The Thousand Miles Around the Southern Cross: A Popular Review of Life and Customs in Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Ancient Yucatan; ... of the Great Panama Canal (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The opinion seems to prevail in many quarters that our neigh bors below our Southern borders do not possess those attributes commonly associated with a high degree of civilization; in fact, there are to be found those who profess to believe that our friends still dwell in a condition of ignorance, superstition and industrial lethargy. As all travelers know, these impressions are erroneous and not in keeping with the actual conditions prevailing in the lands illumined by the glowing beacon of the Southern Cross. Nor can a misconception of this nature be conducive to the well - being of the great populations of the Three Americas. The Panama Canal - costing us hundreds of millions of money, together with an enormous outlay of energy and genius - should be the means of drawing this entire Western Hemisphere into closer bonds of commercial and social intercourse. Our neighbors have their faults, for none of us are perfect; but they are of kindly heart, and the-y regret that their brothers of the United States do not understand them as they deserve to. Be understood.

We Americans of the North are a broadminded, liberal-spirited people, and we should lose no time in extending to the Americans of the South a warm and hearty handclasp oi friendship. Let us not forget that they number nearly one hundred millions strong, and they and their respective countries are rapidly forging to the front ranks of modern nations.

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