Show PRETTY GOOD FOR A BULLETIN Managers of or tho the International Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- reau of American Republics are are rather rathe proud of their most recent bulletin I It Is called the stone corner edition and contains a ver very T complete report o othe of the exercises attendant upon the la layIng layIng lay lay- Ing of oC the stone corner for tho the new ew building at Washington which is to b be bethe betho the tho home of the bureau It contains contain portraits of or all the principal actors in that celebration the he text of their speeches pictures of the building t to toVO tobe bo VO erected and much other m material It appears in both English and Span Span- I ish And It was issued the day following the stone corner services ser That is pretty prett good for a bulletin and excuses tho the rather modest boast boas boast of the tho publishers that they might a almost almost al- al most be classed with newspaper men Of course newspaper men will Understand understand understand un un- bow how easy casy it has been for th the bure bureau u people to get advance copieS copie of all the tho speeches and to have access to the the architects' architects plans and drawings I And of or f course eYer every facility of th the government printing office has been a at their disposal But Dut oven even with these thes things in in their favor the they have dona done don donea a very er creditable work This bulletin should be bo in tho the library of ever every ery thoughtful American citizen It tells tell the whole story of the tho pan American movement from its Inception to thi this good day when Vohen tho the nations of ot th the Western hemisphere are more nearl nearly united when they ar are tre getting better bette acquainted and when the last fast vestige of jealously and hatred has vanished away There will be better Intercourse b be be- 1 tween the tho western republics Our merchants will learn the value of or the South American tra and they of or that region will come to appreciate the sup superior su su- cu- cu p perlor rI r qualities of or merchandise from the tho United States S OJ One of the he pappy happy phases of or the bulletin bulletin bul html letin Is the very generous and very verj just credit given to James G. G Blame Dlaine for his part in beginning the movement movement movement move move- ment which has now gone so 50 far toward toward toward to to- ward completion For man many years cars Mr Ir Blaino advocated a better friendship for the tho Latin American i countries He was as opposed and laughed at but he persisted because he ho could see the tho ver very great advantages to be bo gained b by it In the broadest citizenship he worked for a pan American commercIal commercial commer commer- cial union for a bureau at Washington Washing Washing- ton toLl in which all the he a affairs airs of all the countries could coul be bo discussed and Understood understood un Un- and in which better arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments could be made mado for the advance of business among all tho the members Whatever benefit there may be ve in inthe inthe inthe the movement mo celebrated In the laying of or the stone corner there at Washing Washington ton on the tho morning of May 11 1908 is directly to the great mind and the tile splendid persistency of James G G. G Elaine Blame None Kone but a big statesman I could have seen the goal boal to be ve won I And nono but a consummate diplomat i could have havo achieved success He is dead ead and amid gone now noro and years have havo passed since sinco he closed his very ery useful career But the every stone In the tIme wall of that new building and every advance to commercial and political fraternity between the United States St.-Ites and the republics of the tho western continent con con- is a panel in the tho monument of at of James G. G Blame Blaine I |