The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-06-02
SPEAKS TO PAN=AMERICANS;
WILSON TENDERS WELCOME
President Addresses Body of Dele
gates Gathered in Washington
From South America.


The program for the opening ses-
sion of the Pan-American finance con-
ference which opened at Washington
Monday was given over to speeches of
welcome by President Wilsond Secre-
tary Bryan and responses from the
delegations of each invited country.
Next came a reception to the dele
gates and their families in the east
room of the White House, to which
all the visitors had been invited by
the president.
President Wilson spoke as follows:
There can be no art of union Of
interest if there is purpose of eX-
ploitation on the part of any person
connected with 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 an
other.
''It is very surprising to me. it is
even a source of modification. that a
conference like this should have been
so long delayed, that it should never
have occurred before, that it should
have required a crisis of the world to
show the Americans how truly they
were nsighbors to one another. If
there is any one happy condition,
gentlemen, arising out OF the present
distressing circumstances of the
world, it is that it has revealed us to
one another; it has shown US what it
means to be neighbors. And I can
not help harboring the hope, the very
high hope that by this commerce of
minds with one another, as we'll as
commerce in goods, We may show the
world in part the path to peace.
"It would be a very great thing if
the Americans could add to the dis
tinction which they already. wear,
this of showing 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 in
volve aggression. 1t is the knowledge
that men can be of the greatest SER
| vice to one another and nations OF
the greatest service to one another
when the jealousy between them is
| merely Jealousy of eXcellnce, and
when the basis of their intercourse is
| friendship There is only one way in
which we wish to take advantage OF
you, and that is by making better
goods. by doing the things that we
seek for each other better, II we can,
than you do them, and so spurrine
you on, if we might, by so handsome
a jealousy as that to excel US.
Il am so keenly aware that the
basis Of personal friendship is this
competition in excellence, that l am
perfectly certain that this is the only
basis for the friendship of nations
this handsome rivalry, this rivalry ot
which there is no dislike, this rivalry
in which there is noting but tn;
hope of a common elevation in great
enterprises which We can undertake
in common.
There is one thing that stands il
our way among others, for you are
more conversant with the circum
stances than I am; the thing I have
chiefly in mind is the physical lack
of means of communication, the lacl
of vehicles, the lack of ships, the lacb
of established routes of trade-the
lack of those things which are abso
lutely necessary if we are to have
true commercial and intimate com
mercial relations with one another;
and I am perfectly clear in my judg
ment that it private capital can mo-
soon enter upon the adventure Of es
| tablishing these physical means O.
communication the government mus
undertake to do. We can not indef
initely stand apart and need eacf
other for the lack of what can easily
be supplied, and if one instrumental
ity can not supply it. then another
must be found which will supply it
We can not know each other unles:
we see each other; we can not dea
with each other; we can not dea
with each other unless we communi
cate with each other. So soon as We
communicate and are upon fapil
| lar footing of intercourse with one
another, we shall understand one an
other, and the bonds between the
Americas will be such bonds that NJ
influence that the world may pro
duce in the future that the world ma!
produce in the future will ever break
| them.
IF l am selfish for America, a.
least hope that my selfshness is en-
Heightened. The selfshness that hurts
the other party is not enlightened
selfishness. If I were going upon
mere ground of selhshness, woult
seek to benefit the other part and sc
tie him to myself; SO that even i!
you were to suspect me of selfishness
hope you will also suspect me o.
intelligence and of knowing the only
safe way to establish the things We
covert as we'll as the establishment
of the things which we desire ant
which we would feel honored if We
could earn and win.
81 have said these things because
they will perhaps eLable you to IN
derstaud how far from formal my
welcome to this body is. 1t is wei
come from the heart, it is welcome
inspired by what.I hope are the high
est ambitions for those who live in
these two great continents, who seeE
to set an example to the world in
freedom Of institutions, freedom oi
trade, and intelligence of mutual SER
| vice.
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