Latin America and the United States / Addresses by Elihu Root

by Elihu Root

INDEX

• Adams, John Quincy, American president, [xiii], [21], [76], [79], [90], [94], [251].
• Ahumada, Mexican governor, speech of, [208] f.
• Alaska, [248].
• Alliances, traditional policy of the United States concerning, [86].
• Altruism, ideal of, [244].
• Amazon, river, [46].
• America, services of, to the world's civilization, [169] f.
• American colony, the, at Mexico city, [177-181].
• American Institute of International Law, the, [291], [293].
• Andes, the, [27], [74], [101], [248].
• Apollonius Molon, Greek orator, anecdote of, [188].
• Arbitration, international, [170];
  • practical difficulties in, [142] f.
• Argentina, [73-102], [235-238], [248], [249], [264], [272], [275].
• Arias, Ricardo, speech of, [145-148].
• Armenians, the, [26].
• Arthur, Chester Alan, American president, [252].
• Artigas, José, dictator of Uruguay (1811-1820), [64].
• Atheneum, the, at Montevideo, Uruguay, [65-71].
• Austria, [26], [257], [261].
  
• Bahia, Brazil, [48-54], [258].
• Bahia Blanca, [258].
• Banks, importance of, in securing South American trade, [255].
• Barbosa, Ruy, Brazilian senator, [32];
  • speeches of, [19-28], [52] ff.
• Barrett, John, director of the Pan American Union, [153], [232].
• Barrios, Senator, speech of, [130] f.
• Batlle y Ordóñez, José, president of Uruguay, speech of, [60-63].
• Bayard, Thomas Francis, secretary of state, [21].
• Belgium, [248].
• Bismarck, Otto von, German statesman, [261].
• Blaine, James Gillespie, American statesman, [5], [21], [42], [91], [232], [252] f.
• Blancos, Uruguayan faction, [64], [65].
• Blending of races, effect of, [238].
• Bolívar, Simón, Venezuelan general, [129], [154].
• Bolivia, [75], [248], [249], [272].
• Borglum, Gutzon, sculptor, [232].
• Brazil, [3-54], [166], [219], [239-244], [248], [249], [257], [264], [265], [275], [277].
• Bristow, Joseph Little, United States senator, [260].
• Buchanan, William Insco, American diplomat, [147], [214].
• Buenos Ayres, xiii, [73-102], [257], [258], [273].
• Buffalo Exposition, the, [172] f.
• Bureau of American Republics, establishment of the, [91].
• Byron, Lord, [236];
  • characterization of Washington by, [134].
• 
  
• Calero, Manuel, speech of, [168-174].
• Calhoun, John Caldwell, American statesman, [21], [251].
• Callao, [115], [258].
• Camargo, Theodomiro de, speech of, [35] f.
• Canada, [110] f., [257], [261], [265].
• Canning, George, English statesman, [78], [79].
  • investment of American capital in Mexico, [201].
• Capital, opportunities for, in South America, [256] f.;
• Caribbean Sea, the, [55], [159], [258], [272], [273], [274], [292].
• Carlos, king of Portugal, [219].
  • letter of, [226] f.;
  • letter of Mr. Root to, [225] f.;
  • resolutions concerning, [227].
• Carnegie, Andrew, contributes towards the construction of the Building of the Pan American Union, [223], [228], [231];
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the, [291].
• Cartagena, Colombia, [153] ff., [258].
• Casasus, Joaquín D., speech of, [184-188].
• Castlereagh, Viscount, British premier, [77], [78].
• Central America, [50], [117], [264], [266], [272], [292].
• Central American Peace Conference, the, [xiv], [213-218].
• Chamber of Commerce, the, of New York, [239-244].
• Chamber of Deputies, the, in Mexico, [168-177].
• Charleston, the, [55], [166].
• Chile, [103-112], [248], [249], [275].
• China, [36].
• Cicero, anecdote of, [188].
• Civilization, the process of, [233].
• Clay, Henry, American statesman, [xiii], [5], [21], [28], [75], [76], [90], [94], [251].
• Cleveland, Grover, American president, [252].
• Coffee, importance of, to Brazil, [41].
• Colombia, [152-155], [160], [166], [248].
• Colorados, Uruguayan faction, [64], [65].
• Columbia School of Mines, the, [257].
• Columbus, Christopher, [57].
• Commerce and Labor, Department of, [254].
• Communication, importance of means of, [257-267].
• Consular service, the, [279] ff.
• Conti, sculptor, [232].
• Coquimbo, [258].
• Cornejo, Mariano, Peruvian envoy, speech of, [11] f.
• Corral, Ramón, Mexican vice-president, speeches of, [192] f., [203] f.
• Cortelyou, George Bruce, postmaster-general, [265].
• Cortés, Hernán, Spanish soldier, [56].
• Costa Rica, [213].
• Credit system, the, in South America, [255].
• Creel, Enrique C., Mexican diplomat, [214].
• Cret, Paul Phillippe, architect, [231].
• Cuba, [35], [160], [275], [276], [277].
• Cuellar, Samuel García, Mexican officer, [162].
  
