The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-10-28
MORALITY TO Be
WILSON'S GUIDE
President Announces Foreign
Relations Rule.
DAY OF CONQUEST PAST

Says United States is Not Seeking
Additional Territory and Attacks
Material interests" for Interfering
In Internal Affairs of Other coun.
tries.
Mobile, Ala, Oct 2s-President
Wilson announced to the world that
the governing motive of the United
States in its relationships with the
countries of this hemisphere would
be morality and not expediency."
Il want to take this occasion to
say" he declared, that the United
States will not seek again to secure
one additional foot of territory by
conquest"
The president in a speech before
the Southern Commercial congress de-
livered a yelled attack on what he
termed the material interests" that
had influenced the foreign policy of
some governments in their relations
Win thS udtIOhs Vi Ildttn"aiHtIltds
Though Mr. Wilson did not mention
| Mexico as the afflicted country he de
voted his entire speech to q descrip-
| tion of the degrading influences
/ which foreign concessionaires had
had upon the internal AFFAIRS OF some
of the Latin American countries.
With the Mexican situation upper.
most in the presidents mind at this
time his address was Interpreted a5
| an arraignment or those financial in.
| fluences which, IL has been charged
have secured in some cases recogni.
/ titon for the Huerta government.
The president in his speech declared
that 1t would be the duty of the
| United States to assist the nations OF
| this hemisphere in an emancipation"
from 'the material interests of other
| nations, so that they might enjoy con-
stitutional liberty unrestrained.
| II came" he said, mot to speak of
1 the South, because the South has the
| gift of speaking for herself. j came
here because | would speak of our
l present and prospective relations with
our nelghbors to the south. The fu-
ture is going to be very different for
this hemisphere from the past.
Bound in Ties Of Sympathy.
Those states lying to the south
which have always been our
neighbors will be drawn closer to each
other by common ties of understand
ing Interests do not tie nations to
gether, but sometimes separate them
Sympathy and understanding do bind
them together.
'In the future" he continued, "the
nations to the south OF us will draw
closer and closer to us because o.
these circumstances OF which | an
| speaking We must prove ourselves
their friends and champions on terms
of equality and honor We can't b.
fast friends on any other terms thar
those of equality.
And we must show ourselves
friends by comprehending their In
terests whether they square with oul
interests or not Ii is very perilou'
thing to determine a foreign policy
in terms of material interests. 1t il
; indeed a degrading thing"
One of the features of the enter
tainment of President Wilson was ;
; trip up and down the harbor. AS thu
revenue cutter Window with the presi
dent and party aboard proceeded vi
the harbor a steamer flying the Mex
lean flag was noticed lying near .
British freighter.
No acknowledgment of the pres
ence of the president of the Unitet
| States was shown by the Mexican yes
sci.
The British steamer dipped he
flag as the revenue cutter passed.