Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-27


friends sooner than we could triumph
as her enemies"
Senor Gamboa's note, which was
appended to the Presidents address
as an exhibit, was not read by the
President, but furnished to Congress
as a printed document.
Wilson Family In Gallery.
Mrs. Wilson and her daughters and
Secretary Bryan had taken places in
the executive gallery. Other members
OF the cabinet had taken places on
! the floor. Every head In the cham
her had been bowed and the solemnity
of the occasion was impressive as the
House chaplain, the Rev. Henry ID.
Gouden, in his opening prayer. said:
| Rule thou In the hearts of our
rulers and sway tho, minds of these
Thy servants that as a nation we
may move forward to all that Is pure
and noble, until all the peoples of all
the world shall recognize the purity
of our motives"
Although deafening voIley of APP
plause rang out as the President ap-
peared, he plunged into the reading of
his message without delay and with a
bow of acknowledgment of the greet
ing.
The President finished reading at
, 1'21 o'clock Another great roar of
! applause broke out. All those In the
galleries stood while the President
left the chamber and started back to
the White House.
The joint session at once dissolved.
the House adjourned and the Senate
filed back to it's side of the capitol
WASHINGTON Aug. 27-President
Wilson in person addressed Congress
today on the Mexican situation as fol-
lows:
Gentlemen of the Congress-It is
clearly my duty to lay before you,
very fully and without reservation.
the facts concerning our present re-
lations with the republic of Mexico.
The deplorable posture of affairs in
Mexico | need not describe our I
deem 1t my duty to speak very
frankly what this government has
done and should seek to do in fulfill-
ment of its obligation to Mexico her.
! self as a friend and neighbor, and =,
American citizens whose lives aud
vital interests are daily affected by
the distressing conditions which now
obtain beyond our southern border.
Those conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
at our very doors. That of course,
makes us more vividly and more con-
stantly conscious of them. and every
/ AiiSNiiiA VI interest ana
/ sympathy lis aroused and quickened
| by them; but that is only one ele-
inent in the determination Of our
duty We are glad to call ourselves
the friends of Mexico, and we shall,
! l nope, have many an occasion, in
happier times as well as in these days
of trouble and confusion, to show that
our friendship Is genuine and disin-
terested, capable of sacrifice and
every generous manifestation.
"Fhe peace, prosperity and contents
ment of Mexico mean more, much
more. to us than merely enlarged
field for our commerce and enterprise.
They mean an enlargement of the field
OF self-gorernment and the realizn-
ton of the hopes and rights of a
tiOn with whose hest aspirations. 50
long suppressed and disappointed. we
deeply sympathize. We shall yet prove
10 the Mexican people that we know
how TO serve them without first think
Ing how we shall serve ourselves.
Whole world Desires Her Peace.
But we are not the only friends
of Mexico. The whole world desires
her peace and progress and the whole
world is interested as never before.
Mexico lies at last where all the
world looks on. Central America is
bout to be touched by the great
routes of the worlds trade and intsr-
course Iunning free from ocean 10
ocean at the isthmus The future
has much in store for Mexico. as for
all the States of Central America;
but the best gifts can come to her
only if she be ready and free to re-
ceive them and to enjoy them lon
orably.
America in particular--Amer4
North and South and upon both con
tinents-waits upon the DEVELOPMENT
of Mexico; and that development can
be sound and lasting only if it be the
product OF a genuine freedom just
and ordered government founded upon
law. Only so can it be peaceful or
fruitful of the benefits of peace.
Mexico has a great and enviable
future before her if only she choose
and attain the paths of honest con-
stitutional government.
erhe present circumstances of the
republic. deeply regret to say. do not
seem to promise even the foundations
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