americas and give
such encouragement to the Calvo
doctrine as will insure 1t careful con-
sideration by the great powers which
will control The Hague assembly.
Incidentally, such an attitude on our
part will be renewed assertion of our
adherence to the Monroe doctrine, with
the Calvo or Drago doctrine as corol-
larry. This, at any rate, is supposed to
be what Secretary Roots revival of his
propaganda means.
President Roosevelt has recently
had number of conferences with Sec
rotary Root on South American mat
ters' in general and it is claimed by
men who are close to him that he wilt
devote himself during the remainder OF
his term to forwarding any proposition
that will unite the two western CONT
nents more closely. This will be his
chief foreign policy, just as an eco
nomic policy, on which important fruits
have already been produced in the
rate bill, meat inspection bill, pure
food law, and pending prosecutions Of
great trusts, will he his chief aim as
far as domestic matters arelconcerned.
These two lines Of endeavor will abb
sorb practically all of the presidents
energy for the next two years and he
believes that there is ample time in
which to accomplish large results. We
at home know more about his domestic
policy than we do about his foreign
policy, but it is claimed that one Of
them is practically just as near his
heart az the other.
Secretary Root, who Is the prest-
dents mouthpiece in the addresses he
is soon to deliver, believes that he has
the right idea. He wants to convince
the Latin Americans that the United
States is honestly and sympathetically
their friends. They have too long, and
with good ground, as all know, sus-
pected that this country's objects were
purely selfish.