New Britain herald., 1916-01-07

congress- introduced MT. Wilson as a statesman who had radically chang ed the nature of the relations among the peoples of this continent and has built an American international policy of mutual esteem and co-oper- atlon, at this very moment praised and applauded by the whole contin- ent."
 'I have been told that while thi., congress has been discussing science" said the president, Git has been in spite of itself led into the feeling that behind the science there was some inference with regard to poH- tics and that if the Americans were to be united in thought they must Tn some degree mpathetically be united in action. If nations are polit- ] ically suspicious of one another. all their intercourse is embarrassed. That is the reason, I take it, that vo,,r 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 in- ferences. The object of American statesmanship on the two continents IS to see to 1t that American friend ship is founded on a rock.
 Must Remove Doubt.
 'The Monroe Doctrine was pro- claimed by the United States on her own authority. It always has been maintained and always will be main ta1ned 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. It did not disclose the use which the United States intended to make Of her power on this side of the Atlantic It 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 protec- torate which she apparently was try ing to set up on this side of the water, and l believe you will sustain me in the statement that it has been fears and suspicious on this score which have hitherto prevented the greater intimacy and confidence and trust be- tween the Americans. The states of America have not been certain what the United States would do with her power. That doubt must be re- moved.
 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 hemisphere, an interchange of views charming and hopeful, because based upon an increasingly sure ap- preciation 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. I hope and I believe that this can be accomplished"
 Domestic Peace of America.
 The president then outlined the program as stated above and con- tinued:
 You see what our thought is, gen. tlemen, not only the international peace of America, but the domestic peace of America. These are very practical 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 many generation. For they are based, in the first place, so far as the stronger states are concerned upon the handsome principle of self-re- straint and respect for the rights of everybody. They are based upon the principles of absolute political eaua- ity among the states, equality of right, not equality of indulgence.