Evening star., 1937-12-13
the union. I shall 90 down to the
tomb in peace"
Man of Profound Insight.

the union. I shall 90 down to the
tomb in peace"
Man of Profound Insight.
Bolivar was more than a romantic
man Of action or political adventurer.
He was a thinker, a man Of profound
political and moral insight.
Generally speaking" he declared
in his manifesto to the people Of
New Granada, after escaping from
the reprisals Of Spanish vengeance
in Venezuela, "our citizens are not
capable OF exercising their rights
fully themselves because they lack the
political virtues which characterize
the true republican virtues which are
not acquired under an absolute gov
ernment. The codes of law which our
magistrates consulted were not those
which could teach us the practical
science of government, but those
which were formed by certain we'll
meaning visionaries who, imaging fam
tastic republics, have sought to OBJ
tain political perfection, presupposing
the perfection Of the human race
1t Is necessary that the
government identify itself with the
character OF the circumstances, Of
the times and Of the men It rules. -.
We were not even allowed to be the
political instruments of our own op-
pression!"
He knew better than to believe that
miracles could be performed with
the word liberty-although he per-
formed them. Accordingly he saw and
said that strongly centralized repub-
lican government was necessary for his
people, not a loose federalism-from
which Brazil, for example, has only
yesterday emerged.
Bolivar definitely envisioned the
practical ideal of Hispanic- American
iSm-of great confederation of free
republics for the defense of freedom
and was perhaps, the first to hope
that the rising North American con-
federation would associate itself with
that vision-as, indeed it did in pro-
claiming the Monroe Doctrine, in 1923.
and in accepting an invitation to par
ticipate officially in the first Pam
American Congress in history-called
at President Bolivar's instigation-to
meet in the old city of Panama, on
June %, 1926. The invitations reached
the Government at Washington from
those of Mexico and Central America.
In 1925. They were accepted by
Henry Clay. then Secretary of State,
and the acceptance was defended in
a great state paper addressed to the
Senate by President John Quincy
Adams
Statue of Henry Clay.
That is why statue Of far-sighted
Henry Clay stands today in Caracas.
capital Of Venezuela, and why one Of
the Incompatible Bolivar adorns New
York City's Central Park. But II
you wish to know why and how the
United States Senate stupidity abused
that historic invitation, obstructed
President Adams, and fatally delayed
the fulfillment of Bolivar's century,
spanning dream of continental con-
federation and economic reciprocity
or wish to know the story of that i'm
portant first step towards an Ameri-
can League of Free Nations-turn to
your unexpurgated histories and listen
to the Brave New World broadcast
this evening and every Monday eve
ming over the Columbia network at
1890 E. s. T, The fruit of genuine
pan-Americanism is only now ripen-
ing for the healing of the nations
upon the tree Of history-but it has
been growing and maturing for more
than century. planted by the found
ing fathers in our long-neglected
hemispherical garden! The good
neighbor idea is its greatest friend
and latest guardian.