The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-01-11
President Emphasizes
Pan-An1ericar1 Policies
Addressing Scientific Congress- Wilson Outlines United
States Attitude One of Striving for Peace and
Unity Among Republics of Western Hemisphere.

nothing stirs passion like political dis
! turbance, and passion is the enemy OF
truth
These things were realized with
! peculiar vividness and said with un-
usual e!oquence in a recent confer
erce held in this city for the purpose
of considering the financial relations
between tie two continents of Ameri-
ca. A financial congsess nat
uraIIy led to all the inferences of poll
tics. For politics l conceive to be
nothing more than the science of the
ordered progress Of society along the
lines of greatest usefulness and con-
enience to itself
"The conference to which l have re-
ferred marked the consciousness of
tae two Americas that economically
they are very dependent upon ane an
I other, that they have great deal that
it is very desirable they should ex-
change and share with one another,
that they have kept unnaturally and
unfortunately separated and apart
when they should manifest an obvious
community of interest; and the OBJ
iect of that conference was to ascer-
tain the practical means by which the
commercial and political intercourse
of the two continents could be quick
ened and facilitated. And where
events move, statesmen, if they be not
Indifferent, be not asleep, must think
and act. x
The Real blSis.
"But these gentlemen have not con-
ferred without realizing that back OF
all the material community of inter
est of which l have spoken there lies
and must lie a community of political
interest. I have been told very in
teresting fact-I hope it IS true-that
While this congress has been discuss
ing science it has been in spite of it
self 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 sympatheti-
cally 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 material interest there
is a community of political interest.
81 hope I can make clear to you in
what sense l use those words. 1 do
not mean mere partne: ship in the
things tnat are eXpedient. mean what
was trying to indicate few moments
ago, that you can not separate politics
from these things, that you can not
have real intercourse of any kind
amidst political jealousies, which is
only another way of saying you can
not commune unless you are friends,
and that friendship is based upon your
political relations with each o5her, per-
maps more than upon any other kind
of relationship between nations.
''If nations are politically suspicious
of one another al their intercourse is
embarrassed The object Of American
craftsmanship on the two continents is
to see to it that american friendship
IS founded on rock.
"The Monroe doctrine was pro-
claimed by the United States on her
own authority. 1t 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 system to this side Of the At
'antic. 1t did not disclose the use
which the United States intended to
make of her power on this side of
the Atlantic. 1t was hand held up
IN warning, but there was no promise
in it of what Amesica was going to
do with the implied and partial pro-
tectorate 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 presented the
trust between the Americas. The States
of America have not been certain what
the United States would do with her
power. This doubt must be removed.
"And latterly there has been very
frank interchange Of views between
the authorities in Washington and
those who represented the other
states of this hemisphere, an inter
change of views charming and hope
full, because based upon an increasing