Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-12-27

point of the relations of our govern
ments with those beyond the seas, it
( is in entire harmony with the Nom
roe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine
is a national policy of the United
! State: n-Americanism is an inter-
national policy of the Americas. The
motives are 10 an extent different;
! the ends sought are the same. Both
can exist without impairing the force
of either. And both do exist, and, |
! trust, will ever exist in all their vigor.
/ But Pan-Americanism extends be-
yond the sphere of politics and finds
| its application in the varied fields OF
/ human enterprise. Bearing in mind
| that the essential idea manifests itself
in cooperation, it becomes necessary
for effective cooperation that we
should know each other better than
we do now. We must not only be
neighbors. but friends; not only
| friends. but intimates. We must
understand one another We must
comprehend our several needs. We
must study the phases of material
and intellectual development which
enter into the varied problems of ma
i tional progress. We should. there
fore, when opportunity offers, come
/ together and familiarize ourselves
with each others processes ofthought
/ in dealing with legal, economic and
! educational questions.
Commerce and industry, science
and art, public and private law, gov
ernment and education, all those
great friends which invite the intel
| lectual thought of man, fall within
the province of the deliberations OF
| this Congress. In the exchange OF
ideas and comparison of experiences
we will come to know one another
and to carry to the nations which we
represent a better and truer knowl-
edge of our neighbors than we have
! had in the past. / believe that from
that wider knowledge a mutual
esteem and trust will spring which
will unite these republics more closely
politically, commercially and intel
lectually, and will give to the Pan.
American spirit an impulse and power
which it has never known before.
Need for Cooperation.
"The present epoch is one which
must bring home to every thinking
American the wonderful benefits to
be gained by trusting our neighbors
and by being trusted by them, by CO.
operation and helpfulness, by digni-
| fled regard for the rights of all, and
/ by living our national lives in har-
mony and good will.
Across the thousands of miles of
| the Atlantic we see Europe convulsed
| with the most terrible conflict which
| this world has ever Witnessed; we see
the manhood of these great nations
shattered, their homes ruined, their
productive energies devoted to the
one purpose of destroying their fell
low men. When we contemplate the
untold misery which these once happy
| people are enduring and the heritage
| which they are transmitting to sue
| ceeding generations, we can not but
| contrast a continent at war and a
continent at peace. The spectacle
teaches a lesson we cannot ignore.
,"If we seek the dominant ideas in
world politics since we became indie
| pendent nations we will find that we
won our liberties when individualisin
absorbed mems thoughts and inspired
| their deeds. This idea was gradually
supplanted by that of nationalism,
which found expression in the ambi-
| tions of conquest and the greed for
| territory, so manifest in the nine
teenth century. Following the inn
pulse of nationalism the idea Of in
! ternationalism began to develop. 1t
| appeared to be an increasing influ-
ence throughout the civilized world,
when the present war of empires, that
| great manifestation of nationalism.
stayed its progress in Europe and
brought Encouragement to those who
| had hoped that the new idea would
usher in an era of universal peace
and justice.
Idea of Internationalism.
while we are not actual partici-
pants IN the momentous struggle
which is shattering the ideals toward
which civilization was moving and is
breaking down those principles on
which internationalism is founded, we
stand as anxious spectators of this
| most terrible example of nationalism
Let us hope that it is the final out
burst of the cardinal evils of that
1 idaa which has for nearly q century
spread its baleful influence over the
world.
-Amerieanism is an expression
of the idea Of internationalism
America has become the guardian ol
that idea. which will in the end rule