Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-07

the feeling that behind the science
| there was some influence with regard
TO politics. and that if the Americas
Were to be united in thought they mutt
in some degree sympathically be unit
| ed in action. II nations are POLITICAL
| ly suspicious of one another all their
lntercours" is embarrassed. That is
the reason, | take il, that your
| thoughts even during this congress,
! though the questions You are called
to consider are apparently so foreign
| to politics, have again and again been
draw back to the political differences
The object Of American Craftsmanship
on the two continents is to see to it
| that American friendship is founded
on 9. rock.
The Monroe Doctrine was proclaim
| 60 by the United States on her own
authority. 1t always has been main
tanned and always will be maintained
upon her own responsibility But the
Monroe Doctrine demanded merely
| that foreign governments should not
attempt to extend their political sys-
TENS TO this side of the Atlantic. 1t
DID not disclose the use which the
United States intended to make Of her
power on this side of the Atlantic. It
was a hand held up in warning. but
there was no promise in it of what
America was going to do with the i'm
Piled and partial protectorate which
she apparently was trying to set up on
this side OF the water. and T believe
you VIII sustain me in the statement
that 1t has been fears and suspicion
on this score which have hitherto pre-
vented the great intimacy and conf,
dence and trust between the Ameri-
been certain what the United States
would do with her power. That doubt
must be removed.
And latterly there has been a very
frank interchange of views between
the authorities in Washington and
those VINO have represented the other
states of this hemisphere, an inter-
change of Views charming and hopeful
because based upon an increasingly
sure appreciation of the spirit in which
they we're undertaken. These gentle
men have seen that if America is to
come into her own, into her legiti-
order she must establish the founda-
tons of amity so that no one will
hereafter doubt them.
i hope, and l believe, this can be
accomplished. These conferences have
enabled me to foresee how it will be
accomplished. 1t will be ACCOMPLISHED
IN the flrst place by the states of
America uniting in guaranteeing to
each other absolute political independ-
ence and territorial integrity In the
second place. and as a necessary cor
ollary to that, guaranteeing the agree
ment to settle all pending boundary
disputes, as soon as possible and by
amicable process: by agreeing that all
disputes among themselves, should
they unhappily arise. will be handled
by patient, impartial investigation and
settled by arbitration and the agree
ment necessary to the peace of the
Americas that no state of either con-
tinent will permit revolutionary ex-
petitions against another state to be
fitted out on its territory and that they
will prohibit the expectation of mu-
nitions of war for the purpose of sup
plying revolutionists against neigh
boring governments.
You see what our thought is. gen.
tlemen. not only the International
rece of America, hut the domestic
ueace of America. If American states