Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-10-28
DR.. PIERCE'S FAVORETE PRESCB

seek one additional foot of territory by
conquest. She will devote herself to show
ing that she knows how to make honor
able 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 human liberty and ma
tional opportunity. 1 say this, not with
single thought that anyone will gain
say ii, but merely to fix in our conscious
ness what our real relationship with the
rest of America is. 1t is the relationship
of family of mankind devoted to the
development of true constitutional liber-
ty. 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 1t for ourselves.
Reference has been made here, today,
to some of the national problems which
confront us as q nation. What Is the
heart of all our national problems? 1t
is that we have seen the hand of mate
rial interest sometimes about to close
upon our dearest interests and possess
sons We have seen material interests
threaten constitutional freedom in Amer
lea. Therefore. we will now know how
to sympathize with those in America
who have to contend with that, not only
within their borders. but from outside
their borders also. 1 know what the re-
sponse 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 Ameri.
ca because 1t is rich.
ssTbiS iS ran bo
set up for a great population great OPP
portunities of material prosperity.
America is name which sounds in the
ears of men everywhere as a synonym
of individual opportunity, as a synonym
of individual liberty. / would rather be-
long to poor nation that was free than
to a rich nation that had ceased to be
at liberty. We shall not be poor if the
love liberty, because 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 en-
ergies Of great people, who think for
themselves. A nation of employees can
not be free any more than nation Of
employers can be.
so in emphasizing the points which
must unite US in sympathy and IN spirit.
ual 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 ira
ditons if we proved ourselves untrue
friends, today. Do not think, therefore,
gentlemen, that questions of the day are
mere questions of policy and diplomacy
They are shot through with the principles
of life. We dare not turn from the prin-
ciple that morality and not expediency
is the thing that must guide up and that
We will never condone inequity because
1t is most convenient to do so.
$50 it seems to me that this Is a day
of infinite hope, of confidence in a fu-
ture greater than the past has been. For
I am fain to believe that in spite OF all
the things that we wish to correct the
nineteenth century that now lies behind
us has brought us long stage toward
the time when. slowly ascending the
tedious climb that leads to the flna1 up
lands, upon which we shall get the ulti-
mate view of the beauties of mankind,
we, nevertheless, have breasted a consid-
cradle part of that climb. and shall pres
entity, it may be in a generation or two,
come out upon these great heights where
there shines, unobstructed, the light of
the justice of God"