The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-02-22
BRAZILIAN AMBASSADORS IDEA
joaquin Nabuco Believes South American Republics Should
be Drawn in Close Union With the
United States.

The following is the address of Mr..
Joaquin Nabuco, ambassador from
Brazil, delivered at Buffalo on the
night of February goth, before the
Liberal club of that city.
Gentlemen:
You may be sure l fully realize
what distinction it is for me to be
in the place where l find myself to-
night, but have read the names %
those who have addressed you since
your foundation and l can not help
fearing the ordeal of having my name
added to that list. l could not thank
you enough for this great opportunity;
it shows clearly enough your interest
in the work of bringing together the
American republics. That looks to
me as a hopeful sign. take it as
announcing that the only insurmount-
able obstacle to that work, which
would be Indifference on the part OF
this country begins to give place to
different frame of mind. National
Indifference towards anything that re-
sembles foreign policy can be easily
understood on your part; interstate
politics seems here as sufficient as
interstate trade; you are world by
yourselves, but even the universe is
interdependent, and now that, through
repeated reflex movements, the politi-
cal interdependence of our globe is
more keenly felt everywhere, in Eng
land as in Japan, in Germany or
France as much as in China or Per-
STA, it is natural also that this ma
ton show signs of awaking to the
consequences of her position in the
American system am glad your
great city is one of the first to ac-
knowledge the importance of the new
movement and that you called upon
me to speak on the lessons and pro-
phesies of the third Panamerican con-
ference.
Mr.. Root.
AS its president all l can tell you
is that its surface was as smooth as
possible. but your distinguished fellow
citizen, Mr.. Buchanan, the head. of the
American delegation, who SO ably and
silently worked in the recess of the
committees, could tell you, feel sure,
that the depths were as still as the
surface. To that quiet nothing has
contributed more than the attitude OF
the secretary of state, as the head of
the Washington Panamerican board,
when the plans for the meeting were
laid out, and than his personal visit
to the seat of the conference and to
other South American capitals. Mr..
Root was indeed the ideal representa-
tive this country could send on such
mission. His sincerity, his earnest
ness, his love of equity, his high-mind-
edness. his considerateness, together
with his powerful intellect, and with
what, in the broader geographical
sense of the word, can be called his
genuine Americanism, most gener-
GUS sympathy with all the nations of
our continent, could not fail to create
among them an impression of conf
dence likely to last long after his
passage. He went to us animated
with the spirit of a Blaine, yet speak
ing the language of a Marshall. His
words were received everywhere as
politicaf oracles, studied as constitu-
tional lessons On the nature and the
working of the institutions we all
copied from you. With his presence
our nations well realized that your
secretaries of state are still cast on
the same mould as in the times of
the Jeffersons, the Monroes, the Web
sters and the Clays. That above all
has assured the success of the Rio
conference.
United America Deliberating In Com.
mon.
What chiefly characterized it was
the friendly intercourse established
between the great sections of our con-
tinent, which seemed to meet at the
two first conferences under the sense
of some danger to come from asso-
ciating together. President Roose-
velt's message has already accentuat-
ed that difference, and this is the first
lesson of the Rio meeting. We may
feel sure that henceforth each new
celebration of those American festi-
walls will more and more develop the
sentiment, the instinct, of continental
confraternity. The repeated assem-
bling of our nations will force them
to exchange their views, to smooth
away their mutual difficulties, to real
ize more vivddly their natural kinship.
The organ was created in advance of
the feeling it was destined to evolve,
but now it is evolving it. Mr. Root
completed Mr.. Blaine, ne converted
the dream into reality. In every
creation there is of necessity much