Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-07-26
Newspaper Representatives
Capture City and Still
Hold it
RALEIGH COMMODORE
Secretary of Navy and John Barrett
Deliver Interesting and Practical
Addresses

Addresses
stapnton. Va, July 26-Secretar!
Daniels last night replied to wha'
+he members of the Virginia Pres:
Association, meeting here in annua
convention, that he has never beer
so constantly reminded OF the gun,
Of being country editor" as ne mac
since he was appointed Secretary Oh
the Navy and then replied to VIVA.
he said was the campaign argument
of "the opposition" that the Amer
can navy was losing in efficiency De.
cause it "was managed by country
editor"
He asserted that these cnarses
were made in spite of the 1acS ''.'''
..tbere are Sc more ships in commas
sion now than on March d. 1913; there
are 5000 more men and a large num-
her Of officers, and an Authorization
bv the Senate of enough additiona'
mon TO fully man every fighting snip
in the navy, so that today 25 battle
ships-more than ever before-are
engaged with the Atlantic fleet IN
maneuvers." =
/. John Barrett, director general OF
tho Pan American Union, Washing
/ +on PC, and former United States
minister to Argentina. Panama, ana m
Colombia, m his speech among other
things said:
There is no greater combined op'
nortunity and responsibility today
before the American Government and
neople than hat represented in Par
America and Pan Americanism. The
European war and the Mexican prop
lem have demonstrated TINS
fact beyond question.
The European war has aohe
more than any other international
Influence since the declaration OF the
Monroe Doctrine in 1923 to develos
Pan American solidarity, Pan Am
erican sympathy ;and, Pan Americar
commerce. On the other hand, tht
Mexican situation has always con
tanned the .possibilities OF disrupt
ing this same solidarity, sympath!
and commerce, but at the same time
having TIE potentiality OF being al
allpowerful factor in cementlng Pal
American friendship and doing ava!
with Pan American distrust.
The European war has today .
great silver lining for the Unitet
States and it's twenty sister Ameri
can: republics: in that it has done
more than all diplomatic negotiations
all speeches and protestations O
friendship through long years to em
phasize in a most practical way :th'
absolute interdependence, in both
material and political ways of TIT
American republics. 1t has als'
shown to them more than any the
oretical argument of century tina
the future commercial, financial ant
economic development of, each one o:
/; the twenty-one American republics
depends. upon the cooperation Of tn
other twenty. 1t has proved for th'
first time beyond question and expert
! mentation the need Of. great Pal
+ American merchant marine, exten
sive Pan American: banking fscih
ties and Pan; American reciprocity il
treaties, laws and intercourse, t
build up Pan American trade.
The Mexican situation. on The othe
hand, has loomed up with its fearfl
as well as its favorable potentialitie
It is no exaggeration, therefore t
state that, if the Mexican problel
of actual war and armed iutervel
n is successfully solved by the avoidant
of actual war and armed inte
ton by the United States, and pc
mament peace and order are estal
lished in Mexico without infringemel
of its sovereignty and with the frien,
ly cooperation of the United Stat'
Government and people, the create
step forward to strengthen the sol
darity established by the Europes
war will be taken. All America.
Pan America from the Unit
States, Mexico and Cuba on the mort
TO Argentina and Chile on the sout