The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-27

nest hope that -Pan-America' will be
the keynote which will influence your
relations with one another and inspire
your thoughts and words.
Nearly a century has passed since
President Monroe proclaimed to the
world his famous doctrine as the ma
tional policy of the United States. 1t
was founded on the principle that the
safety of this republic would be i'm
perilled by the extension of sovereign
rights by a European power over ter
ritory in this hemisphere. Conceived
in a suspicion of monarchial institu-
lions and in a full sympathy with the
republican idea, it was uttered at a
time when our neighbors to the south
had won their independence and were
gradually adapting themselves to the
exercise of their newly acquired rights.
To those struggling nations the doc
trine became a shield against the great
European powers. which in the spirit
of the age coveted political control
over the rich regions which the new
born states had made their own.
During that period the younger re-
publics of America, giving expression
to the virile spirit of independence and
liberal institutions, developed rapidly
and set their feet firmly on the path
of national progress which has led
them to that plane of intellectual and
material prosperity which they today
enjoy
within recent years the govern
ment of the u. S. has found no &C.
casion, with the exception of the Vene-
zuela boundary incident, to remind
Europe that the Monroe doctrine con-
tinueS unaltered a national policy of
this republic. The republics of Amer
lea are no longer children in the great
family of nations. They have attained
maturity. With enterprise and patri-
several destinies.
Our brotherhood.
When we attempt to analyze Pan
Americanism we find that the essen
tial qualities of those of the family
sympathy, helpfulness and a sincere
desire to see another grow in pros
perity, absence of covetousness of an
others possessions, absence of jeal-
Ousy of anotherS prominence, and,
above all, absence of that spirit of in
trigue which menaces the domestic
peace of neighbCr. Such are the
qualities of, the family tie among in
dividuals, and such should be, and I
believe are, the qualities which COM
pose the tie which unites the Amer
lean family of nations
IF 1 have correctly interpreted
Pan-Americanism from the standpoint
of the relations of our governments
with those beyond the seas, it is in
entire harmony with the Monroe doc
trine. The Monroe doctrine is ma
tional policy of the United States:
Par-Americanism is an international
policy of the Americas. The motives
are to an extent different; the ends
sought are the same. Both can exist
without imDairing the force of either.
And both do exist and, 1 trust, will
ever exist in all their vigCr.
But Pan-America nism extends be-
yord the sphere of politics and finds
it's application in the varied fields OF
human enterprise. Bearing in mind
that the essential idea manifests it, \
self in cooperation, it becomes nee
essary 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 intimatcs. We must I'M
derstand ore another We must COM
prehend our several needs. We must
study the phases of materials and in
telIectual development which enter in
to the varied problems of national |
progress. We should, therefore,
when opportunity offers, come to-
gether and far1iliarize ourselves with
each others processes of thought in
dealing with legal, economic, and edu-
cational questions.
Commerce and industry, science
and art, public and private law, gov
eminent and education, all those
great fields 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 q better and truer knowl-
edge, a mutual esteem and trust will
spring which will unite these rePub-
lies more closely politically, conner
cially, and intellectually, and will give
to the Pan-AmericaEism spirit an i'm
pulse and power which it has never
known before.
Trust Our Neighbors.
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.
on nd hal Al
fled regard for the rights of all, and |
by living cur 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 ma
tions shattered, their homes ruined, |
the one purpose of destroying their |
fellowmen. When we contemplate the |
untold misery which these once happy |
people are enduring ard the heritage |
which they are transmitting to sue |
ceeding generations, we can not but |
contrast continent at war and a con- |
tinent at peace The spectacle |
teaches a lesson we can not ignore
While we are not actual particf- |
pants in the momentoUs struggle |
which is Shatterirg the ideals towards |
which civilization was moving, and is |
breaking down these principles on |
which inIernadonalism is founded, wo |
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 idea
which has for nearly a century
spread its baloful influence over the |
world.
Our Opportunities.
THE path of opportunity lies plain
before us Americans The govern
ment and people of every republic
should strive to inspire in others con- /
fidence and cooperation by exhibit
ing integrity of purpose and equity
in action. Let US as members of this
congress, therefore, meet together on /
the plane of common interests and to-
gether seek the common good. What
ever IS of common interest, whatever
makes for the common good, what
oyer demands united nffnr-t /