The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-12
KNOX SAYS PANAMA CANAL
WILL INCREASE FRIENDSHIP

PANAMA, February 2S.-Secretary
of State p. c. Knox made in Panama
tonight the first of his public adj
dresses on his trip to the capitals of
Central America, northern South
America and the West Indies.
This speech, while delivered before
the acting president of Panama, Senior
Rodolfo CHAR, was in reality ad-
dressed to all the countries he will
visit, asd includes an explanation of
the attitude of the United States to-
ward South and Central America.
Knox said the President believed the
early completion of the canal should
mark the beginning of closer rela-
lions between the United States and
all Latin America; that the purpose
of the United States toward all the
American republics was to live in am
ity and essential harmony, and that
the United States desired more peace,
more prosperity, more happiness and
more security in their national lives,
He declared the United States craved
neither sovereignty nor sought terri,
tory in Latin America
Knox's address, in part, follows:
ut is an honor and a sincere pleas
ure, Mr.. President, to be your guest
and be recipient of the cordial wei
come of Panama. 1t is a privilege to
stand upon the threshold of the con
summation of the greatest work done
by man and to feel that one is not a
stranger upon the soil dedicated from
the creation to be the scene of the
supreme effort for human advance
ment when mans requirements de
manded it, and mans genius SHOULD
be equal to the task.
To Mark Closer Relations
THE President of the United States
believes that the early completion o.
the Panama canal should mark the
beginning of closer relations to al
Latin America, as well as the rela
tions of these countries to each other
and impelled by the thought that this
is an suspicious moment, through
better acquaintance, to lay the foun
dation upon which there should res
a broader confidence, a closer sympa
thy and more practical reciprocal
helpfulness, has sent me hither as {
bearer of a message of good will t
our sister American republics.
ut is the Presidents desire that
might meet personally your mos
hospitable peoples; might see you
beautiful countries to the end tina
such direct personal knowledge Nigh
result in mutual advantage and in co
| operation for the development of al
our countries. take this opportun
ity of assuring all the American re
publics that the purpose of tn
United States toward them is tia
we should live in amity, and that w
desire only that more peace and NOR
prosperity should come into their in
dividual and national lives.
"While it Is entirely clear to thos
who have considered intelligently tn
history of the relations of the Unite
States to the other American repul
lies that our policies have been with
out a trace of sinister motive, yet
is true that our motives toward yo
have not always been Interpreted fol
tunately either at home or faithful
represented by some of our national
who have resided in your midst
What Canal Opening Means.
much has Deen said about the ei
feet of the opening of the Panam
Canal, but I believe it to he given t
few of us to realize what magic pos
sibilities are potential in that even
1t will create for our Western worl
an entirely new situation, fraugh
with possibilities so vast as to daz
the fancy. In this new world we mus
be found drawn closer by sympathie
and mutual esteem and working
harmony toward beneficent ends
I'VE who live on the Western hen
isphere find ourselves by force of e.