The Washington herald., 1907-11-26

Americans are a proud people that they
I have been schOOled for a thousand years
/ in customs which are utterly foreign 10
| Angio-Saxon Institutions. and that they
I DO not admit that they are in anywise
I inferior 10 him who speaks English
They are proud Of their history. and Il
cuts them % the quick 10 find that the av-
I erage man from the United States is pro-
f0Undly surprised when he is told there
/ 5 "a history in Latin America. A cultured
gentleman, "ho has been graduated from
q Latin-American university. established
before there was q white man in all the
/ United States. is not particularly pleased
when gentleman from Indiana. selling
plows. IS astOunded by the fact that there
/ are schools at al I'm South America This
( Latin gentleman may recognize the fact
that the Hoosier plow is the best in the
world but he prefers TO deal with some
one who is a bit more considerate OF the
feelings Of others The Yankee has but
I 10 learn Spanish. employ tact and huale
+ 70 make commercial conquest Of Latin
America, but he must do these three
things.
/ The Pan-American railway scheme IS
often looked upon as impracticable but
( 1t is not nearly so great a tax upon
credulity as was the first transconti-
mental railroad in this country. Every
country through which the proposed line
IS % run Is encouraging che construc-
ton OF railways which will some time
form links in the chain Thar Will connect
Alaska with Patagonia New York with
I BuenOs AyrCs- some great railway man
has said that diamonds would not pay as
I freight from Argentina 10 New York So
/ did great railroad man say that the
I Atchison road would never buy its own
/ axle grease
/ The Pan-American railway plan has
men ike Andrew Carnegie and Henry
/ Gassaway Davis behind il. and il viii
/ not be permitted 70 die. u VIII take
years 70 build the system. but there j.
no doubt that some day it viii be com
: pieted- The estimated cost OF supplying
+ the missing links at this time IS Jess
I than the amount spent by the railroads
I IN terminal facilities IN New York. Bos-
/ ton. Philadelphia and Washington.
When that railroad IS finished il VIII
naturally develop local business which Is
/ now unheard OF. Just as the Pacific rail-
ways and the Great Northern built I'D
new empires. In that day the United
/ states viii need TO supply eAe wants OF
/ the Quickened business life Of the Latin
I countries Far-seeing men agree that
/ Eow is the time 10 begin the work II
I one-tiftieth of the money the United
/ States has spent 10 develop lis trade i1
Asia had been expended in Latin Amer
I lea the battle would even now be won
/ and the American republics would be
! united In reciprocal trade relations which
\ would benefit the material condition OF
every man, woman, and child in tie
/ Western hemisphere.
| The unificstion OF al the American re-
4 publcs has been dream never quite
+ blotted out from the minds Of men. The
! Pan-American conferences held in Wash
ington- in Mexico, and in Rio De Janeiro
had to do only with trade and fiscal
questions The FIRST Congress Of Ameri-
can Nations had a much more ambitious
/ programme. IL was called 10 meet at
I Panama in 1876. and delegates from each
( Of the newly formed Spanish republics
were II attendance.
II was proposed TO form an American
I Confederation. 90 be a league offensive
/ and defensive in war. and mutually benefi-
cent in peace. The city or Panama was
( 20 be the capital. and the administration
was TO be vested in a national council
/ composed OF two deputies from each re-
4 public. SO certain OF the success Of the
I scheme We're the New Granada sta1e
/ builders that they carefully pointed ont
/ the advantages possessed by the city OF
I Panama as an ideal capital OF the world.
! The United states was asked to send DEL
I egates. and two were appointed by Presi-
dent John Quincy Adams. Martin Van
Buren led the night In the Senate against
I hpf grrr7r rffarr rr-H f~ Fr-
! months. One OF the delegates died on
| the way 10 Panama. and the other arrived
/ after the Congress had adjourned
/ The declaration and maintenance Of the
/ Monroe doctrine has made the twenty
| one American republics so close OF kin
in international politics. that all Of them
! desire closer relations in a domestic way.
/ The colleges Of the United States are be-
| ginning 20 pay some atteatiou To Latin
! American history The Latin-American
schools have always taught our history
| with their own The travel between the
/ Latin countries and the United States is
/ very small. and the lack OF good steam
/ snip facilities keeps II from growing. but
| II Is, nevertheless. true that greater
/ interchange OF travel and literature IS
being made nov than ever before
South America is a land Of wonderful
resources 1t is land OF unknown
wealth. It Is "the land OF tomorrow
Turn TO this field the great genius OF
that people which has made the heart of
/ the North American continent blossom
/ like unto no other land since the gates
/ were closed on the Garden of Eden, and
the reward VIII be greater than man
dares TO predict.
TO-morrOw-The Science of Ex-
positions.
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