The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-28


 United States and Mexico. and the mediation of the three great South American powers. Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. the principle Of Pan Amer1canism has become of world rFzde interest Sunday will mark the twenty-sixth birthday of the Pan American Union. the International Onion of American Republics, for .t was on May 24, 1888, that the United Congress passed an act calling G con remtion in Washington of official rep resenfatives of all the republics of the New World James G-x Blame the P1umed Knight of IngersoIIs elo- nu@nt oratory, was the father of mod nrn Ran-Americanlsrn. MT. Elaine Hhe was then Secretary of State, worked out the plans for the Wash nxtnu conference, which was held in 1888, just quarter of century ago
 Some of the most distinguished Btatesmen of the Latin republics as- beuabled in Washington on October 2. 1888, but adjourned to make 8 tour of the United States. The Empire Of Brazu was the only mona1chical gov ernment represented, but, just four fay8 before the congress comm enced 6s formal sessions In Washin gton on November 1eth- Brazil. by bloodless revolution. joined the ranks or Amer lran republics
 The first Pan-American Congress hontinued for five months. and voted kn recommend to the various govern ments Tor adoption, among other meagureEs uniform system of weights and measures a uniform commercial coinage, treaties of recip- rocity, and a general plan of legaliz : Ing documents Other projects cFonstd- cred sncluded great North and South trunk railway government suhsidies for steamship lines; uniform Quarantine regulations, international Copyright and patent protection, and a great Pan-American bank
 Out of this meeting grew the inf1u. hutizl Pan-A American Union. which has for it's purpose the promotion of Friendship between the twenty one American republics. each Of which contributes to the maintenance of the Institution in proportion to popuIa- tf0n- The Union has it's home in a azanknifcent edif1ce in Washington which cost one million dollars. Three Enurtns 1f the cost of the edidcs was naErHyed by Andrew Carnegie and &he various republics contributed to provide the remainder Of the fund. while the land on which the ouild4 Ing stands worth szo0. 900. was Uncle ER1n.s gift to Pan-A m ericanisnl- In his book. ssThe Pan-Amerfcan Un-. fou,1 John Barrett. the Director Gen 5eraL gays of this building. in his ded- 1cztfon to Mir Carnegie zzz =zz.z. z-
 -Ets chaste marble walls. it's s1 sniff- cant ornamentations it's open patio 1n which grows vigorously the peace tree' planted by the hands of Presi- fden< Taft and himself, it's spacious land digntned assembly hall, adapted Ito international conferences, it's broad corridors, carrying the flags tRnd escutcheons of the American na- sfi0nE and it's many busy offices. all emphasize the mobility and useful ;nnss Of his gift and make the st1-71c-
 
 b@wn efforts for the abolition of war A&mnng all nations and to the fnpor 2 tkMnce of the growing movement for Fan-Anerican conity and com frr1ewre-
 The second Pau-American Co1aszress ttzas held in Mexico in 1901. with sev-' ienxoen republics represented, and a. fnuuaber of important treaties were ne-. gotzated- In the same year the Pan fAmertcan Expedition at BunaIo. de- sz4Ensd to fttinEzy illustrate the deveI- opmeht of the Western Hemisph ere, fszve great forward irapulse to Pan Z [Aue<fcanisrn, although nnarred in it's. lcloainE days by the tragic death of. Freaidsnf Mckinley. The later con. Eresseg of the Ran=Annerican Union and of the various scientific and edu-d rntfonaz organizations 1t has inspired. fhg tours, speeches and writings of Root, Knox Roosevelt. Bryan. Ma bmcos Muller and other North and 8XLEE1E8n STGIE&Sxu3ns w&h@T agencies and influences put into operation by the Union, have served t0 en1iE11ten North Americans as to wealth, culture and dmportance of the Lax1n republics to largely d1ssipate fha prejudice of the Latins for the srXanuufz'' and to increase by many millions of dollars the trade between the United States ana it's neigab ors. Greatest fr1umph of all, in the opin-. Ion Of Director Barrett, was tho ten aerlnE of the good officers of the South American powers in an attenpt to settle Mexican difficulties -Tt Bfgnifies,s said MT. Barrett, s.t11e frue Pan-Amertcan spirit of getting together among American notions, and is a long step in advance toward settlement of disputes among Ameri- cam nafiong
 Pan-Amer1canism, in varying forms. Is far older than the Union which represents it's modern express n4on- Monroeism, as set forth i'm President Monroe's famous s-doc- <<knef' of 1923, was -Americ anism of a sort but purely selfish, repre- Bemffng the interests of the United States rather than of the Western Hsu1isphere At that time the Latin Anner1can countries had just thrown off the Spanish yoke, and the Holy AL sfance of Russia, Austria and P1-1s- s1a. -animated by the precepts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, were plot fsrlE conquests in the New World. The uudted States, then in it's infancy, nat urzuY feared the consequences of sucf actfon on the part of the Euro Dean pow and Monroe's message Of Warniug was inspired by the in gfauct of national self-protection, rather than regard for the struggling South American countries
 Tt is highly improbable however. that the Holy Alliance would have nrsandoned the scheme for the ex- tension of the monarchtcaI system in America If England had not set up, 5T inc Canning doctrine, much the same principles as were embodied in rI7r Monroe doctrine The United states was not very fornnidabIe at