Addresses Before the Southern Commercial CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1914 |
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ADDRESS OF SEÑOR American Continent American countries American Republics aspirations Atlantic attained become benefit Bolivia Brazil Canal is going canal is opened capital Central and South century civilization closer coast of South Colombia Costa Rica endeavor established Europe existence feel Fifth Annual Convention foreign commerce friendship future Government greater Gulf of Mexico honor hope human immense immigration importance increase industries Isthmus John Barrett LADIES AND GENTLEMEN lands Latin America Latin-American countries liberty manufacturers markets material interest ment mercial Congress miles millions MINISTER Monroe doctrine moral nations neighbors occasion ocean October 27 opportunity Pacific Pan American Union Panama Canal peace Peru PEZET pleasure possible present President progress realize Republic of Panama RESOLUTION Resolved Senator Fletcher sentiments separation of Panama sister Republics soil South America Southern Commercial Congress Spanish colonies splendid square miles sympathy territory tion to-day trade relations United vessels wonderful Woodrow Wilson
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6 psl. - Interest has been exacted of them that was not exacted of anybody else, because the risk was said to be greater; and then securities were taken that destroyed the risk — an admirable arrangement for those who were forcing the terms! I rejoice in nothing so much as in the prospect that they will now be emancipated from these conditions, and we ought to be the first to take part in assisting in that emancipation.
7 psl. - It is a very perilous thing to determine the foreign policy of a nation in the terms of material interest. It not only is unfair to those with whom you are dealing, but it is degrading as regards your own actions. Comprehension must be the soil in which shall grow all the fruits of friendship, and there is a reason and a compulsion lying behind all this which is dearer than anything else to the thoughtful men of America. I mean the development of...
6 psl. - States that are obliged, because their territory does not lie within the main field of modern enterprise and action, to grant concessions are in this condition — that foreign interests are apt to dominate their domestic affairs, a condition of affairs always dangerous and apt to become intolerable.
8 psl. - We dare not turn from the principle that morality and not expediency is the thing that must guide us and that we will never condone iniquity because it is most convenient to do so. It seems to me that this is a day of infinite hope, of confidence in a future greater than the past has been, for I am fain to believe that in spite of all the things that we wish to correct the nineteenth century that now lies behind us has brought us a long stage toward the time when, slowly ascending the tedious climb...
7 psl. - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.
8 psl. - This is not America because it is rich. This is not America because it has set up for a great population great opportunities of material prosperity. America is a name which sounds in the ears of men everywhere as a synonym with individual opportunity because a synonym of individual liberty. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets...
8 psl. - It seems to me that this is a day of infinite hope, of confidence in a future greater than the past has been, for I am fain to believe that in spite of all the things that we wish to correct the nineteenth century that now lies behind us has brought us a long stage toward the time when, slowly ascending the tedious climb that leads to the final uplands, we shall get our ultimate view of the duties of mankind.
7 psl. - I know what the response of the thought and heart of America will be to the program I have outlined, because America was created to realize a program like that. This is not America because it is rich. This is not America because it has set up for a great population great opportunities of material prosperity. America is a name which sounds in the ears of men everywhere as' a synonym with individual opportunity because a synonym of individual liberty. I would rather belong to a poor nation that was...
5 psl. - Constantinople had been captured by the Turks and all the routes of trade with the East had been suddenly closed. If there was not a way across the Atlantic to open those routes again, they were closed forever, and Columbus set out not to discover America, for he did not know that it existed, but to discover the eastern shores of Asia. He set sail for Cathay and stumbled upon America. With that change in the outlook of the world, what happened?
7 psl. - We must prove ourselves their friends, and champions upon terms of equality and honor. You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality. You cannot be friends at all except upon the terms of honor. We must show ourselves friends by comprehending their interest whether it squares with our own interest or not. It is a very perilous thing to determine the foreign policy...