Evening star., 1916-01-07

they are very dependent upon one an
other; that they have a 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 had a manifest and obvious
community of interest; and the object
of that conference was to ascertain the
practical means by which the CONNER
cial and practical intercourse of the
two continents could be quickened and
facilitated. And where events move
statesmen, il they be not Indifferent
or be not asleep, must think and act.
For my own part, l congratulate
myself upon living in a time when
these things, always susceptible of in
tellectual demonstration, have begun
to be very widely and universally ap-
preciated and when the Statesmen of
the two American continents have more
and more come into candid, trustful,
mutual conference, comparing views as
to the practical and friendly way of
helping one another and of setting for
ward every handsome 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 l have spoken there lies and
must lie community of political in
esting fact-I hope 1t 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 inference
with regard to politics, and that if the
Americas were to be united in thought
they must in some degree sympathetic
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.
Must Always Be Friends.
'T hope I can make clear to you in
what sense use those words. do not
mean mere partnership in the things
that are expedient. I mean what 1 was
trying to indicate few moments ago,
that you cannot separate politics from
these things, that you carno. have real
intercourse of any kind a,ajd political
jealousies. which is o1'r a-o'!.cr way
of saying you canno; ,.,'.-,.. .i.e unless
you are friends, AMI "a. /. .endship
is based upon youI io II citations
with each other pc ..4. i!ore than
upon any other kind o. r-lationships
between nations. If nations are po-
their intercourse 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 ques-
parently SO foreign to politics, have
again and again been drawn back to
the political inferences The object of
American statesmanship on the two
continents is to see to 1t that American
friendship is founded on a rock
"The Monroe doctrine was proclaimed
by the United States on her own au-
thority. 1t always has been main
tanned, and always will be maintained
upon her own responsibility. But the
Monroe doctrine demanded merely that
European governments should not at
tempt 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. 1t 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 appar-
entity was trying to set up on this side
of the water, and believe you will sus-
tain 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 between the Americas. The states
of America have not been certain what
the United States would do with her
power. That doubt must be removed.
Frank Interchange Of Views.