Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-16
D0N'y CRI1IC,ISE
 lAriN-!AnfRICANS. SAYS tiR, BARNETT
Must Trust That Each Gov ernment is Acting Hon
 estly in World War.


 named as official representatives of numerous states arrived in the metro polls today to attend the ninth annual convention of the Southern Commer- clal congress. For nearly year pre- parations have been going forward with view to making the present meeting Of the congress the largest and most important since it's organiza- ton.
 The sessions will be devoted not only to consideration of. questions related to agriculture and education, indus tries and commerce, but also consider atlon of problems of the organization and mobilization of the resources of the country for national defence.
 In connection with the sessions a great banquet was given tonight at the Waldorf f-Astoria in honor of the diplomatic representatives of the diff ferent countries allied with the United States in the war. Ambassador Jusserand spoke for the allied diplo- matists, and among the other speak CTS were William H. Taft, former president of the United States.
 Monroe Is Safe.
 John Barrett, director geenral of the PanAmerican Union, the inter- nationl bureau of the American re- publics, and former United States minister to Argentine, Colombia and Panama, responded to the toast "Pan- America and Pan-Americanism.
 In the course of his address, he said:
 "When the war is concluded, we will realize that it has done more than any other international influence since the declaration of the Monroe Doctrine in 1923 to develop ideal and permanent an-American solidarity; that it has accomplished more than all the diplo- matic notes of centurv to make the Monroe Doctorine an unquestioned principle in the relationship of ma tions.
 After the war the Monroe Doctrine must and will become great Pan American doctrine. Then it will be long to, and be espoused by. every other American government from Canada, Cuba and Mexico south to Argentine, Uruguay and Chile, as much as by the United States. Then, being Pan American and supported by every American government, it will be for ever accepted and respected by the rest of the world-and, in it's essence, become a world doctrine standing for the integrity, independence and self government of every nation, great and small.
 No Criticism.
 "There should be no hasty criticism of Argentina, of Chile. of Venezuela, of Colombia, of Ecuador, or of any other Latin American government which may have not yet taken de- cisive position in the present conflict We must trust that each government is acting honestly and refuse to admit that influence and propaganda are holding these governments back i'll their final decision, just as we must delcine to admit that such influence and propaganda kept the government of the United States for nearly three years, in the face of unspeakable lrrl- tation, from taking the final step.
 "On the other hand. let not any part of Pan- America blind itself and refuse to read the handwriting on the wall, which tells us that there is sure ly even if slowly, rising, an overpow- ering flood tide of public sympathy with the purposes. ideals and inspira- tions of the United States in this ter rife fight of immortal right against mortal evil in the relations of nations. This flood, if the war continues an- other wear, must inevitably sweep over all Latin America from the Rio Grande to the Straits of Magellan, making even benevolent neutrality inn nossihle."