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you here you, our brothers of the North, and you, 

 our brothers of the South; we wish you well; we 

 wish you all prosperity ; and we say to you that we 

 earnestly hope for your well-being, not only for your 

 own sakes, but also for our own, for it is a benefit 

 to each of us to have the others do well. The rela 

 tions between us now are those of cordial friendship, 

 and it is to the interest of all alike that this friendship 

 should ever remain unbroken. Nor is there the 

 least chance of its being broken, provided only that 

 all of us alike act with full recognition of the vital 

 need that each should realize that his own interests 

 can best be served by serving the interests of others. 



You, men of Canada, are doing substantially the 

 same work that we of this Republic are doing, and 

 face substantially the same problems that we also 

 face. Yours is the world of the merchant, the manu 

 facturer and mechanic, the farmer, the ranchman, 

 and the miner ; you are subduing the prairie and the 

 forest, tilling farm-land, building cities, striving to 

 raise ever higher the standard of right, to bring ever 

 nearer the day when true justice shall obtain between 

 man and man; and we wish Godspeed to you and 

 yours, and may the kindliest ties of good will al 

 ways exist between us. 



To you of the republics south of us, I wish to say 

 a special word. I believe with all my heart in the 

 Monroe Doctrine. This doctrine is not to be invoked 



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