The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-11-05
some PLAIN TALK
HUMANITY and JUSTICE Must Be
Our KEYNOTE
DEALING With OTHERS

60GCr6 SONtQcSA SOlAAucIS@A SOu'
Gess in Mobile, Referring to Poll.
cy Toward Mexico and South Amer.
ican Republics.
The following Is President Wilson s
address, which was delivered at Mo-
bile before the Southern Commercial
Congress Monday. After declaring his
interest in all things Southern the
president added, "but to-day I do
not need to speak for the South. She
has perhaps acquired the gift OF
speaking for herself. I come because
want to speak Of our present and
prospective relations with our neigh
bors to the south.
81 deemed it public duty as we'll
as a personal pleasure to be here to
express for myself and for the gov
srnment I represent the welcome we
all feel to those who represent the
I.atin-Americal States. The future,
ladies' and gentlemen, is going to be
very different for this hemisphere
from the past. These states lying to
the south Of US, which have always
been our neighbors, will now be
drawn closer to US by innumerable
ties, and I hope, chief Of all, by the
tie of q common understanding.
Interest does not tie nations to-
sether. It sometimes separates them;
but sympathy and understanding do
unite them. And I believe that by this
new route that Is just about to be
opened, while We physically cut two
continents asunder, we spiritually
unite them. This is q spiritual union
which we seek, wonder II you real
ize, wonder il your imaginations
have been filed with the significance
Of the tides Of commerce.
'These great tides, which have
been running along parallels Of lat
titude will now swing southwark
athwart parallels Of latitude,
and that opening gate at the Isthmus
Of Panama will open the world to a
commerce that she has not known
before commerce Of thought and
sympathy between North and South;
and the Latin-Americar States which
60 their disadvantage, have been on
the main lines, will now be on the
main lines. I feel that these gentle
men honoring us with their presence
to-day will presently find that some
part, at any rate, OF the centre OF
gravity Of the world has shifted. Do
you realize that New York, for ex-
ample, viii be nearer the western
coast 81 South America than she Is
now to the eastern coast Of South
America?
ssThere is one peculiarly about the
history Of the Latin-American States
which am sure they are keenly
aware Of. You hear Of concessions to
foreign capitalists in Latin-America
You do not hear Of concessions to
foreign capitalists in the United
States. They are not granted con
cessions. They are invited to make
investments. The work Is ours
though they are welcome to invest IN
Il. We do not ask them to supply
the capital and do the work. It Is an
invitation not a privilege; and States
that are obliged. because their terri:
tory does not lie within the main
fleld Of modern enterprise and &C
ton, to grant concessions are IN this
condition: That foreign interests are
ant to dominate their domestic at
fairs. A condition Of affairs always
dangerous and apt to become 'ntol'
erable.
"What these States are going to
see. therefore. Is al emancipation
from the subordination which has
been inevitable to foreign enterprise
and an assertion Of the splendid
= character which. in spite OF these
difficulties. thev have again and again
been able to demonstrate. The dig
nifty. the courage. the self-possession
the respect OF the Latin-Americau
States. their achievements in the face
of all these adverse circumstances
deserve nothing but the admiration
and applause Of the world. They
have had harder bargains driven
with them In the matter Of loans
than any other people in the world
Interest has been exacted OF them
that was not exacted OF ANYBODY else
because the risk was said to be great
or. and then securities were taken
that DESTROYED the risks. An admira'
bic arrangement for those who were
forcing the terms. I rejoice in moth
Inc 80 much as in the prospect that
thev will now be emancinated from
these conditions. and we ought to be
the first to take part IN assisting IN
that emanciDation. think some OF
these gentlemen already who have
had occasion to deal with the denarf'
p1ent Of State in recent monrhs c8n
testify It has tried to serve them IN
that wise. In the future thew Will
draw closer and closer to us because
Of circumstances Of which I wish to
sneak, with moderation, and, I hope,
without indiscretion.
1--WE must prove ourselves their
friends and chamnions. nnor terms
OF ennaIi+v and honor. Yon can not
be friends unon anv other terms than
upon the terms Of equality. You
can not he friends at all evcept unon
the terms Of honor. and we mnsf
show ourselves friends bv connre-
hendlre their Interest whether y
snuares with onr interest or not. II
"a vArv nerfIors thing to determine
the foreign nolicv or nation IN the
terms Of material interest. 1t NOT