Arizona republican., 1916-01-07
PAN-AMERICAN
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 upon the increasing sense of com radeship and intimate intercourse l which has marked it's sessions from day to day: and it is a very happy circumstance in our view that this, perhaps the most vital and success full of the meetings of this congress, should have occurred in the capital of our own country, because we should wish to regard this as the universal place where ideas worth while are exchanged and shared.
 The drawing together of the Americas. ladies and gentlemen, has long been dreamed of and described. ! It Is a matter of peculiar gratifica ton. therefore to see this gerat thing happen; to see the Americas drawing together and not drawing together upon any insubstantial foundation of mere sentiment.
 After all. even friendship must be based upon a perception of common sympathies, of common interests, of common ideals and of common pur- poses Men canno- be friends unless they intend the same things and the Americas have more and more re aliZed that in all essential particu- lars they intend the same thing with ANSulN AO blVAl AHi'uSlAL anu bllCii life and their activities. To be priv ileged, therefore to see this drawing together friendship and communion based upon these solid foundations affords everyone who looks on with open eyes peculiar satisfaction and joy: and it has seemed to me that the language of science. the language of impersonal thought, the language of those who think. not along the 1 lines of individual interest, but along i what are intended to be the direct l and searching lines of truth itself, 1 was a very fortunate language in l which to express this community of interest and of sympathy.
 But ladies and gentlemen, our i thought cannot pause at the artificial | boundaries of the fields of science and 1 of commerce. All boundaries that di- i vide life into sections and interests are artificial because life is all of piece. | You cannot treat part of it without, l hy implication and indirection. treat 1 ing all of it, and the field of science i is not to be distinguished from the 1 field of life any more than the field l of commerce is to be distinguished from the general field of life. No one who reflects upon the progress of sci l ence or the spread of the arts of peace ] or the extension and perfection of any l of the practical arts of life can fail | to see that there is only one atmos- l phere that these things can breathe and that is an atmosphere of mutual ! confidence and peace and of odd polti- | cal life among the nations. Amidst war and revolution even the voice of science must, for the most part be silent and revolution tears up the very roots of everything that makes life go steadily forward and the light grow from generation to generation. For nothing stirs passion like political dis turbance, and passion is the enemy of truth.
 These things were realized with pc culiar vividness and said with unusual eloquence in a recent conference held in this city for the purpose of consid- ering the financial relations between the two continents of America, be- cause il was perceived that financiers can do nothing without the cO-opera- tion of governments. and that if mer- chants would deal with one another, laws must agree with one another - that you cannot make laws vary with out making them contradict, and that amidst contradictory laws the easy flow of commercial intercourse is inn possible, and that, therefore. a finan- cial congress naturally led to all the infercnces of politics. For politics conceive to be nothing more than the 1 science of the odd progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself
 ''The conferences to which have re-
 ferred marked the consciousness ol
 the two Americas that, economically , they are very dependent upon one an other; that they have a great deal that 1t IS very desirable they should ex.
 change and share with one another, that they have kept unnaturally anC unfortunately separated and apar
 when they had a manifest and obviou. D ! community of interest, and the obiec of that conference was to ascertain tn, y practical means by which the commer o cial and practical intercourse of tn, n two continents could be quickened anc y facilitated
 -i For my own part I congratulat, . myself upon living in time whel
 these things, always susceptible of in
 tellectual demonstrations, have begun
 to be very widely and universally ap preciated and when the statesmen 0
 the two American continents hay
 more and more come into candid
 trustful, mutual conference, compar
 ing views as to the practical an,
 friendly way of helping one anothe
 and of setting forward every handsom
 enterprise on this side of the Atlantic
 But these gentlemen have not con , ferred without realizing that back O
 all the material community of interes
 of which l have spoken there lies an
 must lie a community of political in
 terest. l have been told d very inter
 estinG fact hope it is true-tha
 While this congress has been discuss
 ing sicence, it has been in spite of it self led into the feeling that benin ! the science there was some inferenc with regard to politics, and that if tn Americans were to be united i thought they must in some degree b
 united sympathetically in action Wha these statesmen who have been con
 ferring from month to month in Wash
 inSton have come to realize is tha
 back of the community of material in
 terest there is a community of politi
 cal interest
 T hope I can make clear to you i what sense l use those words I