The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-17
BARRETT UPHOLDS
POLICY OF WILSON
TOWARD MEXICO
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that 1t was tho home Of the sIamese
twins.
| Your knowledge Of Slam is astound-
ing" replied the President. and APP
pointed him minister. lie has been
minister since to nearly all OF tho
Latin American countries. and, he said
was elected to his position as director
general of tho exposition by the Presi-
dents of twenty -one republics lie said
that the Panama Canal would open up
territory OF 1900. 600 square miles.
with population OF 10000. 900 and
trade of s2,5oo.OoO.oOO. which has in
creased $1,000. 100000 in ten years. OF
this he said that $500. 600 was in
trade with the United States.
Inspiration From America.
And all these countries in Latin
America had, he said, earned their lib
erty through the inspiration they re-
ceived from George Washington. and all
their Constitutions were modelled after
that of the United States. Tie took all
the South American countries by turn.
exhibiting them, as ii were. in Il fanci-
full picture he drew, showing their re-
sources undrcamed of by the average
American. For example, he said that
the Lus!tania could travel ZOO miles
up the Amazon. or as far as from New
orleans 10 Montana, and that the ANA
zen has 10000 miles OF navigable tribu-
tarios. He went from the canal TO tho
Magellan Straits. finding in Argentina
the largest commerce per capita in the
world. with 100000 white population
III Montevideo there is n $4,000. 600
opera house and that city has the best
and largest newspaper plant in the
world lie took his audience down into
Paraguay, and then into Chile the
ankeciand of South America and to
its city o; Santiago, the Paris OF the
Western World. Chile, he said. is larger
than FraLce. Germany and Great Brit
ain combined. and is a country that has
developed at a pace equal TO that Of
this country.
Peru. he said. had n university of
1000 students 200 years before the
University of Virginia was thought Of.
and had lesser schools before John
Harvard was born. And So through
Ecuador, Costa Rica, a Central Amer
lean country which never had "a revolu-
ton, and San Salvador. he arrived at
Mexico
Says Intervention Is Wrong.
Let us be generous and thoughtful
of Mexico he asked we had five
long years OF civil war. and ten or
twelve terrible years of reconstruct
ton. The London Times once said that
IL might be necessary for Europe TO
intervene in those days and we were
up IN arms against the idea. We want
cd 10 settle our troubles ourselves
SO il is with Mexico. For one Ameri-
can who suffers 10000 AIeXicans suffer
For one American dollar that is lost
10000 MeXtcan dollars are lost. WHY
Intervene when you would not tole-
rate intervention yourselves? Give
our moral support TO President Wilson
In his effort 10 prevent Intervention.
II we cross the Rio Grandc there viii
be more lives lost than there will be
Americans in Mexico In hundred
Years 1t will cost US 100000 a day
FOR ten or twelve years. and we Will
have q pension list 100 years after our
grandchildren are dead
Mr.. Barrett said that the Panama
Canal would open UP trade with the
Gulf, Atlantic and pacifc coasts and
with the Asiatic coast and with Aus
tralasia. 1t would open up a $1,000. 600.
COO trade with 1000. 600, 600 people
But" he said. the Panama Canal
won't be a talisman This enormous
trade won't start at once. 1t Will need
time. and we must get ready now. He
pointed, out that Richmond and Vir-
GINA would proft directly from the
also be developed By the opening OF
the canal He declared that the United
States by digg!ng the canal. had done
years than all the rest OF the world IN
all time.
What Science Has Done.
In masterful way he depicted the
terrible conditions which prevailed In
the Panama Zone when the work be-
gan. 1T was jungle jungle every
where" lie said. There was no sani-
tation. nothing but yellow fever.
held funeral services over seven in one
day. II was place OF death and hell.
Now IL is absolutely sanitary" He
paid high tribute to Colonel GoreaS.
who made the zone sanitary, than
whose fight there was never {, greater
one fought Neither did he forget the
wonderful engineering feat of Colonel
Cocktails.
In the end he advocated three things
AS essential TO develop South American
trade in the interests of Richmond and
Virginia. He urged that a large dele
Mobile OF the Southern Commercial
Congress that another delegation be
sent TO Panama TO swell the national
pride IN the great waterway. and that
delegate be sent as part of the com
mission which is to tour the South
American countries.
You've got to do It," he said. 'if
You want to bring home the fruits of
a national success"
In tho afternoon DR.. Owens delivered
an address to the students of the Mas
scy Business College. taking as his
topic The Opportunities OF Young
People in the South"
STORM SWEEPS FRANCE