Latin America and Colombia 



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Hand Propelled Freight Boat for Shallow Tributaries of Magdalena — I^arge river 



steamer in background 



LATIN AMERICA MAKING RAPID PROGRESS 



Many of our sister republics are now 

 making a progress that challenges the 

 attention and respect of the world. Some 

 of them are going forward with such 

 splendid energy that they are running a 

 close race with the past records of the 

 United States and the present achieve- 

 ments of Japan. Others are on the verge 

 of a progressive growth that will aston- 

 ish skeptical critics of the Latin race and 

 delight knowing admirers of their latent 

 possibilties. 



Tn short, it is safe to predict a forward 

 movement during the next decade for the 

 Latin American republics that will give 

 them a position and prominence among 

 the nations of the earth not thought pos- 

 sible a few years ago. It will bring to 

 them a commerce for which the United 

 States and Europe will compete with 

 every resource at their command. 



APPRECIATION OF EATIN AMERICA 



The speaker admits that he seems to 

 talk with an element of prejudice. 

 Frankly, he likes Latin America and the 

 Latin peoples ! The more he sees of 

 them the better he respects them. Would 

 that more North Americans could become 

 better acquainted with South Americans, 

 study more intimately their impulses, am- 

 bitions, hopes, achievements, and see 

 things from the Latin-American stand- 

 point. Otherwise expressed, it would be 

 a signal blessing to international Pan- 

 American accord, and it would inaugu- 

 rate immediately a new era in the rela- 

 tions of the United States with her sister 

 American republics, if, in thinking, writ- 

 ing, and speaking of them, their peoples, 

 and their politics, we could follow the old 

 Biblical adage and remove the beam from 

 our own eye before looking for the moat 

 in that of the Latin American. 



