The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-07

of one another, all their intercourse is embarrassed That is the reason I take it, if it be true as I hope it is, 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 drawn back to the political inference. The ob. ject of American statesmanship on the two continents is to see to it that Ameri. can friendship is founded on a rock
 "The Monroe doctrine was proclaimed
 by the United States on her own au- thority It always has been maintained and always will be maintained upon her own responsibility. But the Monroe doc Urine demanded merely that European n governments should not attempt to extend their political system to this side of the Atlantic. It did not disclose the use which the United States intended to make of her power on this side of the Atlantic. It was 9 hand held up in warning but there was no promise in it of what America was going to do with the im- piled and partial protectorate which she apparently was trying to set up on this side of the water, and I believe you will sustain me in the statement that it has been fears and suspicious on this score Which have hitherto prevented the great CT intimacy and confidence and trust be- tween the Americas. The states of Amer ica have not 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 who represented the other states of this hemi- sphere, an interchange of views charming and hopeful, because based upon an in- creasingly sure appreciation of the spirit in which they were undertaken. These gentlemen have seen that if America is to come into her own, into her legitimate own, in a world of peace and order, she must establish the foundations of amity so that no one will hereafter doubt them.
 CAN BE ACCOMPANIED
 "I hope and I believe tkat this can be accomplished. These conferences have enabled me to foresee how it will be ac- complished It will be accomplished in the first place by the States of America uniting in guaranteeing to each other ab- soute political independence and terri torial integrity. In the second place, and as a necessary corollary to that, guar anteeing the agreement to settle all pend- ing boundary disputes among themselves, should they unhappily arise, will be ham, dled by patient, impartial investigation and settled by arbitration; and the agree ment necessary to the peace of the Amer lcaS that no state or either continent will permit revolutionary expeditions against another state to be fitted out on it's territory, and that they will prohibit the eXportation of munitions of war for the purpose of supplying revolutionists against neighboring governments.
 You see what our thought is, gentle men, not only the international peace of America, butsthe domestic peace of Amer ica. If American states are constantly in ferment, if any of them are constantly in ferment, there will be standing threat to their relations with one an- other It is just as much to our interest to assist each other to the orderly pro- cesses within our own borders as it is to orderly processes in our controversies with one another These are very prac- tical suggestions which have sprung up in the minds of thoughtful men, and I, for my part, believe that they are going to lead the way to something that America has prayed for for many generations For they are based, in the first place, so far as the strong states are concerned, upon the handsome principle of self-re- straint and respect for the rights of everyb ody. They are based upon the principles of absolute political equality among the states, equality of right, not equality of indulgence They are based, in short. upon the solid, eternal founda- tions of justice and humanity.
 "No man can turn away from these things without turning away from the hope of the world These are things, ladies and gentlemen, for which the world has hoped and waited with prayerful heart God grant that it nay be granted to America to lift this light on high for tho il1IIDoina tjoD Of tha world ''