Arizona republican., 1919-06-03
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Gillett Startles Conference of Western Republics = Urges the Delegates to Smooth Way to Better Understanding


 WASHINGTON, June, With 21 American republics officially repre- scented and with nearly 800 delegates present, the second Pan American commercial conference was opened to- day at the Pan- American Union. The president of the United States, the presidents of Chile, Ecuador, Guate- mala, Bolivia and Uruguay, the provi- sional president of Venezuela and the i secretary of foreign affairs of Sal 1 vador sent cablegrams of greeting to ! the conference. Assistant Secretary Of State Phillips, who is acting secretary | of state in the absence of Acting Sec retary Polk, Vice President Marshall and Speaker Gillette of the house of representatives. the Chilean ambas sador and the Bolivian ministers, deans of their respective ranks among the Latin American diplomats in Wash iugton, and the President of the United States chamber of commerce were the principal speakers at the inaugural session of the congress.
 President Wilson's greetings read as follows:
 Tt is with genuine regret that find
 
 and greet you in person. I am sure that the members of the government who are in Washington will make you feel abundantly welcome, but I should | have wished to express that welcome in person. We attach the highest im- portance to this conference. Our hearts are set upon perfect understanding between the Americans and the devel- opment of relations which will be mu- tually beneficial not only, but will contribute to the sort of relations which will promote peace and good will as well as prosperity. Please accept my most cordial good wishes for the success of the conference
 Mexico An impeachment 4 Speaker Gillett, in an address that both startled the conference and was greeted by applause, said, the present condition of Mexico was today the greatest impeachment to full fellowship and international trade on this hems- i. phere.'
 The Chilean ambassador and the Bo- ' livian minister took as the keynote oi
 their speeches the necessity of eonfi- dnce and mutual understanding and
 trusting the countries of the Americas Speaker Gillett of the house of repre- | H.
 The people make the law and the people must obey the law until the
 people in q legal manner countermand 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 slightest feeling
 of envy or for hostilitysto any of oui
 brethren on this continent. For one
 there is not Q foot of land on this
 hemisphere that l covet or would take
 for the United States l think it would
 be well for us to look on both sides o1
 the shield and 1 hope you will and il
 has seemed to me that it would not be wise if an assembly of this kind should . meet and not word be said publicly of what l am sure we all have in mind as the greatest impeachment today tC
 full fellowship and international trade
 on this hemisphere and that is, the
 present condition of Mexico' Mexico Worst Victim
 T think we all ought to feel" MT 5 Gillett added, that the worst suffere . of present conditions there is Mexic, l herself, and if the other representative. r of this hemisphere can only unite il some way 10 smooth out the trouble, 1 conditions there. to. make us feel tha r our whole fellowship of nations is. no 2 a reproach, that our whole commercial
 intercourse is not going to be bocke, Q by this one great country which lie ;. right in the middle of our hemisphere : with unbounded resources, then oul, l are you doing the greatest good tha e can be done for trade in the Unite,
 States, and the greatest beneficiary o h your work would be Mexico herself" y Vice President Marshall referred t . the Monroe doctrine as the one grea r American doctrine of the American re 8 publics brought to the fore by tn . European war. He asserted that un fl less a league of nations becomes .. re
 aiity, there has still been sufficien
 discussion of the Monroe doctrine { f clarify the position ofthe United State n in the mind of every Latin American : "The United States is a brother. : MT. Marshall said, not a big brother Il but a brother who wishes you well i e the administration of your own af
 fairs.n