Nowhere in the world has this progress been more marked than
in Latin America. Out of the wrack of Indian fighting and
race conflicts and civil wars, strong and stable governments
have arisen. Peaceful succession in accord with the people's
will has replaced the forcible seizure of power permitted by
the people's indifference. Loyalty to country, its peace,
its dignity, its honor, has arisen above partizanship for
individual leaders.
You add:
We wish to increase our prosperity, to expand our trade, to
grow in wealth, in wisdom, and in spirit, but our conception
of the true way to accomplish this is not to pull down
others and profit by their ruin, but to help all friends to
a common prosperity and a common growth, that we may all
become greater and stronger together.
The University of Lima, an important factor in our national life,
accepts on its part, and in harmony with public thought, your noble
invitation.
This University, the distinguished creation of the great Spanish
monarchs, proud of its noble lineage of five centuries, jealous of its
glories, believes it to be its duty and considers it a special honor to
offer you, the illustrious messenger, the deep thinker, and the highest
co-worker in the government of Theodore Roosevelt, the peacemaker of the
world, a post of honor.
The Faculty of Political and Administrative Sciences, founded thirty
years ago by the distinguished President Manuel Pardo, and organized by
the eminent public writer Pradier Fodere--this Faculty, which professes,
without limitations, the doctrines of international and political law as
proclaimed in your country, is the one which with just right offers you
this University emblem, which I am pleased to place in the hands of Your
Excellency [addressing the President of Peru, and handing him the medal
of the University] that you may kindly deliver it to our illustrious
guest.