• Dakotas, the, [287].
• Darcy, Dr. James, speech of, [16] f.
• Declaration of Independence, the, [170].
• Declaration of the rights of man, the, [57], [64].
• Dehesa, Teodoro A., Mexican governor, speech of, [206].
• Demosthenes, [187].
  • speech of, [162] ff.
• Díaz, Porfirio, Mexican president, [158], [161], [167] f., [172], [181], [192], [194], [202], [203], [206], [207], [210];
• Dickens, Charles, observations of, on America, [179].
• Drago, Luis M., speech of, xiii, [93-97].
• Drago doctrine, the, [95] f.
  
• Ecuador, [248].
• Elguera, Federico, speech of, [127] ff.
• El Señor Root en Mexico, [158].
• England, [64], [246], [247], [248], [257], [261].
• Europe, [4], [48], [51], [57], [59], [60], [61], [246], [251], [256], [257], [258], [259], [270].
• Evarts, William Maxwell, secretary of state, [21].
  • note of, [121] f.
• Everett, Edward, American statesman, [21];
• 
  
• Federalist, The, [21], [24].
• Figueroa, Alcorta, J., president of Argentina, speech of, [81-84].
• Florida, [75].
• Fodéré, Pradier, Peruvian publicist, [135].
• Forsyth, John, secretary of state, [21].
• France, [57], [64], [100], [190], [221], [247], [257], [261], [262].
• Franklin, Benjamin, American philosopher and statesman, [29].
• Free ships, policy of, [262].
• Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, secretary of state, [252].
  
• Gama, Brazilian commercial teacher, speech of, [36] ff.
• Garnett, American congressman, [78].
• Garrison, William Lloyd, American abolitionist, [23].
• Germans, in Brazil, [249] f.
• Germany, [57], [100], [190], [247], [257], [261], [262].
• Gettysburg, battle of, [178].
• Gonçalvez, Sigismundo, governor of Pernambuco, [47].
• Government, functions of, [132].
• Grant, Ulysses Simpson, American general and president, [198], [199].
• Great Britain, [57], [251], [257].
• Greece, [26].
• Grey, Lord, [110].
• Guadalajara, Mexico, [208] ff.
• Guatemala, [213], [272], [273].
• Guimarães, Paula, Brazilian deputy, speech of, [30] f.
  
• Hague Conference, Second, in 1907, [3], [171], [233].
• Hague Tribunal of Arbitration, the, [158].
• Hamilton, Alexander, American statesman, [21], [83].
• Harrison, Benjamin, American president, [252].
• Harte, Francis Bret, American author, [288].
• Hay, John, secretary of state, and author, [21].
• Hicks, John, American diplomat, [108].
• Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel, Mexican priest and revolutionist, [176], [206], [207].
• Holy Alliance, the, [77], [251].
• Honduras, [213].
• Huneeus, Antonio, Chilean minister, address of, [104-108].
• Hungary, [26].
  
• Iberian Peninsula, the, [51], [240].
  • passing of their civilization in Mexico, [209].
• Ibsen, Henrik, Norwegian dramatic poet, [16].
• Indians, [7], [47];
• International Bureau of the American Republics, the, [223].
• Iowa, [287].
• Isolation, disadvantages of, [233].
• Italy, [247], [257], [261], [262].
  
• Jalisco, Mexican state, [208].
• Japan, [26], [261].
• Jay, John, American statesman, [83].
• Jefferson, Thomas, American president, [xiii], [5], [21], [23], [29], [79], [94], [251].
• Jews, the, [26], [48].
• Juárez, Benito, Mexican president, [176].
  
• Kansas, [287].
• Kansas City, [255], [270].
• Kelsey, Albert, architect, [231].
• Knox, Philander Chase, secretary of state, [232].
  
