El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-07
WILSON REVEALS
TREATY TERMS
Declares in Speech America
Plans Permanent Peace
on the Continent.

Washington. D. c.. Jan Address
gress Thursday night, president VIII
son defined the terms of the treaty
; which the United States proposes to
form with the nations Of Latin-Ameri-
Ca The proposal has been handed by
secretary of state Lansing to the Dip
lcmatic representatives OF the other
American republics
The program as outlined by the pres
nations shall:
Unite in guaranteeing to each other
absolute political independence and
4 territorial integrity.
Agree to settle all pending boun-
dairy disputes as soon as possible BY
amicable process.
Agree to handle all disputes aris-
ing among them by patient, impartial
INVESTIGATION, and to settle them by
arbitration.
Agree that no revolutionary expedf-
ton shall be outfitted against or sup
plies for revolutionists shipped to
These are very practical sugges-
tons, said the president, I for my
part believe that they are going TO
lead the way to something that Amer
lea has prayed for for many a genera
ton"
VIII Maintain Monroe Doctrine.
He said the Monroe doctrine has been
and always would be maintained by the
United States on its own authority but
that the doctrine did not disclose what
attitude the United States would as
sumo toward other nations OF the hem
1sphere, and consequently, the other
nations had been distrustful of it
Enthusiastic applause from the del
egates greeted the presidents remarks.
After expressing regret at his inabil-
lty to be present TO greet the congress
at its opening session, the president
said in part:
"The drawing together of the Ameri-
cas-. ladies and gentlemen, has long
been dreamed of and desirable It is
a matter Of peculiar qualification,
therefore, to see the Americans drawn
together and not drawing together
upon an insuostantial foundation OF
mere sentiment.
But. ladies and gentlemen. our
thought cannot pause at the artificial
boundaries Of the fields Of science and
Of commerce. All boundaries that di-
vide life into sections and interests
are artificial because life is all OF a
piece None who reflects upon the
progress of science or the spread OF
the arts of peace or the extension and
perfection of any Of the practical arts
of life can fail to see that there is
only one atmosphere that these things
can breathe and that is an atmosphere
of orderly political life among nations
Financial Independence.
These things were realized with
peculiar viyidness and said with IN
held in this city for the purpose OF
the financial relations be
tween the two continents Of America
The conference TO which have re
ferred marked the consciousness OF the
two Americas that economically they
are very dependent upon one anoIner.
appreciates Mutual Confidence.
For my own part / congratulate
myself upon living in a time when
these things, always susceptible Of in
tellectual demonstrations, have begun
TO be very widely and universally ap-
preciated and when the statesmen OF
the two American continents have more
and more come into candid, trustIul-
mutual conference, comparing views
OF helping one another and Of setting /
forward every handsome enterprise on
this side of the Atlantic
i have been told a very interesting /
fact hape it is true-that while this /
congress has been discussing science,
it has been in spite of itself. led into /
the feeling that behind science there |
was some inference with regard 10
politics and that if the Americans are
to be united in thought. they must /
in some degree sympathetically De |
united in action.
Must Remove Doubts.
THE Monroe doctrine was proclaimed 1
by the United States upon her own I
1t always has been main /
tanned and always viii be maintained /
upon her own responsibility But the !
Monroe dostrine dema nded merely that J
European governments should not at ]
tempt TO extend their political sys- :
tens to this side of the Atlantic 1t
was a hand held up in warning, but
there was no promise in IL what I
America was going to do with the i'm
piled and partial protectorate which O.
she apparently was trying to set up on .
this side of the water and I believe I
you will sustain me in the statement !
that il has been fears and suspicious !
On this score which have hitherto pre-
rented the greater intimacy and conf
1ence and trust between the Americas
The states Of America have not been
certain what the United States would b
10 with her power. That doubt must
De removed.
The Recent Conferences.
And latterly there has been a very
rank interchange OF views between the
authorities in Washington and those
rho represented the other states or
his hemisphere. These gentlemen have
ieen that II America is TO come into
Ter own. into her legitimate own, in a
world Of peace and order, she must es-
hat no one will hereafter doubt them
What Is to BE Accomplished.
These conferences have enabled me
o foresee how it will be accomplished
[ will be accomplished in the first
lace by the states OF America uniting
utely political independence and ter
ltorial integrity. In the second place,
nd as a necessary corollary to that,
the agreement TO settle
II pending boundary disputes as soon
s possible. and by amicable process;
themselves, should they unhappily
rise, will be handled by patient, i'm
lartial investigation and settled by ar