The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-29
TWO CONTINENTS
 DRAWING CLOSER Senor Nabuco Speaks of Friendly American Nations MORAL ALLIANCE FORMED Brazilian Ambassador Declares That North and South American Repub-
 lies Are United In Progress
 and Interests.
MORAL ALLIANCE FORMED

Chicago, August 2S.-Senor Joaquin Na- buco, Brazilian ambassador to the United States was the principal speaker this aft ernoon at the sixty-eghth convection of the University of Chicago, when 1855 de- Erees were conferred. Senor Nabuco' s subject was '"rhe Mutual Approach of the Americas"
 Senor Nabuco said in part:
 T am proud to address this university worthy of q city which, for its sudden gigantic growth, is the wonder of the world and which is the foremost of all the great experiment stations of Ameri- canization. l am proud to take the honor as distinguished personal obligation, but allow me to see in it chiefly a sign of your sympathy with the work of draw ing the two Americas closer together Much as the future generations will won der at the progress of our time, they will wonder still more that the two great sections of cur continent remained so late in history almost unknown to each other. One reason of their isolation was that many spirits in Latln-America were for long time afraid of a too close contact with you, owing to the great difference of power between this and every other American nation. You, with your high civilization, can do no wrong to any na- tion. Intimate contact with you will, under whatever circumstances, bring only good and progress to the other party.
 The only certain effect 1 can see of a permanent and intimate intercourse Of Latin-America with you Is that it would be slowly Americanized--that is, that 1t would be in different measures penetrated with your optimism, your self-relahce and your energy.
 T would not end If 1 attempted to mention all the good that LatnAmerica would derive from a close intercourse with the United States. What you per- haps would prefer to hear is what good you would derive from that intercourse. l will tell you frankly that good would be at first only the good that comes from making friends and helping them into the true road of life; but l believe there IS no more substantial good than that Tor a nation.
 "rhe question is to know if you have made up your mind that this continent should be for each of its nations pro- longation of her native soil that some kind of tie should make of it a single moral unit in history. Was the Monroe doctrine inspired to you only by the fear of seeing Europe extend its parallel spheres of influence over America as IL has later done over Africa, and as 1t all most succeeded in doing over Asia, en- dangering in that way your solitary po- sition, or were you moved by the ln- tuition that this is a new world. born with a common destiny? l strong believe that the Monroe doctrine was inspired even more by this American instinct, taking the word American in the sense of con tinental, than by any fear of danger to yourselves.
 'You keep away from the entangling alliances which the father of your country deprecated, and yet a concentration of the American republics with the idea that they all form under different flags single political system is already a moral al lance"