The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-03-07
Between the United States
and All Latin-America
Says Knox. IL

PARMA, Feb. 2s-secretary OF
State P. G Knox, who has just ar
rived on the Isthumus, made in
Panama the first of his public ad-
dresses on the trip that will take
him, before his return to Washing
ton, to all capitals of Central Amer
lea, and to Northern South America
and the West Indies ,
This speech. while delivered be-
fore the president Of Panama. Senior
Pablo Arosemena, was in reality ad-
dressed to all the countries the Sec
rotary expects to visit, and included
an explanation OF the attitude OF the
United States towards South and
Central America, particularly in
connection with the building of the
Panama canal. Mr.. Knox said that
the president OF the United States
believed that the 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
toward all the American republics
was to live in amity 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 ter
ritory in Latin-America, and that
there was much in common between
the older and the younger repun-.
lies. thtf Re !s
Mr.. Knox's address follows:
1T is an honor and sincere
pleasure. Mr.. President, to be your
guest and the recipient of the cor
dial welcome of Panama. 1t is
privilege to stand upon the threshold
of the contamination 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
,hc supreme effort for human adj
vancement when mans require
ments demanded 1t and mans genius
should be equal to the task,
When the necessities -ot==the
worlds first civilization, could be no
longer supplied and, Its .aspirations
no longer satisfied inc its oriental
abode it was natural that the pio-
neers Of those days should make.
their first expectations by following.
the path Of the 1ife-gving sun in its
daily journeys towards heiWest.'s
The fruits of their first timfd
ventures, ,emboidened them to. more
ambitious endeayor, and the ever in
creasing rewards, resulting from
the discovery of continents and seas,
beckoned them. onauntil halted. here
by another world they seemed to
have fulfilled their missionrof COM
panlon disco1erers with the sun
which passed on in solitude towards
and into the unknown.
ut was not until 1913 when Bal.
boa stood silent upon peake 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 it possible to
divide the hemisphere which halted
western progress, even as Moses had
divided the Red Sea that the chill
dren of Israel nigh pass, and
though the hands of early naviga-
tors we're unskiIIed for the gigantic
task, their imaginatIons grasped
the possibility of it's successful real
ization. s3rs5.s
1.-The history of the project to
build the Isthmian canal is full of
strange national and personal dis
appointments. Perhaps the best
tragic of them all is. that, coinci-
dent with spain's loss OF the last
vestige OF her sovereignty in the
new world, the final act of the real
ization of the dreams OF her great
navigators began,
"After many vicissitudes and fall
ures the completion of the stipend
ous work devolved upon the people