The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-07

vfous community of interest; and the
object Of that conference was to as
certain the practical means by which
the commercial and, practical inter
course OF two contine nts could be
quickened and facilitated. And where
events move statesmen. if <they be not
indifferent or be not asleep, must
think and act.
Cam Help One Another
S fFor my own part, I congratulate
myself upon living in a time when
these things, always susceptible of
intellectual demonstration, have be-
gun to be very widely and universal
" appreciated. and when the states,
men of the two American Continents
have more and more come into can
did, trustful, mutual conference COM
paring views as to the practical and
friendly way of helping one another
and of setting forward every hand
some enterprise on this side of the
Atlantic.
But these gentlemen have not con-
ferred without realizing that back of
all the material community of interest
of which I have spoken there lies and
must lie a community of political in
terest.
81 have been told a very interesting
act-I hope it is that while
this Congress has been discussing
science, it has been, in spite of itself.
led into 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 must in some degree sympathet-
fcally be united in action.
= what these statesmen who have
been comforting from month to month
in Washington have come to realize
is that back Of the community of ma
terial interests is community of po-
htical interests.
ST hope can make clear to you
in what sense I use those words. I
do not mean a mere partnership in
what I was trying to indicate a few
moments ago, that you cannot sepa-
rate politics from these things. That
you cannot have real intercourse of
any kind amid political jea1ousies,
which is is only another way of say
ing that you cannot commune unless
you are friends, and that friendship
is based upon your political relations
with each other PERHAPS more than
upon any other kind of relationships
between nations.
eff nations are politically suspi-
cious of one another. all their inter
course is embarrassed That is the
reason, I take it, if it be true, as
hope it is, that your thoughts, even
during this congress, though the
questions you are ca1l6u TO CONSIDER
are apparently SO foreign to politics,
have again and again been drawn
back to the political differences. The
object Of American craftsmanship on
Ehe two continents is to see to it that
american friendship is founded on a
rock.
Aids Monroe Doctrine
..s,The Monroe Doctrine was pro-
claimed by the United States on her
own authority It always has been
maintained and always will be main
tanned UPON her own responsibility.
But the Monroe Doctrine demanded
merely that European governments
should not attempt to extend their
political systems 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.
cit was a hand held up in warning,
but there was no promise in it OF
what America was going to do with
the implied and partial protectorate
which she apparently was trying to
set up on this side of the water, and
I believe that it has been fears and
suspicious on this score which have
hitherto prevented the greater init
macy and confidence and trust be-
tween the Americas. The States of
America, have not been certain what
the United States would do with her
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