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mination of that great universal yearning for freedom, for peace, justice, 

 and amity. 



In introducing the last speaker on the formal program, the representa- 

 tive of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mr. Lansing 

 said: 



Now, gentlemen, we will call as our last speaker the representative of 

 the Carnegie Peace Endowment. I need not assure you, because you all 

 know, how earnestly and how zealously he has worked to make this 

 congress a success. 



Pan Americanism in its last analysis is peace, and nothing could be 

 more appropriate than one should speak in behalf of that great endowment 

 founded on that principle. Therefore, I call upon Dr. James Brown 

 Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endowment. 



ADDRESS OF DR. JAMES BROWN SCOTT. 



Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen : In the few words that I shall say 

 to-night, as I am the last speaker on the program and you have spoken 

 for the past ten days and been talked to constantly both in public and 

 in private, I shall not 



(Dr. Scott was here invited to a chair at the center of the table by the 

 Toastmaster.) 



The Secretary of State, in asking me to the center of the table, evi- 

 dently felt that I should leave out the introduction I was attempting to 

 deliver and that I should plunge at once in medias res, which I shall pro- 

 ceed to do. 



I assure you that I shall make but a very slight demand upon your 

 time and that I shall employ the few minutes, or moments rather, at my 

 disposal, in expressing the feeling of gratitude which all connected with 

 the Carnegie Endowment have for the kindness and courtesy with which 

 we have been treated by the Governments of the various American 

 Republics and by the delegates and by the good people of Latin America, 

 who were kind enough to accept our invitation to this country and whom I 

 have the pleasure of seeing before me to-night. 



In the first place, I would like to say on behalf of the endowment how 

 grateful we are to the Secretary of State, who instructed the diplomatic 

 agents of the United States to extend invitations to various scholars, 

 economists, and publicists of the Americas, in order that they might be 

 our guests at the Pan American Congress. 



