Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29


England and ofrr~ FOREIGN nations are
plantlng their 0mercial fortitca-
lions on the lands that should be our
own.
The Monroe Doctrine has been n
political instrument rather than
commercial one but as the strongest
International bond operating In the
world today Il fosters a sentiment OK
generosity that would amount TO not
less than preferential treaty OF trade
II we would but foster and develop IT,
But we have persistently ignored II.
There is but one way for merchant
or tradesman TO 40 10 Rio or Buenos
Ayeres. and that is by crossing the
Atlantic twice. During the last year
as Secy Root pointed ont. there sailed
into the wonderful harbor Of Rio over
$500 steamships bearing foreign flags,
not one of which was American. But
seven times IN the II months aid the
stars and Stripes unfurl In that sun
ny harbor, and each time II was borne
by a cheap and incoKsequentinl wind
jammer" two OF which were In dis
tress,
To meet this need In trade expan-
sion to the south, the secretary of
state made an earnest plea for ship
Thus, on the platform OF Kansas City
were the needs of the shlpyards on the
coast of Maine brought into common
issue with the banks OF La Sale street
and the manufacturers and jobbers of
the Ohio Mississippi, and Missouri
valleys.
COMMERCIAL UNION NECESSARY
Kansas IL the greatest wheat field
in the world Canada has lured many
thousands of American farmers on to
the bread-producing prdiries of her
new west, but down to the south. In
the Sierra lands OF Peru and Bolivia.
are great plateau stretches of wheat
country waiting patiently for people
and for plows. Had we spent in de-
veloping these rich liberty-loving re-
publics one tenth of the money we
have squandered on Al oriental archi-
peligo, we should be fatter OF purse
and less embarrassed through the re-
proaches we receive from home and
abroad for departing from the primary
principles Of democracy into the field
of colonial conquest.
The time has come when the contln-
ents OF the western hemisphere must
be brought into a commercial union.
Their resources and their people COM
PIGMENT each other. Latin Americans
are but small producers of coal and
iron, and their peonle are not endow-
ed with our inventive genius Their
farms will be titled with our imple-
ments, and their vast deposits of pre-
cious metals will be released by rails
from our rolling mills, They In turn
have vast forests OF woods we can not
6mnliFQfa fslhhAp
and silver and other things we need.
The South Americans are possessed Of
a SUMMER temperament than we. They
love literature, music, art, and the
graces ami charms OF life as we love
dollars Socy, Root put 1t well when
he said I'VE accumulate where they
SPEND In congress devoted solely
TO discussions OF commercial affairs.
II was gratifying to receive from
south American a spiritual value
placed on trade. The true Latin
American spirit was interpreted TO the
congress when Senior Enrique Cortes,
Minister from Colombia, said:
My view and my hope is that
wealth will be vanqulshed In its
struggle against spirituality, and that
this country which has been so rich
In surprises to the world, will in the
future, at no distant time, assume the
heretofore unknown attitude Of ma
ton becoming the uphoder of the high
principles Of morality and the virtue
OF justice. love, and good will not only
IN political and administrative way,
but likewise in its international re-
lations. BY assuming that position |
believe this great nation will attain
n
known In the history OF the world. and
that indeed, It win carry the pros
perity Of the nation to a point un-
known In the history of the great ma
tons OF the ancient and modern times.
The United States will never have
cause to complain OF the accumula-
ton Of TOO much justice and too much
love as you feel now that you have
too much wealth
II would be worth all the cost OF a
dozen fleets OF trade ships II we could
through them import 10 the United
states more OF that lofty spirit OF
international patrIotism-the kind of
patriotism the Trans Mississippi con-
gress In its frank crude, western way
Is trying to build and foster How
ever near we approach these ends
'A'N'NSh e'bot IL must ilpl De IOtROt-
ten that from Alaska to Patagonia
1t is all land. The fields of Kansas
and Texas and the mines Of Nevada
were never developed by ships. New
York and San Francisco had TO be
joined by cold ribs of steel before we
could talk Of oriental trade. So must
the North and South continents be
united by rail before the Kansas civ
prophesies can be made real. The
Pam American railroad, for so many
years under the direct supervision OF
such skilled builders as Col. Richard
G. Kerens Of st. Louis, Sen. Davis OF
West Virginia, and Pres. Cassatt Of
me pennsylvania railroad, is clear
~ the next great thing to do.
Kansas City, whose people are FAM
Gus for both hospitality and enterprise
VIII have no greater claim TO fame
than that II was the birthplace Of the
Pan American Commercial union. The
Trans Mississippi congress has ex-
banded its purpose from the promo