• Laboulaye, Édouard de, French historian, [134].
• Lafayette, Marquis de, French general and statesman, [28], [54], [237].
• Lancaster, house of, [64].
• Landa y Escandón, Guillermo de, speech of, [165] ff.
• Laredo, [210].
  • speech of, [195] ff.
• Lima, [113-144], [257].
• Limantour, José, Mexican minister, [161];
• Lincoln, Abraham, American president, [94], [174], [178], [198].
• Lobos Islands, controversy concerning, [121] f., [126].
• London, [26], [76] f.
• Lota, [258].
  
• McKinley, William, American president, [36], [246].
• Madison, James, American president, [21], [23], [74], [79], [83], [94], [251].
• Magoon, Charles E., provisional governor of Cuba, [147] f.
• Mann, Horace, American educator, [101].
• Marcelino de Souza, José, governor of Bahia, speech of, [48] ff.
• Marcy, William Learned, American statesman, [21].
• Marshall, John, American jurist, [xiii], [21], [83].
• Martínez, Mucio P., governor of Puebla, speech of, [204] f.
• Massachusetts, [248].
• Massachusetts Bay, [51].
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the, [257].
• Material benefits, importance of, [170].
• Maurtua, Peruvian savant, [291].
• Mediterranean, the, [26].
• Méndez, Luis, speech of, [181-184].
• Merchant Marine Commission, the, [266].
• Mexican Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence, the, [181-191].
• Mexican Country Club, the, [177-181].
• Mexico, [50], [152-210], [215], [264], [265], [272], [273].
• Missouri, [248].
• Mitre, Emilio, speech of, [73-81].
• Mob, rule of the, [141].
• Mogy-Guasú, the, river in Brazil, [41].
• Monroe, James, American president, [xiii], [5], [14], [21], [56], [58], [74], [78], [79] f., [84], [99], [172], [251], [252].
• Monroe Doctrine, the, [xiii], [50], [56], [58], [61], [74], [79] f., [117], [172] f., [243].
• Montague, Andrew Jackson, American delegate, speech of, [13].
• Montenegro, Augusto, governor of Pará, speech of, [45] f.
• Montevideo, [55-71], [258].
• Müller, Lauro, Brazilian minister, [239-244].
• Mukden, battle of, [171].
  
  • speech of, [3-6].
• Nabuco, Joaquim, the elder, [47].
• Nabuco, Joaquim, Brazilian ambassador, [17], [47], [48], [219], [234];
• National Convention for the Extension of the Foreign Commerce of the United States, address of Mr. Root at the, [269-281].
• Nazareth de Arujo, Galaor, speech of, [36].
• Nebraska, [287].
• New Orleans, [264].
• New York, city, [26], [115], [166], [255], [258].
• New York, state, [287].
• Nicaragua, [213].
• Norcross, Orlando Whitney, American builder and contractor, [232].
• North American Society of the River Plata, the, [87] f.
• Norway, [257], [261].
• Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, [161] f.
  
• Orient, the, [264], [270], [286].
• Orizaba, Mexico, [206] f.
• Oyapoc, river in South America, [27].
  
• Pacific railroads, the, [263].
• Palacio Monroe, [xiii], [14].
• Panama, [145-151], [166].
• Panama, Isthmus of, [258], [264].
• Panama Canal, the, [111], [115], [149], [159], [271], [275].
• Panama Railroad, the, [260].
• Panama Railroad Company, the, [258].
• Pan American Commercial Conference, address of Mr. Root at, [283-293].
• Pan American Conference, First, at Washington, [xii], [225], [229], [252] f., [291].
• Pan American Conference, Second, at Mexico, [xi], [225], [229], [253].
• Pan American Conference, Third, at Rio de Janeiro, xii, xiii, [3-14], [173], [224] f., [229], [253].
• Pan American Railroad, the, [272] f.
• Pan American Scientific Congress, Second, address of Mr. Root at, [291] ff.
• Pan American Union, the, [91], [223-234].
• Pará, Brazil, [44], [45] f., [258].
• Paranahyba, the, river in Brazil, [41].
• Pardo, Manuel, Peruvian statesman, [135].
• Pardo y Barreda, José, president of Peru, speech of, [113] f.
• Paulistas, [39], [40].
• Peaceable invasion, [189].
• Pernambuco, Brazil, [47] f., [54], [258].
• Peru, [11], [12], [113-144], [248], [249], [257], [272], [275].
• Philadelphia, [29].
• Pious Fund, the, [158].
• Piracy, [26].
• Pizarro, Francisco, Spanish soldier, [56], [257].
• Plutarch, [188].
• Political science, chief contribution of the United States to, [141].
• Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [26].
• Portugal, [221].
• Prado y Ugarteche, Javier, speech of, [116-123].
• Prussia, [100].
• Public opinion, rule of, [220] f.
• Puebla, Mexico, [204] f.
• Punta Arenas, [258].
• Purdie, Francis B., speech of, [86-89].
• Puritan element, the, in America, [56].
  
