The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-15
MExICO'S FOURTH.
Speech of Curtis Guild at Banquet
Celebrating independence.

Mexico City, Sept. 15.-"Friends
who gaxe at each other hand in hand,
on an equal footing and level eyed"
This was the figure felicitously en-
ployed by Curtis Guild, jr., special am
bassador of the United States to the
Mexican Centennial celebration, pic
turing the attitude of the American
and Mexican republics toward each
other, in his address at the public ban
Quet given here in the name of the
united States to the officers of the
Mexican republic.
Former Governor Guild expressed
his happiness in being privileged to
fortunate anniversary of which the
function in which he was participating
formed part, and continued:
The memory of Miguel Hidalgo's
uplifted lance with its sacred burden,
of the little congregation issuing forth
alone and unframed against the dis
ciplined armies of great nation must
ever be an inspiration to the entire
world. OF all the nations of the world,
however, represented here on this hun
dredth anniversary of the call to free
dom in the ancient land of Anahuac,
none can join in your acclaim with a
more thrilling sense of brotherhood
than your nearest neighbor, the ma
ton of Lexington and of Concord, Of
Saratoga and of yorktown. We are
proud in Mexico'S pride that the first
century of her independence was so
nobly begun. We are happy in your
| happiness that a century that began
| with such patriotism should end with
such honor. 1t is happy augcry that
the century that opened with the ap-
peal of an Hidalgo should close with
! the achievements of a Diaz.
ITO the gifts of freedom and indie
| pendence for Mexico for which her
first leader gave his life. her latest
leader has added the blessings of pros
! perity. of order and of peace. To few
| is it given to guide for SO long time
| the destinies of a nation. 1t is not
| fattery but fact that compels the testi-
| mony that to no other one man. in
modern days at least, has it been
given to take up a nation poor, dis
tracted, torn with invasion and disor-
| der and after a guidance of thirty
years to make that nation without
war, by sheer craftsmanship and the
| arts of peace alone not merely pros
porous and happy but respected and
honored throughout the world, a pow
| er to be reckoned with at the council
| board of the nations.
1--WE of the United States can never
! forget that Porfirio Diaz was the first
ruling chief of an American repub-
lie to step upon the soil of the United
States, an example that has just been
happily followed by others. President
Taft in similar fashion is, am inform
ed, the first president of any American
republic to set foot while in office
upon the soil of Mexico. 1t is a happy
augury for the future relations of
friendship and good will between these
two great nations that Mexico should
have established this precedent of
I American friendship in the United
States, that the United States should
have established it in Mexico.
1.-THE United States seeks no new
L territory, no new control. Our people
loathe war and seek peace, peace with
II honor. We congratulate you on the
high standards of Mexican credit and
of Mexican ideals. We ask that we
may work with you and with your sis
ter republic until the credit and the
/ honor of all America from the North
Pole to TERRA del F'uego shall have
won equal respect in every market OF
| the globe"