The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-28
IN HIS SPEECH AT PANAMA
Secretary of State Declared 1t Is United
States Plan to Have More Peace,
More Prosperity, More Happi-
ness, More Security.

/ washington, TO all the capitals OF Cen
trail America, and to northern Soutl
American and the West Indies.
| This speech while delivered before tn,
president OF Panama, Senior Pablo Arc
semena, was in reality addressed to al
the countries the secretary expects t.
visit, and included an explanation of tn,
attitude of the United States toward,
South and Central America, particular,
in connection with the building of the
! Panama canal. Mr.. Knox said the presi
dent of the United States believed that
the early completion of the canal should
mark the beginning of closer relations
/ between the United States and all Latin
America; that the purpose of the United
/ States towards all the American repub-
lies was to ike in amity and essential
1 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 sovereign
! ty nor territory in Latin America, and
that there was much in common between
the older and the younger republic ON
| this continent.
Mr.. knoXs address follows;
1T is an honor and sincere pleasure.
Mr.. President, to be your guest and the
recipient of the cordial welcome of Pan.
anna. 1t is a privilege to stand upon
the threshold OF the consummati0n of
the greatest work done by man in or for
the world 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 advancement
when mans requirements demanded il
and mans genius should be equal to
the task
when the necessities of the worlds
first civilization could be no longer sup
piled and its aspirations no longer sat
isfied in its oriental abode it was nat
ural that the pioneers of those days
should make their first explorations by
following the path Of the life-giving sun
in its daily journeys towards the West.
"The fruits Of their first timid ven
lures emboldened them to more ambi-
tions endeavor and the eyer-increasing
rewards, resulting from the discovery Of
continents and seas, beekoned them on
until halted here by another world they
seemed TO have fulfilled their mission Of
companion discoveries with the sun
which passed on in solitude towards and
into the unknown
at was not until 1913. when Balboa
stood silent upon peak in Darien' and
gazed upon the waters OF the Pacific that
it was evident that the hand that gave
the seas and formed the land left il
possible to divide the hemisphere which
halted western progress, even as Moses
had divided the Red sea that the chill.
dren Of Israel might pass. and though
the hands OF the early navigators were
unskilled for the gigantic task. their inn
aginations grasped the possibility OF its
successful realization.
"The history OF the project to build
the isthman canal is full of strange
national and personal disappointments.
Perhaps the best tragic Of them all is
that, coincident with SPANS loss OF the
last vestige of her sovereignty in the
new world, the final act of the realiza
ton of the dreams of her great naviga- |
tors began.
after many vicssitudes and failures |
the completion of this stupendous work |
devolved upon the people of the United
States, who are thus thrown into rela. /
tions with the countries of the isthmian |
region which, with our geographical pro-
pinquity, make a broader understanding /
and more sympathetic reciprocal in |
terest between us an essential basis for
the realization of the splendid possibili- |
ties which seem to have been decreed |
from the beginning of time.
"The president of the United States
believes that the early completion OF the
Panama canal should mark the begin
ming of closer relations to all Latin
America and especially of the Caribbean
ittoraI, as well as the relations of these
80 each other. and, impelled
BY the thought that this is an suspicious
through better acquaintance to
ay the foundations upon which there
should rest a broader confidence. closer
and more practical reciprocal
ielpfuluess, has sent me hither as a
,earer of message of good will to our
lister American republic. II is the
Presidents desire that l might person
lily meet your most hospitable peoples,
night see for myself your beautiful
ountries with their boundless resources
nd economic possibilities, to the end
hat such direct personal knowledge, I'M
Outstanding, and appreciation might re-
ult in mutual advantage and in CO.
peration for the development of all our
ountries. Responding to the hospital
ty of the country which has first and
0 generously received me and with which
he relations of my country are so cor
tally intimate / take this opportunity
f assuring all the American republics
hat the purpose of the United States
owards them is that we should live in
nifty and essential harmony and that
'e desire only that more peace, more
rosperity, more happiness and more Sc
urity should come into and become
art of their individual and national
YES.
"WIiile it is entirely clear to those
no have fairly and intelligently eonsid.
red the history of the relations of the
nited States to the other American re-
ublics that our policies have been with
Mt trace of sinister motive or design,
'aving neither sovereignty nor terri
Try, yet il is true that our motives
wards you have not always been for
inately interpreted either at home or
Iithfully represented by some of our ma
onality who have resided in your midst.
"While we have much to learn of each
her and are all to be vastly profited
7 clear and more sympathetic ties, yet