[46] The reference is to President Roosevelt's speech at the Guildhall in June, 1910.
[47] This refers to the declination of the British Government to be represented at the San Francisco world exhibition, held in 1915.
[48] John Bassett Moore, at that time the very able counsellor of the State Department.
[49] Mr. Root's masterly speech on Panama tolls was made in the United States Senate, January 21, 1913.
[50] Ante: page 202.
[51] This is the fact that is too frequently lost sight of in current discussions of the melting pot. In the Atlantic Monthly for August, 1920, Mr. William S. Rossiter, for many years chief clerk of the United States Census and a statistician of high standing, shows that, of the 95,000,000 white people of the United States, 55,000,000 trace their origin to England, Scotland, and Wales.
[52] The Ambassador's letter is dated March 18th.
[53] Mr. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, was one of the most blatant opponents of Panama repeal.