Show AMERICAN CONGRESS the congress of american nations which will be held in washington during the present year may if properly conducted as there is every reason to believe it will be be made productive of most beneficial results not to this country alone but to our sister republics of mexico central and south america and the great and nourishing flourishing but scarcely developed empire of brazil as well As the leading nation upon the two american continents the one embracing the greatest population the greatest accumulation of wealth and which unquestionably represents the most advanced type of american civilization and progress it is eminently proper that the united states should have taken the initiative in this matter and that the congress should meet for deliberation i and discussion at the capital city of this republic there the investigations can be better pursued than abany other point on either continent an ani probably with more comfort and d dispatch a api h the commissioners from the other t h r republics and from the emp empire re of brazil will be heartily welcomed and hospitably entertained and our people will take a keen been and lively interest in all their proceedings but now a word to our own countrymen the representatives of the united states government must not enter this congress imbued with the idea that they are necessarily to have things all their own way or that what they propose must necessarily be adopted while great respect is entertained for the people the government and the institutions of the united states by our net neighbors h to the south of us there is ateo undoubtedly felt a degree of suspicion as to our purposes and ultimate intentions it is in fact the suspicion which which the weaker almost invariably entertains towards his stronger and more powerful neighbor 1 if f the coming conference is to be productive of beneficial results it must early be made apparent to the tn representatives of our american Americ su neighbors that the united states 18 10 dealing fairly and squarely arely and that for every concession it ask a or privilege r it seeks to obtain v it fa Is proposed to give value re we must not undertake to drive harsh barsh or even sharp bargains to do SO 80 would woula be to defeat the very pur purposes for which the congress is to mee na and to leave us practically relations between ourselves and our southern neighbors even more unsatisfactory than those at present existing and which have existed for so go long a time past the spanish and portuguese americans A no with whom our depre rep senta tives will have to deal in the not at all a coming congress are like the great majority of our own people they are to be sure sum hos os brave and generous and bitable pi table but they are also intensely jealous of their own dignity Y their own independence their own rights and privileges they are more superstitious than thai i our own people and the utmost frankness and good faith must be observed in 10 them if i the 1 all our dealings with of to be 0 anticipated negotiations are any practical value states and indeed the united wants no undue advantage over avy any to J v of her american neighbors to build u up our trade with the them tons effta establish blis closer commercial rell which shall prove of mutual benefit and to agree if such a thing be w the outline of a go possible upon eral american as fl uv ed from a european policy 8 the be our sole aim and endeavor at w conference so soon to be held beld at some future time we way may ado speak with more particularity naturally wv the subjects which will and necessarily come up for discus for b autv ut the conference sion before that the present it is sufficient to SAY aay 10 matters are of great ha interest terest and 00 0 artance and that a satisfactory win fu aution aton of the problems which would v be come under consideration AD to of a great and lasting benefit the nations affected the w he our trade with AJ mexico exico and w central and south american it ought to be quadruple what it Is of may be made so in the course coursed or of the few years if the deliberations 10 coming conference are conduce Y f the and the spirit they should be can ba e several governments govern mente aff ted bow induced to give effect to the trado recommendations our al ances relations with mexico and ce too and south america have hj beed sadly neglected na new W and fa braren Vf oo 00 |