Arizona republican., 1907-12-04

sincere. No pains were spared to manifest the most friendly attitude and feeling toward the United States.
 Tn view of the close neighborhood of the two countries the relations which exist between Mexico and the United States are just cause for grati- fication. We have a common bound ary of over 1.500 miles from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. Much of it is marked only by the shifting waters of the Rio Grande. Many thousands of Mexicans are residing upon our side of the line and it is es- timated that over 10000 Americans are residents in Mexican territory and that American investments in Mexico amount to over seven hundred million dollars. The extraordinary industrial and commercial prosperity. of Mexico has been greatly promoted by American enterprise. and Americans are shaing largely in its results. The foreign trade of the Republic already exceeds $240,00O.00O per annum. and of this rwo-thirds both exports and i'm ports are exchanged with the United | numerous questions are always ap preached and disposed of in a spirit of mutual courtesy and fair dealing. Americans carrying on business in ] Mexico testify uniformly to the kind ness and consideration with which they are treated and their sense of the security of their property and enter prises under the wise administration of the great statesman who has so long held the office of Chief Magis- trate of the Republic.
 The two Governments have been uniting their efforts for considerable time epast to aid Central America in attaining the degree of peace and order which have made possible the pros- perity of the northern parts of the Continent. After the peace between Guatemala. Honduras, and Salvador. lcelebrated under the circumstances de- scribed in my last Message. a new war broke out between the Republics of | Nicaragua, Honduras. and Salvador. The effort to compose this new diff culty has resulted in the acceptance | of the joint suggestion of the Presi- dents of Mexico and of the United States for a general peace conference between all the countries of Central America. On the 17th day of Sept ember last a protocol was signed be- tween the representatives of the five lCentral American countries accredited to this Government agreeing upon a conference to be held in the City of Washington in order to devise the the means of preserving the good re- apd bringing about permanent peace in those countries" The protocol in cludes the expression of a wish that the Presidents of the United States and Mexico should appoint "represen- tatives to lend their good and inn partial offices in a purely friendly way toward the realization of the ob- jects of the conference" The confer
 ence is now in session and will have our best wishes and, where it is prac- ticable, our friendly assistance.
 The American Republics.
 "One of the results of the Pan Amer
 ican Conference at Rio Janeiro in the
 summer of 1906 has been a great in crease in the activity and usefulnes of the International Bureau of Ameri- lean Republics. That institution, which
 includes all the American Republics in
 it's membership and brings all their representatives together. is doing a
 really valuable work in informing the Ipeople of the United States about the
 other Republics and in making the
 United States known to them. It's ac-
 tion is now limited by appropriations
 determined when it was doing work lon a much smaller scale and rendering
 much less valuable service. I recom-
 mend that the contribution of this
 Government to the expenses of the
 Bureau be made commensurate with it's increased work"