ES IN THE UNITED STATES ON LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE CONFERENCE 213
Opening Address, Washington, D. C., December 13, 1907 214
Closing Address, Washington, December 20, 1907 217

THE PAN AMERICAN CAUSE 219
Response to the Toast of the Ambassador of Brazil at a
dinner in honor of the Rear-Admiral and Captains of
visiting Brazilian ships, Washington, D. C., May 18,
1907

THE PAN AMERICAN UNION 223
Address at the laying of the corner stone of the
building for the Pan American Union, Washington, D. C.,
May 11, 1908 228

Address at the dedication of the building, Washington,
D. C., April 26, 1910 231

OUR SISTER REPUBLIC--ARGENTINA 235
Address at a Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce, New York,
April 28, 1893

OUR SISTER REPUBLIC--BRAZIL 239
Address at a Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce, New York,
June 18, 1913

HOW TO DEVELOP SOUTH AMERICAN COMMERCE 245
Address before the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress,
Kansas City, Missouri, November 20, 1906

SOUTH AMERICAN COMMERCE 269
Address at the National Convention for the Extension of
the Foreign Commerce of the United States, Washington,
D. C., January 14, 1907

INDIVIDUAL EFFORT IN TRADE EXPANSION 283
Address at the Pan American Commercial Conference,
Washington, D. C., February 17, 1911

THE SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS 291
Address of Welcome, Washington, D. C., December 30, 1915

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this is
one of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary of
War, as Secretary of State, and as Senator of the United States, during
which time, to use his own expression, his only client was his country.

The many formal and occasional addresses and speeches, which will be
found to be of a remarkably wide range, are followed by his state
papers, such as the instructions to the American delegates to the Seco