• Randolph, Edmund, American statesman, [21].
• Recife, see Pernambuco.
• Religious toleration, [170].
• Reyes, Rafael, Colombian president, [154], [155].
• Rezende, Doctor, speech of, [41] f.
• Rhodes, [188].
• Ribeyro, Ramón, speech of, [136].
  • speech of, [161] f.
• Riesco, Jermán, president of Chile, speech of, [103].
  • speeches of, [13], [14].
• Rincón Gallardo, Pedro, Mexican officer, [161];
• Rio Branco, Baron do, Brazilian minister, [18];
• Rio de Janeiro, [xii], [xiii], [3-35], [40], [55], [58], [63], [66], [67], [68], [95], [107], [136], [257], [258].
• Rio de la Plata, [27], [56], [74].
• Rio Grande, the, [161], [196].
• Rivadavia, Bernardino, Argentine statesman, [78].
• Rochambeau, Comte de, French general, [237].
• Romeu, José, Uruguayan minister, speech of, [55-58].
• Roosevelt, Theodore, American president, [5], [13], [14], [28], [30], [58], [65], [84], [97], [108], [114], [115], [117], [135], [158], [163], [164], [166], [171], [172] f., [185], [193], [198], [205], [206], [208], [257].
• Roses, Wars of the, [64].
• Rousseau, Jean Jacques, Swiss-French philosopher, [236].
• Rush, Richard, American diplomat, [xiii], [76] f., [84], [251].
• Russia, [26].
  
• St. Louis, Missouri, [13], [255].
• Salisbury, Marquis of, [142].
• Salvador, [213].
• San Antonio, Texas, [158], [159] ff.
• San Francisco, [106], [287].
• San Marcos, University of, [133-144], [291].
• San Martín, José de, Argentine general, [101].
• San Martín, Zorrilla de, speech of, [65-69].
• Santiago, Chile, [103-112].
• Santo Domingo, unhappy condition of, [160], [275] ff.
• Santos, Brazil, [41-45], [258].
• São Paulo, Brazil, [35-40], [54].
• Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino, Argentine president, [100] f.
• Scandinavia, [16].
• Schurz, Carl, American statesman, [171].
• Sentiment, power of, [70].
• Seward, William Henry, American statesman, [5], [21], [164], [198], [199].
• Smith, William, botanist, [232].
  • Mr. Root's addresses in the United States on topics relating to South America, [235-293].
• Solís, Juan Díaz de, Spanish navigator, [56].
• South America, Mr. Root's visit to, in 1906, [xi-xiv], [3-155];
• Spain, [26], [57], [75], [77], [235], [247], [257], [261].
• Steamships, cost of operating, [260].
• Subsidies, maritime, [261-267], [274], [285] ff.
• Sweden, [221].
  
• Taft, William Howard, American president, [148], [232].
  • maximum and minimum, [277] ff.;
  • discriminating tariff duties, [262] f.
• Taney, Roger Brooke, American jurist, [83].
• Tariff, protective, [274];
• Texas, [161].
• Thompson, David E., American diplomat, [192-197].
• Tieté, the, river in Brazil, [41].
• Tocopilla, [258].
• Trade expansion, individual effort in, [283-293].
• Trade routes, importance of, [111], [115], [149].
• Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, address of Mr. Root before, [245-267].
• Tucuman, Congress of, [75].
• Tuileries, burning of the, [64].
• Turkey, [26].
  
• Uruguay, [55-71], [249], [264].
• Uruguay, river, [46].
  
• Valparaiso, [103], [112], [258].
• Vásquez-Cobo, Colombian minister, address of, [153] f.
• Venezuela, [74].
• Vera Cruz, Mexican state, [206] f.
• Villarán, Luis F., speech of, [133] ff.
  
• Washington, city, [273].
• Washington, George, American president, [xiii], [21], [23], [28], [83], [94], [101], [129], [134], [198], [206], [207], [233] f., [237].
• Webster, Daniel, American statesman, [5], [21].
• West Indian countries, difficulties of, [274-277].
• White, Andrew Dickson, American diplomat, [284], [285].
• Wirt, William, American statesman, [251].
• Wotton, Sir Henry, statement of, [245].
  
• Yale University, [182], [187].
• York, house of, [64].

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