Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-12-28

meant we can never know, since fol
four decades it remained unchanged.
During that period the younger
Republics of America, giving express
sion to the virile spirit born of indie
pendence AMI liberal institutions, de,
yeloped rapidly and set their feet firm
ly 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 United States has found
no occasion, with the exception of the
Venezuela boundary incident, to re-
mind Europe that the Monroe Doctrine
continues unaltered a national pol
icy of this Republic. The Republics OF
America are no longer children in the
great family of nations. They have at
tanned maturity. With enterprise and
patriotic fervor they are working out
their several destinies.
During this later time, when the
American nations have come into a
realization of their nationality and are
fully conscious of the responsibility
and privileges which are theirs as SOW
elign and independent States, there
has grown up a feeling that the Re
publics of this hemisphere constitute a
group separate and apart from the 9TH
er nations of the world, a group which
is united by common ideals and COM
mon aspirations. l believe that this
feeling is general throughout North
and South America, and that year by
year it has become a potent influence
over our political and commercial in
tercourse. 1t is the same feeling
which, founded on sympathy and mu-
tual interest, exists among the mem
bers of a family. 1t is the tie which
draws together the twenty-one Repub-
lies and makes of them the American
Family of Nations.
This feeling, vague at first, has be-
come today definite and certain
force. We term it the "Pan-American
spirit" which springs the information
al policy of Pan-Americanism 1t is
that policy which is responsible for
this great gathering of distinguished
men. who represent the best and most
advanced thought of the Americas. II
is policy which this Government has
unhesitatingly adopted and which ii
will do all in its power to foster and
promote.
when we attempt to analyze Pan
Americanism we find that the essential
qualities are those of the family-sym-
pathy. helpfulness and a sincere de-
sire to see another grow in prosperity,
absence of that spirit of intrigue which
possessions, absence of jealousy of an
Cther's prominence, and, above all
absence of that spirit of intrigue which
menaces the domestic peace of neigh
Dor. Such are the qualities of the
family tie among individuals, and such
should be, and l believe are, the quail
tiles which compose the tie which I'M
res the American Family of Nations.
Il speak only for the Government OF
the United States, but in doing so I am
sure that l express sentiments which
will find an echo in every Republic
represented here, when | say that the
might of this country will never be
exercised in spirit of greed to wrest
from neighboring state its territory
or possessions. The ambitions of thi;
eRpublic do not lie in the path of con,
quest but in the paths of peace and jus
tice. Whenever and wherever we car
we will stretch forth a hand to thos,
who need help. If the sovereignty of {
sister Republic is menaced from over
seas, the power of the American Re
publicans will constitute a bulwarl
which will protect the independence
and integrity of their neighbor from
unjust invasion or aggression. Tit
American Family of Nations Nigh
we'll take for its motto that of Dumas