Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-05-26
GREAT PAC|F|CATOR
IS UNITED STATES
BOLIVIAN MINISTER PRAISES
WORK OF Mr.. ROOT AS
SECRETARY OF STATE.
SELF GOVERNMENT AN ART TO
BE LEARNED-AR5iTRATioN
THE DESiDERATUM.

Mohonk Lake, n. Y, May 20-Ad-
dressing the Lake Mohonk conference
| on international arbitration last night,
Senior Don lgnacio Calderon, Bolivian
| Minister to the United States. praised
| the work of Mr.. Root as Secretary of
State, TO which, he declared, was due
in large measure not only the pres
ent amicable relations between the
American nations, but also the fact
that South America was represented
| in the second Hague conference, and
that the conference prohibited the col
lection of contract debts by force with
out an offer of arbitration. He ex-
pressed great satisfaction at the ap-
pointment of DR.. Drago, of the Argen-
tine Republic. as one of the arbitra-
tors on the Hague tribunal that will
try the Newfoundland fisheries ques-
ton describing the appointment as
"a step forward through the open par
ticipation of American nationalities q
the common labor of confirming the
reign of international Justice" He
also cited Mr. Roots work in the es-
adjustment of amicable relations
with Colombia and Venezuela. the
pacification of the Central American
republics. the agreements for smooth
ing out the custom house chickering's
with Germany and France. and the de-
lineation of a policy of concord and
mutual consideration with Japan and
China All these actss' he added,
bear in themselves the seal of a per
feet and admirable spirit of loyalty
and good faith, statesman's most
glorious crest.
The American continent" said Min
lister Calderon lis without doubt the
land most appropriate for the propa-
CATION and establishment of interna-
tional arbitration as an invariable
standard for the solution of every
kind of difference.
In Europe the system of continen- |
tai equilibrium, traditional rivalries in |
supremacy. diversity in political con-
situations and many other causes of
divergence make more difficult the |
complicated the adoption OF arbitra |
ton. In matters affecting their natu-
raj self-loye. their preponderancy and |
historical antagonisms, it is scarcely !
10 be hoped that solution will be
sought outside the arbitrament of
war
Concerning the nations Of South and |
Central America, the speaker said:
"Much have the Spanish-American
republics been criticised and blamed
for the spirit of disorder supposed to
dominate them forgetting that the
customs and the education received
from the mother country were not the
same as were incu'cated in the Eng
lish colonists Of North America, for,
according TO the apt observation of
Mr. Root the capacity for self-goyern-
ment is not a natural gift to man, but
an art to be learned. This laborious
apprentices ship having passed, the
greatest number of the republics to
cav pressed on. with feet firm planted
In the road OF evolution and progress.
This is attest ed by the incl easr ~
their foreign commerce. the de1'elop-
meEt OF their WAYS Of communication.
the impulse given to pub &c lnstTuc-
lion ard the free and fair exercise Of
he rigi OF suffrage. pledge OF order
and good government This ever IN
creas.uE movement Of Os,ress fore
tells future -. Of greatness ana
welj being
There is nothing in the interna.
t!onaI relations OF the American re-
pgllics WATCH sbou lead them to
other than q peaceful settlement OF
thel, differences. The vexatsous ques-
tioas o. boundaries sources OF much
heated feeirE ard In past years ooca-
sioas Of serious conflict. have been al.
rcadv. or are now in process Of being
settlcd BY arbitration.