North and South America, and that year by year it has in- 

 creased until it has become a potent influence over our politi- 

 cal and commercial intercourse. It is the same feeling which, 

 founded on sympathy and mutual interest, exists among the 

 members of a family. It is the tie which draws together 

 the twenty-one Republics and makes of them the American 

 Family of Nations. 



This feeling, vague at first, has become to-day a definite 

 and certain force. We term it the "Pan-American spirit," 

 from which springs the international policy of Pan-Ameri- 

 canism. It is that policy which is responsible for this great 

 gathering of distinguished men, who represent the best and 

 most advanced thought of the Americas. It is a policy which 

 tliis Government has unhesitatingly adopted and which it will 

 do all in its power to foster and promote. 



When we attempt to analyze Pan-Americanism we find 

 that the essential qualities are those of the family — sympathy, 

 helpfulness and a sincere desire to see another grow in pros- 

 perity, absence of covetousness of another's possessions, 

 absence of jealousy of another's prominence, and, above all, 

 absence of that spirit of intrigue which menaces the domestic 

 peace of a neighbor. Such are the qualities of the family 

 tie among individuals, and such should be, and I believe are, 

 the qualities which compose the tie which unites the American 

 Family of Nations. 



I speak only for the Government of the United States, 

 but in doing so I am sure that I express sentiments which 

 will find an echo in every Republic represented here, when 

 I say that the might of this country will never be exercised 

 in a spirit of greed to wrest from a neighboring state its 

 territory or possessions. The ambitions of this Republic do 

 not lie in the path of conquest but in the paths of peace and 



