The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-18
Vast Benefits Will Accrue
From Relations, Sec.
rotary Thinks.
United States, at The Hague,
Will Espouse Cause
Of the LatinS. .

BY W.. w. Jermane. Colorado Building,
Washington, D. G.
wv p AsHINGTON, Nov. 17.-sec-
w rotary Root left Washington
tonight for Kansas City,
where next week he will make a nota
bic address before the Trans Missis-
sippi congress- Mr.. Root is being fol-
lowed. by. resident ministers Of
most of the South American coun-
tries who are anxiuos to hear
what be will have to say, it being
known that his address will deal entire
ly with the questions suggested by his
trip of few months ago thru that con
tinent. ..,.-..t
Indications multiply that Secretary
Root is about to resume his campaign Of
education in the direction Of what may
be called Pan-Americanism, a cam
paign which his southern voyage so
happily began. The fact that so;
many South American diplomats are to
20 to Kansas City to listen to him
speaks loudly of interest which this sub
ject has in that quarter. -
Secretary Root also has been an.
nouneed as the principal speaker at the
opening Of the commercial congress,
which will meet in this city in January,
when it. is expected that he will again.
address himself to Pan-American mat
tiers. This commercial congress will de-
vote itself to the consideration Of means
for the extension of American foreign
commerce, having South America par
ticularly In mind. 49, .. ..,
70 Foster 'Three Americas.''
All these moves on the part of the
able American statesman are doubtless
for the purpose Of preparing the pub.
lie mind for the new part which it is
expected this country will play next
year in The Hague conference. The
United States will, then, for the first
time it is said, appear as the leader Of
the three Americas and give such en-
couragement to the Calvo doctrine as
will insure it careful consideration by
the great powers which vii control
The Hague assembly.
Incidentally, such an attitde on our
part will be q renewed assertion of our
adherence to the Monroe doctrine, with
the Calvo or Drago doctrine as a corol-
larry. This, at any rate, is supposed to
be what Secretary Root 3 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 1t is claimed by
men who are close to him that he will
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 bin, meat inspection bill, pure
food law. and pending prosecutions of
far as domestic matters are concerned.
These two lines Of endeavor will alb.
sorb practically all Of the PRESIDENT
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 as the other.
Presidents Mouthpiece.
Secretary Root, who is the presi.
dent g 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 alphabetically
their friend. They have too long, and
with good ground, as all know, sus-
pected that this country's objects were
purely selfish. = -.-..
Some dSy there will be Pan-Amer-
lean railway, an isthmian canal and
steamships plying from this country
to all South American ports. There
will be commerce, development and all
the resultant benefit to all concerned.
But the first thing is to convince the
southern republics that the interest of
United States is not purely selfish, and
it is toward such an end that Secretary
Root Is laboring. He made certain
speeches during his South American
trip, and undoubtedly the diplomats
who are following him to Kansas City
want to know if he will say the same
THINGS to his own countrvnnan Sbo,,Id