The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-21

of pressure being applied.
in the interest of peace while within
a short time both the casual would.
be belligerents acknowledge their
depth of gratitude to the party that
avoided blood-shed. Panamericanism
already has begun to remov from our
Continent the danger of internecine
it has averted for it, with one or two
exceptions only during nearly a hun
dred years the danger of conflicts
with Europe.
The Example Of the United States.
You asked me to speak of the les
sons and prophecies of the recent Pan
american Conference, and l have put
before you the brightest points I see
in the future of our Union. l did not
suggest the word prophecies you
chose it for me, perhaps, am afraid,
on the principle that old people see
better at a distance. Dante in his
poem makes those who saw much
in advance of their time look and walk
backwards. 1t is not only in after life
that prophets pass through that
change, we see every day eminent
men receding in the same retrograde
manner from their bold prophecies;
but those who prophecy peace and
good will among men, even if their
present outlook proves false, need
not fear having to loo and to walk
backwards in the road of human des-
tiny. Still the future of Panamerican-
ism. under it's present voluntary,
spontaneous. even effusive form, de-
ponds above all on the permalency
Of the spirit now ruling the governing
sphere of this country; that is a spirit
of sympathy towards the other Repub-
lies, a sentiment which combines YOU
national chivalrousness with your
sense of continental kilship. No great
er example of it could be pointed out
than that of your sitting together with
our Republics at a council where your
vote is every day neutralized by n
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building for the future on the most
perfect level, of bringing about be-
tween us that highest kind of mutual
goodwill, which the greek phfloso-
pher so beautifully called unanimity,
being of one mind.
All Washington's Children.
Gentlemen, it is a commanding DO
sition that which you occupy in the
world, but more han of the respect
of the strongest you may feel proud
of the confidence with which the ma
lions of this Continent cluster around
you. Last year l had the honor to
speak at Grand Rapids, near the shore
of another of you lakes, On Lincoln's
day; this time was asked to address
you on Washington's day. l regret
that the date had to be changed, but
any day in O IL year is appropriate
to place a great cause under Wash
ington's patronage. No greater glory
could be conceived thar his of having
resuscitated in the modern world the
tradition of national rulers, magis-
trates, not masters, of the people
which since the days of Cicero had
entirely disappeared for nearly two
thousand years. 1t is Washington who
at the end of the XVIII. Century opens
the second Renaissance, that of free |
DOM and more fortunate than the
great artists of the Italian Renais- |
sance, who could not equal the master
pieces they copied, he surpassed his
great models by making of modern lib
erty a much loftier structure than
any that could be raised On the mar
row foundations of ancient democracy. |
He thus became the founder of tae
modern political era; he breathed the
spirit of freedom upon our continent.
that respect we, the peoples of
America, are all as much Washing
tons children as we are Columbus
children. These are the two figures
ought t. stand in Washington at
of our future Hall of Am
Peace, to keep clear in our
minds the recollection of a common |