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"ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFE".
During the period from 1889 to 1907 two incidents revealed the standing that the republics of Hispanic America had now acquired in the world at large.

In 1889 at Washington, and later in their own capital cities, they met with the United States in council.

In 1899, and again in 1907, they joined their great northern neighbor and the nations of Europe and Asia at The Hague for deliberation on mutual concerns, and they were admitted to an international fellowship and cooperation far beyond a mere recognition of their independence and a formal interchange of diplomats and consuls.
Since attempts of the Hispanic countries themselves to realize the aims of Bolivar in calling the Congress at Panama had failed, the United States now undertook to call into existence a sort of inter-American Congress.

Instead of being merely a supporter, the great republic of the north had resolved to become the director of the movement for greater solidarity in thought and action.