The Two Americas 



made long strides in the right direction, but we 

 have very much yet to learn. We all look forward 

 to the day when there shall be a nearer approxima 

 tion than there has ever yet been to the brotherhood 

 of man and the peace of the world. More and more 

 we are learning that to love one's country above all 

 others is in no way incompatible with respecting and 

 wishing well to all others, and that, as between man 

 and man, so between nation and nation, there should 

 live the great law of right. These are the goals to 

 ward which we strive; and let us at least earnestly 

 endeavor to realize them here on this continent. 

 From Hudson Bay to the Straits of Magellan, we, 

 the men of the two Americas, have been conquering 

 the wilderness, carving it into state and province, and 

 seeking to build up in state and province govern 

 ments which shall combine industrial prosperity and 

 moral well-being. Let us ever most vividly remem 

 ber the falsity of the belief that any one of us is to 

 be permanently benefited by the hurt of another. Let 

 us strive to have our public men treat as axiomatic 

 the truth that it is for the interest of every com 

 monwealth in the Western Hemisphere to see every 

 other commonwealth grow in riches and in happi 

 ness, in material wealth and in the sober, strong, 

 self-respecting manliness, without which material 

 wealth avails so little. 



To-day on behalf of the United States I welcome 



