Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-09-26
MEXICO PLANS
OVATION TO
ROOT
SECRETARY STARTS ON
LONG SOUTHERN TRIP
Visit Marks Dawn Of an Era Of
Closer Relations Between
This Country and NeighborS
in Latin America,

Washington, Sept. 25.-Secretary
Root left at 3:40 O'Clock this after
| noon to visit President Diax. of Mex
| leo. He travelled i'm the private car
Sgnet. attached to the regular Pcnn-
| sylvania railway train With him were
| Mrs Root, Miss Root and Percival
Gassett his private secretary,
! According to Mr.. Roots itinerary. he
| will arrive in St Louis at 7:10 tomor-
row. From there he will go to Texar-
kama, Texas, and thence via Longview
and Palestine. to San Antonio The
| train is due to reach the Alamo city
at $3.50 Saturday morning. He will
make a brief stop there and viii be
given luncheon by the international
club He will reach Laredo, Texas, on
the Rio Grande. Saturday afternoon,
and will there cross to NueVo Laredo,
Mexico, where he will board President
| DiaZ' private train, which will be sent
to meet him and transport him on his
! triumphal trip to the capital The
1 first important stop in Mexico will be
at San Luis Potosi Sunday afternoon.
/ He will reach the City of Mexico at
| $3.50 Monday evening Reports re-
ceived here from Mexico state that the
| trip through the southern republic
will be a continuous ovation for the
secretary of state Band serenades
| have been arranged for every stopping
place. The program in Mexico City
| includes numerous receptions, ban
quets and speech making, to continue
almost without intermission during
/ the secretarys stay. At the time of
Secretary Roots visit Mexico will also
| be entertaining another distinguished
visitor, General Morteza Kahn. the
( Persian minister plenipotentiary to the
United states, and a world-famous Of
| ficer of the shah's army.
| That Secretary Roots visit to Mex
| leo is considered significant, as mark
| ing a policy of bringing about closer
and more fraternal relations between
! the United States and its Spanish
| American neighbors, is shown in the
| official announcement Of the visit is
sued to twenty American states by the
bureau of American republics. II is
as follows:
THE visit to Mexico of Hon. Elihu
| Root, secretary of state of the United
/ States and chairman of the governing
| board Of the bureau of American re-
publics, in response TO the invitation
| of President Diaz, will be an impor-
tant and logical complement TO his
tour of South America in 1906. The
| preparations made by the Mexican
government and people to make his
stay among them notable, show that
there Is great interest in this event
of international significance 1t will
! be another step in the broad policy
| initiated by the present administra-
! tion of the United States government
to get into closer sympathetic touch
with the governments and peoples of
| the other American nations. Although
Mexico is geographically nearer to the
United States than any other Latin
American nation. the people at large
Of the United States have not yet fully
awakened TO the remarkable material
development of that republic, and to
its general progress along many diff
| ferent lines of political, economic,
educational and social development.
Just as Secretary Roots journey to
South America turned the eyes of
| North America to that part of the
world and provided a clearer vision of
| It's mighty potentialities, so now there
will be corresponding direction of
attention to Mexico and Central Amer
lea"