New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-11
DIPLOMAT SAYS J.. s.
MUST RULE CARIBBEAN
If We Do Not. He Declares.
Republics Will Call On
Europe to Intervene.
ROOSEVELT HITS MEXICO
Asserts That He Will Always
Denounce Revolutions in
Countries Unfit for
Self Rule.

Buenos Ayres. Nov l0.-The university
to-day conferred the honorary degree Of
Doctor Of Laws on Colonel Roosevelt. In
an address at the ceremony the former
Foreign Minister Estanislao Zeballos.
eulogized the ex-President Of the United
States and his policy toward Panama.
The speaker gave il as his opinion that
the United states must dominate i'm the
Caribbean Sea. otherwise the republics in
that section would invite European inter
vention.
Senor Xeballos declared that the hom-
age done by Argentina to Canning was
uncalled for. and suggested that the name
Of Canning given to a street in Buencs
Ayres should be changed TO that Of Mon
roe who saved the independence OF all
America.
lie declared that nowadays the Argen-
tine Republic did not accept the protec-
tior of the Monroe Doctrine. but II did
acctp t the Pan-Amercanism This did
not mean hostility to Europe. however
as that continent supplied both immigra-
ton and capital.
Colonel Roosevelt. i'm his reply. recog
nized that Argentina did not need the
protection of the Monroe Doctrine.
we should have regard for Europe.
said the ex-President, but, above all. We
should be citizens of our own countries
] will always derounce revolutions I'm
countries where the people are unable TO
govern themselves
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt this evening
delivered an address at the Colon Theatre
before the Museo Social Argentina. taking
for his subject Truths and Half Truths
His speech WAS a continuation OF the
recital OF his political creed. a portion Of
which he outlined on November T. when
he told of the work that he and his FOL
lowers had set themselves 10 accomplish
in the United States
In part. Colonel Roosevelt said:
AT present I'm the world Of industry
the difference in the reward OF the man
at the top and Of the man lover down is
often welingh infinite. and represents a
travesty upon Justice. And, moreover,
the difference between the reward given
the man who merely handles the money
and the reward given the man who actu-
wholly dsproportlonate TO the difference
Of service
we propose, sanely and cautiously. hut
resolutely. 10 strive 10 reduce this Inc
quality and TO bring about condition Of
affairs more nearly corresponding to jus
tice.
we are not Ctopians. We know that in
spite OF all that government can do the
prime factor in any mans life will be in
the future as IL has been In the past that
mans own character But We believe that
government can do much; and We Intend
to make IL "A most potent instrument In
working for the uplifting OF mankind.
We believe that we can make things
reasurably better. partly by our own IN
dIvidual efforts, partly by our joint action.
through the government OF otherwise.
I'VE do not intend 10 destroy individ-
ualism. We intend to further It's develop
ment. But we intend that IL shall be de-
veIoped as the servant and not the master
Of man. All the most highly developed
nations OF the modern era are profoundly
affected. for veal and FOR woe. by the
play Of the blind, tremendous forces
which have produced. and are being pro-
duced by. the complex industrial ciyiliza-
ton OF to-day.
I'VE refuse TO sit. cowed and supine.
before the changing play OF these vast
dim powers. Men OF valiant soul must be
the lords and not the servants Of what
they have themselves created