The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-15

THEIR PRE-EMINENCE IN EDU.
CATION AND THE ARTS-HE is
DECIDEDLY OPPOSED TO ARMED
INTERVENTION IN MEXICO
$500 PEOPLE APPLAUD HIS AID.
DRESS IN THE PRo-cATHEDRAL.
An audience of fully twenty-five hun
dred people rose as one man to greet
the Honorable John Barrett, Director
General of the Pan-American Union,
when he rose to deliver his address on
America and the Sister Americas in
the Pro-Cathedral of st. Mary, Mime
apolis, last Sunday evening. 1t was a
spontaneous testimony of appreciation
for one who has striven to impress
upon the people of America the neces-
sity of maintaining the most amicable
relations between the United States
and her sister Republics to the South.
Mr.. Barrett was introduced by
Mayor Nye, of Minneapolis, who, on
behalf of the people of Minneapolis,
thanked those behind the Pro-Cathe-
dral project for adding to the city's
attractiveness one of the finest struc-
lures of it's kind in the country. He
presented Mr.. Barrett as "a distin-
guished American citizen, so wide in
his fame, and so universal in his activi-
ties, as to have gained the admiration
of al Minnoo nOIic "
On rising to speak Mr. Barrett con-
graduated Minneapolis and the North
west on the approaching completion of
the noble House of God in which they
were assembled and, after compli-
mentary reference to the Most Rev
erend Archbishop Ireland, he plunged
at once into his subject, by saying that
Minneapolis, st. Paul, the State of
Minnesota, and the whole Northwest
are just as much concerned in the de-
ican prestige, influence and commerce
abroad as are the Eastern, Southern
and Western portions of the United
! States.
L IIG uWClJ On JA1C n1G3lA NC6AOS "a OAN -
ization attained by these Republics as
shown by their tremendous develop
ment in every line of commerce and
industry, as well as in the liberal arts
and in education. Their noted univer
sites were centers of culture and re
finement long before similar institu
tions sprang into being in the United
States. He deplored the tendency, SC
prevalent in this country, to look with
feeling akin to contempt on the
South American Republics and theil
achievements and to see in their in
habitants only an inferior people. We
can learn much from them il we will
only take the trouble to study theil
history without preconceived preju
dice. We subjoin the following ex
| tracts:
A New Era About to Open.
81 refer specifically to our sister
American republics-the twenty ambi
tious countries that reach from Mexico
and Cuba south to Argentine and Chile
/ Wv I'LL IAC OpOAAA5 Vi IhO C1AOhAo
canal, we are just now arriving at 8
critical point in our relations witt
them which may determine forever
whether we are to be trusted or dis
trusted by them; whether they are tc
follow, and cooperate with, our lead
ership or that of Europe; whether they
are to shape their institutions anC
their civilization along the lines of this
country or of the old world; and
whether they shall give the largest
share of their foreign commerce to the
United States or to Europe and Asia
'The actual and mighty engineering
achievement which the Panama cana
represents, the building of this gigan
tic waterway of trade between the At
lantic and the Pacific, and the physica
and economic wedding, as it were, oi
the two oceans, are all secondary tC
the Importance of securing and hold
ing the good will of these twenty sis
ter Latin American nations, which are
entering upon a wonderful new era oi
progress and power, with rapidly in
creasing population of 80,000,000, 9
combined area of 100000 square
miles or three times that of the United
States, and an annual foreign trade
which already reaches the immense
total of $2,500,0O0, 0,0O0
Men of Minnesota and the North
west, the question Of the hour for the
United States in the family of nations
| is this: Shall, or shall not, the Pana'
ma canal, which physically separates
North and South America, actually
unite them as an everlasting channel
of mutual interest and sympathy? No
| greater disaster could befall the for.
eign moral standing and commercial
opportunity of the United States than
to make the canal purely selfish in
strument of North American material
and political activity. We must make
our sister republics understand that
we want to help to build up their trade
as well as our own, that we want their
ships as well as those of the United
States to utilize its facilities.
America Inspired Their Efforts.
''The prosperity and the welfare OF
every citizen of this section, every
city, town and hamlet of this North
west, will be affected directly and
favorably, as years pass by, il such a
policy Of the United States IL inaugu-
rated and maintained.