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course. Just at this time, of course, the 

 great increase of capital in the United 

 States is on the threshold of seeking in- 

 vestment abroad. We are about at the 

 close of the period during which all our 

 capital and all our energy were en- 

 grossed at home, and I can see in the 

 State Department an enormous in- 

 crease of business relations between 

 Americans and other countries. They 

 are going into construction work and 

 are pushing their way, making bank- 

 ing transactions, and all over Central 

 and South America capital is ready to 

 go. I take it to be the proper function 

 of government to help create situations 

 of friendly relations and good under- 

 standing, which will make it possible 

 for capital to go. 



* * * It seemed to me that I 

 could not do any more useful work to 

 the country for the promotion of 

 American trade interests and at the 

 same time for the promotion of these 

 relations which tend to maintain peace 

 and harmony than to foster and ad- 

 vance this tendency which finds its ex- 

 pression through the Union of Ameri- 

 can republics and these successive con- 

 ferences. 



UNITED STATES DELEGATION TO RIO 



The personnel of the board which 

 will represent the United States at 

 the Conference of the American Repub- 

 lics July 21, 1906, at Rio de Janeiro, 

 Brazil, consists of the following: W. 

 L. Buchanan, chairman of the Commis- 

 sion ; Leo S. Rowe, of the University 

 of Pennsylvania ; Mr Larrinaga, Porto 

 Rican Commissioner in Congress ; Van 

 Leer Polk, Tennessee ; ex-Governor 

 A. J. Montague, of Virginia; Paul S. 

 Reinsch, of the University of Wiscon- 

 sin, vice James S. Harlan, declined, and 

 Charles R. Dean, of the State Depart- 

 ment, secretary of the Commission. In 

 addition to these the Bureau of the 

 American Republics will be represent- 

 ed by its Director, Williams C. Fox. 



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