The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-12-27
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LIBERTY NAMED
AIMS OF ENTIRE
AMERICAN FAMILY
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well tax for its motto that of Dumas
famous musketeeFs, zone FOR all. all
for one.
III / have correctly Interpreted
pan-Americunism from the stand
point OF the relations Of our govern
ments with those beyond the seas 10
SIS in entire harmony with thc Monroe
Doctrine. Tho Monroe Doctrine b. "A
national policy OF the Uaited states
Pan-Americanlsm Is an International
policy OF the Americas. The motives
are to am extent different. tho ends.
sought are the same. Both can cX-
1T without impairiug the force Of
either And both do exist and. ! trust,
viii ever exist in an their yigor.
But Pau-Americanism extends be-
yond The sphere OF politics ald finds
its application In the varied fields Of
hui..au enterprise. Bearing in mind
that the essential idea mnnifests itself
Iu cooperation. 10 becomes necessary
Tor effective cooperation that we
should know each other better than
we do now. We must not only be
n~eighbors. but friends. not only
friends. but intimates. We must un-
derstand one another. We must com
prehend our several Needs. We must
study the phases OF material n il-
tcltcctual development which enter
into the varied problems Of national
progress. We should, therefore. when
opportunity offers, come together
and familiurize ourselves with each
others progress 90 thought IN dealing
with legal. economic. q education
al questions.
Commerce and industry. science
and art. public and private law. gov
crnmCut and education, an those
great uelds which invite the intcllcC-
tuul Thought of man fall within the
province Of the deliberations uf this
. congress. Iu thu exchange of ideas
and comparison Of experiences we
viii come 90 know one anothcy and 60
carry to the nations which we repre-
sent % better and truor knowledge OF
our noighbors han we hav had I'm
the past. / believe that from that
wider knowledge q mutual esteem and
trust win spring which will unite
these republics more closely polite
ally, commercially ana intellectually.
oad viii give O. tho pan-American
spirit an impulse and power which 10
has never Nnown before.
The present epoch is one which
must bring Co every thinking Ameri-
can tho wonderful benefits Co bee
gained 3y trusting our ueighbots aaJ
hy being trusted hy them, by cooper
alton and helpiulncsa, Do "a diguIicd
regard Tor the rights OF all. and by
living our national lives in harmony
ald GOOD viii.
Across the thousands OF miles of
the Atlantic we see Europe c%0nvulscd
with the most terrible conflict which
his world has over witnessed. We see
the manhood Of these prcat 1ntions
ahattorhi. their homes ruined, their
productive energies devoted To the
one purpose OF destroying their fel-
IoWmen. When we contemplate The
untold misery which these once happy
people are enduring and the heritage
which the are transmitting To- suc-
cccding generations. We cda not but
contrast q continent az war aud n
continent al peace. The F|pccthcl"
teaches e lesson we can mot ignore.
"tf we sccX the dominant ideas il
world politics Fi1co Wo became Indo-
I, pendent nations. wc vll ma that Wo
q. won OUR liberties when individuals abb
sorDed mems thoughts and inspired
their deeds This idea was gradually
supplantcd by that of -auuonall-m
which found expression In the amhi-
lions OF conquest and tho greed fol
territory go manifest ln the nineteenth
century. Following the Impulse o.
EationaiIsm the idea OF in%torIational-
ism began To develop II appeared Cd
bee AN increasing influence throughout
tho civilized world when The present
war of empires. that great manifesto
ton of p%ationaiism, stayed its PROS
rcss in Europe and hrought discSur-
agcmont TO those who mad hoped that
4. the new idea would usher Ia au eta of
universal peace and Justice.
while we are not actual partiei-
pants iu the momentoua struggie
which Us sh0ttrring the ideals toward
which civilization wac moving and BE-
breaking dowu those principles ON
which decentralization is founded,
we stald as anxious spectators of this
! mos. terrible example of -natiouHlism.
Let us hope that b. is the uuul out-
burst of the cardinal evils ol the idea
which has for nearly a century spread
its haleful influence over The world
"Pau-Amcricanism Is AN expression
of the idea of iuternatiouaiisu Amer
sea- has become the guardian of that
idea. which viii ln the end rule the
world. pun-Amerirsuism Is tho most
advanced ass wen as the most prac-
ticat form of that ldoa. lt has been
made possible because of our geo.
graphical isolation, of our similar poo
ntical institutions. and OF our come
mon conception o. human rights.
Since the European war began other
factors have strengthened this mat