Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-11-14
Phone No. ; I
Mr.. Wilson's Famous Mobile
Speech.

Southern Commercial Congress-
and the big audience which
heard him constantly was swept
with cheers and applause. The
president smilingly took his
hearers into his confidence he
explained he must speak with
moderation and without indis-
cretion. "
The president was in tearing
rush the moment he reached the
city until he left and if any dis
patches of State reached him,
they were deferred until he
reached the seclusion of his
train. In his address Mr.. Wilson
spoke of his interest in all things
southern.
but today / do not need to
speak of the South" he added.
"She has perhaps acquired the
gift of speaking for herself l
come because | want to speak of
our present and prospective
neightors to the south. Ideemed
it a public duty as well as per-
aonal pleasure to be here to ex-
press for myself and for the
government | represent, the
welcome we all feel to those who
represent the Latin-American
States. The future is going to
be very different for this hemi-
sphere from the past. Those
States lying to the south of us
which have always been neigh
bors will now be drawn closes
to us by innumerable ties, and |
hope, chief of all by the tie of a
common understanding of each
other.
Interest does not tie nations
together, it sometimes separates
them, but sympathy and under
standing does unite them. And
| believe that by the new route
that is just about to be open
while we physically cut two con-
tinents asunder, we spiritually
unite them. This is a spiritual
union which we seek. l wonder
if you realize. | wonder if you
imaginations have been filled
with the significance of the ties
of commerce.
"These great ties which have
been running along parallels of
latitude will now swine south
ward 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-a
commerce of intelligence, of
thought and'sympathy between
North and South; and the Latin
American states, which, to their
disadvantage have been off the
main lines, will now be on the
main lines. | see that these
gentlemen honoring us with
their presence today will pres
emily find that some part, at any
rate, of the center of gravity Of
the world has shifted. Do you
realize that New York, for eX-
ample, will be nearer the west
ern coast of South America than
she is now to the eastern coast
of South America?
PREDICTS NEW ERA
"Thfre is one popularity
about the history of the Latin
American states, which | am
sure they are keenly aware of.
You hear of concessions to for
eign capitalists in Latin-Ameri-
can. You do not hear of con-
cessions to foreign capitalists in
the United States. They are not
granted concessions. They are
invited to make investments.
The work is ours, though they
are welcome to invest in it. We
do not ask them to supply the
capital and do the work. 1t is an
invitation, not a privilege, and
states that are obliged, because
their territory does not lie with
in the main field of modern
enterprise and action to grant
concessions are in this condition.
THAT foreign interests are
apt to dominate their domestic
affairs. A condition of affairs
always dangerous and apt to be-
come intolerable. What these
states are going to see, there
fore, is an emancipation from
the subordination, which has
been inevitable to foreign enter
prise and an assertion of the
splendid character which, in
spite of these difficulties they
have been able to demonstrate.
The dignity, the courage, the
self possession, the respect OF
the Latin-American state, their
achievement in the face of all
these adverse circumstance,
deserve nothing but the admir-
otinn on1 on,N1o,,a &c A. ,.,o..tl