Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-03
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REPUBLICS NEE 7
Speaker GiIIett Tells Pan-Am-
erican Commercial Congress
That Mexico is Stumbling
Block to Trade,
ter MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wrss,

Washington, June 2,-Wth twenty
one American republics officially rep
resented and with nearly 500 dele
gates present the second Pan-Ameri-
IAN commercial conference was open
ed today at tlie Pan American Union.
The President of the United States,
the Presidents of Chile Ecuador,
Guatemala. Bolivia and Uruguay, the
provisional president of Venezuela and
the secretary Of foreign affairs of
salvador sent cablegrams of greeting
TO the conference Assistant Secre-
tary of State Phillips, who Is acting
secretary of state In the absence of
Acting Secretary Polk vice pres dent
Marshall and Speaker Gillett OF the
house of representatives, the Chilean
ambassador and the Bolivian minis
ters, deans Of their respective ranks
among the Latin-American diplomats
in Washington, and the president of
the United States chamber of COM
merce We're the principal speakers al,
the inaugural session of the congress.
President Wilson'S greetings read
as follows:
"lt is with genuine regret that 7 find
myself unable to attend the confer
ence and greet you in person. | am
sure that the members of the govern
ment who are in Washington will
make you feel abundantly welcome,
but | should have wished to express
that welcome in person. We attach
the highest mpoetalsfe 10 this con,
ference. Our hearts are ser upon
perfect understanding between the
Americans and the development of re-
lations which will be mutually bene-
nj ttsiJ N,,I 10
to the sort of relations which will pro-
mote peace and good will as well as
prosperity. Pray accept my most cor
dial good wishes for the success Of
the conference"
Speaker Gillett in an address that
both startled the conference and was
greeted by applause, declared that the
present condition of Mexico was
today 'the greatest impediment to full
fellowship and international trade on
this hemisphere"
The Chilean ambassador and the
Bolivian minister took as the keynote
Of their speeches the necessity of con
fidence and mutual understanding and
trust among the countries of the
Americans Speaker Gillett of the
house of representatives expanded
their suggestion,
"1he people make the law and the
people must obey the law until the
people, in a legal manner, change
the law" said Speaker Gillett "We
want the supremacy of the law and
we all fear the despotism OF the mob
just as much as the despotism of the
tyrant America has not the slight
est feeling of envy or hostility to any
of our brethren on this continent, For
one, there is not a foot of land on
thiT hemisphere that I covct or would
take for the United States. think
it would be well for US to look on
both sides of the shield and | hope
you will, and it has seemed to me
that it would not be wise If an as
sembly of this kind should meet and
not word be said publicly of what
| am sure we all have in mind as the
greatest impediment today TO full fell
lowship and international trade on this
hemisphere, and that is, the present
condition of Mexico"
II think we all ought to feel Mr..
Gillett added, that the worst sufferer
of present conditions there is Mexico
herself, and if the other republics of
this hemisphere can only unite in
some way to smooth out the troubled
conditions there, to make us feel that
our whole fellowship of nations is
not a reproach, that our whole COM
mercial intercourse is not going to
be blocked by this one great country
which lies right in the middle of our
hemisphere with unbounded possibili-
ties, then certainly YOU are doing the
greatest good that can be done for
trade in the United States, and the
greatest beneficiary of your work
would be Mexico herself"
Vice President Marshall referred
to the Monroe Doctrine as the one
great American doctrine of the Amari-
can republics brought to the fore
by the European war. He asserted
that regardless of a league of nations
becoming a reality, there has still
been sufficient discussion Of the Mon
roe Doctrine to clarity the position
of the United States in the mind of
every Latin-American.
THE United States is brother"
Mr.. Marshall said, mot big brother,
but brother who wishes you we'll in
the administration of your own af-
fairs"
The vice president said that he was
shocked when he learned that the
people of Brazil had been told recent
ly that the United States was trying
to get the bonds of Brazil held in
Europe in order to make Brazil a ward
of the United States. He denied the
reports as absolutely false in every
detail