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integrity of purpose and equity in action. Let us as members 

 of this Congress, therefore, meet together on the plane of 

 common interests and together seek the common good. 

 Whatever is of common interest, whatever makes for the 

 common good, whatever demands united effort is a fit subject 

 for applied Pan-Americanism. Fraternal helpfulness is the 

 keystone to the arch. Its pillars are faith and justice. 



In this great movement this congress will, I believe, play 

 an exalted part. You, gentlemen, represent powerful intel- 

 lectual forces in your respective countries. Together jj^ou 

 represent the enlightened thought of the continent. The 

 policy of Pan-Americanism is practical. The Pan-American 

 spirit is ideal. It finds its source and being in the minds of 

 thinking men. It is the offspring of the best, the noblest 

 conception of international obligation. 



With all earnestness, therefore, I commend to you, gen- 

 tlemen, the thought of the American Republics, twenty-one 

 sovereign and independent nations, bound together by faith 

 and justice, and firmly cemented by a sympathy which knows 

 no superior and no inferior, but which recognizes only equality 

 and fraternity. 



