The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-25
OBSTACLES WAR HAS THROWN INTO PATHS
 OF INDUSTRY IN THE
 AMERICAS TAKEN UP
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for the meetinshope will be developed the exact needs of the invited countries
 President Wilson's speech is as fol- lows.
 There can be no sort of internation- als If there is a purpose of exploi- tation on the part of any person con- nected with a great conference of this sort We are not, therefore, trying to make use of each other but we are trying to be of use to one another
 Tt is very surprising to me- 1t is even source of mortieication to ether persons that a conference like this should have been so long delayed; that if should never have occurred before. that it should have required a crisis or the world to show the Americans now truly they were neighbors to one alother. If there is any one happy circumstances, 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 1t means to be neighbors And I cannot help harboring the hope the very high hope, that by this commerce. of nations with one another as well as communion of minds in displaying goods, we may show the world in part the path-t to peace.
 Way to Peace Manifest
 Tt would be very great thing if the Americas could add to the distinc- ton which they already wear this or showlng the way to peace. to perma nent peace. The way to peace for us at any rate is manifest. II is the kind or rivalry which does not involve az sression. It is the knowledge that men can be of the greatest service to one another and nations of the great est service to another when the jeal- cusy between them is merely a ieal- ousy of excellence, 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 to do for each other better If we can, than you do them. and so spurring you on. if we might by so handsome a jealousy as that to excell us.
 "I am so keenly aware that the basis Of personal friendship is this com petition in excellence that I am per fectly certain that this is the onfy basis for the friendship of nations, this handsome rivalry, this rivalry in which there is no dislike; this rivalry in which there is nothing but the hope of a com mon elevation in great enterprises which We can undertake in common
 There is one thing that stands in our way among others--for you are more conversant with the circum stances than l am--the thing I have chiefly in mind is the physical lack of means of communication. the lack of vehicles. the lack of ships, the lack of established routes of trade, the lack of those things which are absolutely nec- ossary if we are to have true com mercial and intimate commercial re- lations with one another, and I am perfectly clear in my judgment that if rrivate capital cannot soon enter upon the adventure of establishing these physical means of communication the government must undertake to do SO We cannot indefinitely stand apart and need each other for the lack of what can easily be supplied and if one in strumentality cannot supply it, then another must be found which will sup- ply it. We cannot know each other 'iniess we see each other; We cannot deal with each other unless we com nunicate with each other. So soon as We communicate and are>upon fa- niliar footing of intercourse with one another we shall understand one an- other and the bonds between the Amer icas will be such bonds that no in- Luence that the world may produce in the future will ever break them.
 Selfishness Enlightened
 If I am selfish for America, I at least hope that my selfishness is en- 'ishtened. The selfishness that hurts the other party Is not enlightened self