194 The Two Americas 



for the aggrandizement of any one of us here on this 

 continent at the expense of any one else on this con 

 tinent. It should be regarded simply as a great in 

 ternational Pan-American policy, vital to the inter 

 ests of all of us. The United States has, and ought 

 to have, and must ever have, only the desire to see 

 her sister commonwealths in the Western Hemi 

 sphere continue to flourish, and the determination 

 that no Old World power shall acquire new territory 

 here on this Western Continent. We of the two 

 Americas must be left to work out our own salva 

 tion along our own lines ; and if we are wise we will 

 make it understood as a cardinal feature of our joint 

 foreign policy that, on the one hand, we will not sub 

 mit to territorial aggrandizement on this continent 

 by any Old World power, and that, on the other 

 hand, among ourselves each nation must scrupu 

 lously regard the rights' and interests of the others, 

 so that, instead of any one of us committing the 

 criminal folly of trying to rise at the expense of our 

 neighbors, we shall all strive upward in honest and 

 manly brotherhood, shoulder to shoulder. 



A word now especially to my own fellow-country 

 men. I think that we have all of us reason to be sat 

 isfied with the showing made in this Exposition, as in 

 the great expositions of the past, of the results of 

 the enterprise, the shrewd daring, the business en 

 ergy and capacity, and the artistic and, above all, the 



