substantial
evidence, that the new prosperity of Mexico is not evanescent and
temporary, but is permanent. I do not believe that Mexico will ever
again return to the disorder of the condition which characterized the
first sixty years of her independence. I believe that during this long
period of peace and order which has been secured for your people by your
great, wise, strong President Diaz, there has grown up a new spirit
among Mexicans and a new appreciation of individual duty to civilization
in the maintenance of peace and order.

So I go back, not only charmed with the beauty of your country, not only
delighted with the opportunity to see the wonderful historic monuments
you possess, not only delighted with the hospitality of your homes and
charmed with the character of your people, but I go back with the
feeling that the Mexican people have joined forever the ranks of the
great, orderly, self-controlled, self-governing republics of the world.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] This address was answered in appropriate terms by General Rincon
Gallardo as the representative of President Diaz, and among other things
he congratulated himself on the fact that the Mexican Committee had been
granted the pleasing privilege of continuing to San Antonio in order to
give there a welcome to the distinguished visitors. Lieutenant-Colonel
Samuel Garcia Cuellar also made an address. Neither of these addresses
were preserved.

[6] Yale lectures on the Responsibilities of Citizenship, 1907. See
also: _Addresses on Government and Citizenship_, by ELIHU ROOT; pp.
3-76. Harvard University Press, 1916.

ADDRESSES IN THE UNITED STATES ON LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS

THE CENTRAL AMERICAN PEACE CONFERENCE

In December, 1907, a Central American Peace Conference was
held at Washington, between delegates representing the five
Central American republics--Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Salvador. Mexico and the United States were
invited to participate in a friendly capacity and accepted
the invitation. The conference grew out of the initiative
taken during the previous summer by the presidents of the
United States and Mexico, in an endeavor to secure an
adjustment of then pending disputes between several of these
republics, in some form that would secure permanent peace
among them and foster their development. The conference was
called together by the fol