Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-11-14

not be friends at all except upon
the terms of honor and we must
show ourselves friends by COM
pretending their interest,
whether it squares with our in
terests or not. 1t is a very
perilous thing to determine the
foreign policy of a nation in the
terms of marterial interest. 1t
not only is unfair to those with
whom you are dealing, but it is
degrading on the part of your
own actions. Comprehension
must be the soil in which shall
grow all the fruits of friendship;
because there is a reason and a.
compulsion lying behind all this
which is dearer than anything
else to the thoughtful men of
America. | mean the depart
ment of constitutional liberty
in the world. Human rights, ma
tional integrity and opportunity
as against material interests,
that ladies and gentlemen, is the
issue which we now have to
face.
u. S. WANTS NO TERRITORY
BY CONQUEST.
81 want to take this occasion
to say that the United States
will never again seek one adj
ditional foot of territory by con-
quest. She will devote herself
to showing that she knows how
to make honorable and fruitful
use of the territory she has and
she must regard it as one of the
duties of friendship to see that
from no quarter are material
interests made superior to hui
man liberty and national OPP
portunity. ] say this, not with a
single thought that any one will
gainsay it, but merely to fix in
out consciousness what our real
relations with the rest of
America is. 1t is the relation
ship of a family of mankind de-
voted to the development of true
constitutional liberty. We know
that that is the soil out of which
the best enterprise springs. We
know that this is a cause which
we are making in common with
them because we have had to
make it for ourselves.
!! Reference has been made
here today to some of the ma
tional problems which confront
us as nation. What is the heart
of all our national problems? 1t
is that we have seen the hand
of material interest sometimes
about to close upon our dearest
interests and possessions. We
have seen material interests
threaten constitutional freedom
in America. Therefore we will
now know how to sympathize
with those in America who have
to contend with that, not only
without their borders, but from
outside their borders also. l.
know what the response of the
thought and heart of America
will be to a program like that.
because America was created
to realize a program like that.
This is not America because it
is rich, this is not America be-
cause it has set up for a great
population great opportunities
of material property. America
is a name which sounds in the
ears of men everywhere as a
synonym of Individual oppor-
tunity because it is a synonym
of Individual liberty. l would
rather belong to a poor nation
that was free than to a rich ma
ton that had ceased to be in love, |
with liberty. But we shall not |
be poor if we love liberty, be-
cause the nation that loves
liberty truly sets every man free
to do his best and be his best |
and that means the release of |
all the splendid energies of a |
great people who think for them
selves. A nation of employ ees
cannot be free any more than a |
nation of employers can be.
so in emphasizing the points
which must unite us in sympathy
and in spiritual interest with
the Latin-American people, we
are only emphasizing the points
of our own life, and we should
prove ourselves untrue to our
own traditions if we prove our
selves untrue friends today. Do
not think. therefore, gentlemen,
that questions of the day are
mere questions of policy and