Excerpt from Former Senator Burton's Trip to South America: 1915

It is a satisfaction to be able to make public the following outline of the visit made to South American countries by the Hon. Theodore E. Burton, lately United States Senator from Ohio, during the spring and early summer of 1915. Mr. Burton's trip, following so closely upon that of Mr. Robert Bacon, has plainly done much to extend and develop that sympathy between the various American Republics as well as that more complete understanding between them which is so marked a feature of the history of the past few years. The people of the two American continents are being made increasingly conscious of the fact that they share a common obligation and a common oppor tunity toward the maintenance and perfection of democratic institu tions. Despite great variance in population, in natural resources, in area, and in climate, the South American Republics have a large com mon fund of principles and of ideals. It is becoming that no effort should be spared to emphasize this fact and to make it so plain that he who runs may read.

Toward the accomplishment of this end no agency is likely to be more effective than frequent international visits on the part of gen uinely representative men. To promote and to develop this form of activity is one of the chief functions of the Division of Intercourse and Education.

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