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APRIL 4, 1013
The Commoner.
13
SOUTH AMERICA
Summarized extracts from address
of John Barrett, director general of
the Pan-American Union, Washing
ton, D. C, and formerly United States
minister to the Argentine Republic,
Panama and Colombia, before the
New York Peace society, at its annual
meeting, Thursday evening, January
30, 1913.
In the course of his address last
night before the New York Peace
Bociety, Director General John Bar
rett, of the Pan-American union,
after describing the broad "work
which the Pan-American union as an
international organization of the
American republics is doing for
peace through the agency of com
merce, travel, and general inter
course, and after pointing out what
the twenty Latin-American coun
tries are themselves doing for prac
tical peace, said:
"The greatest opportunity and re
sponsibility in the conduct of the
foreign affairs of the United States
before President-elect Wilson will be
in Latin-America. That mighty field
presents to him a possible record of
achievement offered by no other sec
tion of the world.
"Speaking as an international
officer of all the American republics
south of us, as well as of the United
States, that is, elected to my posi
tion by the vote of all of the Ameri
can governments, expressed Ihrough
their diplomatic representatives in
Washington, and knowing their feel
ings towards the United States, their
ambitions and their hopes, and hav
ing also learned from my earlier ex
perience among them, as United
States minister, what is their mental
attitude towards us, as well as what
are their resources and possibilities,
I trust that my words may not seem
amiss.
"The suggestion of this oppor
tunity and responsibility for the new
administration is, however, no reflec
tion upon the present or former ad
ministrations. It is simply prompted
by a realization of the coming pro
gress and potentialities of our sister
republics and of how much depends
upon the conduct and direction of
our diplomacy, our relations and our
intercourse with. them.
"We have broad opportunities and
responsibilities in Europe and in
Asia, but the problem in Latin
America is unique. The great ques
tion is: Are we to have for the fu
ture these twenty countries with ns,
or against us? Are wo to develop
confidence among them towards us,
as well as commerce with ub, or are
we, not by intention, but by careless-,
ness of attitude, to foster distrust
and thereby injure both our prestige
and our trade.
"Remembering that each one of
thesfe countries practically gained its
independence through the leader
ship of generals and patriots who
were inspired by the example of our
own George Washington, and bearing
in mind that nearly all of them have
written their constitutions upoq the
constitution of the United States, we
owe to them a certain responsibility
which weighs upon no other nation
of the world.
"If we assume towards them the
attitude that wo are the 'whole
thing,' that we are the biggest power
of the earth, and that therefore we
must be respected and followed, we
may fail; if we, on the other hand,
pursue a' thoroughly sympathetic and
helpful policy and show that we ap
preciate their progress, their good
qualities, and the importance of pro
viding a market In our country for
their products, as well as finding a
market In theirs for what we manu
facture, then we will gat results
which will count.
"We must do away with the ten
dency of a section of our prese and a
considerable number of our states
men and people to patronize Latin
America and the Latin Americans, to
criticise their supposed shortcomings
and to insist on their accepting al
ways our point of view. Wo must
remember that they look at many
questions from a different standpoint
than we do and that they value their
independence and their sovereignty
just as much as wo valuo ours.
"The opening of the Panama canal
should be the formal inauguration of
a new era in both commerce and con
fidence between North and South
America. It should celebrate in its
physical cutting of the hemisphere a
cementing of closer relations of trade
and friendship.
"Under the influence of the pro
paganda of the Pan-American union,
the exchange of commorcc between
tho United States and its twenty
sister American republics has grown
during the last six years tho period
of my administration of that organi
zation from approximately $4G0,
000,000 to $750,000,000, a remark
able increase of nearly $300,000,000.
Following the completion of tho
Panama canal and tho adoption of
policies and methods which I have
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