The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-27
President Tells Delegates to
Pan American Financial Con-
terence Western Nations Are
Example to Europe.
COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS
Effort Now Being Made to
Effect Continental Solidarity
Through Trade and Finance
Need More Ships.

Need More Ships.
Washington. May 25.-President VIII
SON, speaking at the opening Of the
Pan-American financial conference
here today, expressed the hope that
the path to peace. The president was
loudly a%pplauded by the delegates as
he entered the hall of the Americas in
the Pan-American union building,
where the meetings are being held. On
the platform We're m of the cab
met, while the audience included many
high government officials, in addition
to the representatives Of South and
Central American countries.
The president declared that the peo-
pie of the Americas were not trying to
make use of one another, but We're
trying to be of use to one another. He
spoke of the handsome rivalry which
he said was good for nations. The lack
of the physical means Of communica-
ton between the Americas, he said,
stood somewhat in the way of the de-
yelopment of and friend
ship. In advocating more ships in Pan
American trade and the opening of new
routes. h president said that If pri-
vate capital cannot soon establish such
means Of communication, the govern
ment must undertake to do so.
At the conclusion of the presidents
address, he was applauded again. He
remained in the hall while representa-
tives Of the different nations respond
ed to his welcome.
A Mutual Undertaking..
President Wilson spoke as follows:
There can be no sort Of union of
interest If there Is a purpose Of ex-
ploitation on the part of any person
connected with a great conference of
this sort. We are not, therefore,, try
Ing to make use of each other, but we
are trying to be of use to one another.
1T is very surprising to me, 1t is
even a source of modification, that a
conference like this should have so long
been delayed; that it SHOULD never have
occurred: that it should a required
a crisis OF the world to show the Amer
icas how truly they We're neighbors to
one another. If there is any one happy
circumstance, gentlemen, arising out
OF the present distressing circum-
stances of the world, it is that it has
revealed US to one another; it has
shown Us what 1t means to be neigh
bors. And / cannot help harboring the
hope, the very high hope, that by this
commerce of minds with one another,
as well as in goods, we may
snow the world in part the path of
peace.
TT would be a very great thing If the
Americas could add to the distinction
which they already wear this of show
Ing the way to peace, to permanent
peace.
THE way to peace for us, at any
rate, Is manifest. 1t is the kind of
rivalry which does not involve agrees
sion. 1t Is the knowledge that men can
be of the greatest service to one anoth-
er and nations Of the greatest service
to one another. when the jealousy be-
tween them is merely a jealousy Of ex-
cellence, and when the basis of their
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one way in which we wish to take ad-
vantage of you and that is by making
better goods, by doing the things that
we seek to do for each other better, if
we can, than you do them, and so spur
ring you on, if we might, by SO hand
some as jealousy as that to excel US.
Basis For Nations.
81 am SO keenly aware that the basis
of personal friendship is this COM
petition in excellence, that I am perfect
y certain that this is the only basis for
the friendship of nations; this hand
some rivalry, this rivalry in which
there is no dislike, his rivalry in which
there is nothing but the hope Of a com
mon elevation in great enterprises,
which we can undertake in common.
There is one thing that stands in our
way among others-for you are more
conversant with the circumstances thar
I am; the thing / have chiefly in mind
is the physical lack of means Of com
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lack of ships, the lack of established
routes of trade-the lack of those
things which are absolutely necessary
Il we are to have true commercial and
intimate commercial relations with one
another; and am perfectly clear in my
Judgment hat if private capital cannot
soon enter upon the adventure of es-
tablishing these physical means Of COM
m~unication, the government must I'M
dertake to do so. We cannot indefinitely
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the lack of what can easily be supplied,
and if one fundamentally cannot sup
ply 1T, then another must be found
which will supply it. We cannot know
each other unless we see each other;
we cannot deal with each other unless
we communicate with each other. So
as soon as we communicate and upon
q familiar footing of intercourse with
one another. we shall understand one
another and the bonds between the
Americas will be such bonds that no
influence that the world may produce
in the uture will ever break them. If
am selfish for America 1 at least hope
my selfishness is enlightened, the
selfishness that hurts the other party
Is not enlightened selfishness. If l were
going upon a mere ground of selfish
ness l would seek to benefit the other
party and SO tie him to myself; so that
even if you were to suspect me of
selfishnesS | hope you will also suspect
me of intelligence and Of knowing the
only safe way for the establishment of
the things which we covet as well as
the establishment of the things which
we desire and which we would feel
horored, if we could earn and win.
Welcome From the Heart"
81 ave said these things because
they will perhaps enable you to under
stand how far from formal my welcome
to this body is. 1t is a welcome from,
the heart. 1t is a welcome from the
/ head II is a u-a1nnpoa ipSpira1 nv Uhat
1 hope are the highest ambitions for
those who live in these two great con
t%inents. who seek to set an example tc
the world in freedom of institutions
freedom of trade and intelligence OF
mutual service"
The Pan-American financial confer