The Detroit times., 1913-10-28
United States Will Never Again
Seek Expansion Through Con-.
quest or Allow Foreign Ag-
gressiOn in America
CANAL MEANS END OF
FOREIGN CONTROL
Big Ditch Makes Rule of Con.
cessiOnaires South of Isthmus
a Thing of the Past
WOODROW WILSON

MOBILE, Ala, Oct. 27.-"The Unit
ed States will never seek another foo
Of territory by conquest, and she mus,
sec to II that no other nation does Il
on this hemisphere"
This fiat declaration OF American
policy was made here this afternoon
by President Woodrow Wilson. Il
was voiced when the president, open
ng the Southern Commercial congress
hailed the compile ION or the Panams
canal as the emancipation from for
elgn control Of the Latin-Americar
states"
And we ought to be frst," he add
ed, in assisting in their emancipa
tiOn. They have been driven to harc
bargains, but In the future We vii
draw closer and closer to them or
terms Of friendship, and equality. fol
that Is the only bond possible between
US. Any other IL not only degrading
to them, but shows US narrow.
We stand for the greatest ideals
human rights. constitutional liberties
and freedom for all.
II want to say here, gentlemen, that
the United States will never seek an
other foot Of territory by conquest
and she must see to II that no other
nation does it on this hemisphere.
The American spirit must be the
guardianship of true constitutional lib
erty.
America was created TO carry out
such q program. 1t was not made be-
cause 1t was rich. It sounds In the
ears Of all not as the land Of oppor'
tunity. but the land Of individual lib
erty.
we can never be poor while we
love liberty. and 80 In emphasizing
the points which must unite us to
Latin-America say we prove our
selves untrue II We turn from the prin
ciple that morality. and not expedi
ENJOY, Is our goal. In spite OF things
we are trying to correct, the 18th
century has brought US a long way
up the hill, toward light and Justice
"You hear of concessions to for
eigners in South America. You ds
not hear of that in North America
We do not grant them; but until nov
South America has been forced to a.
this because It has been out of th'
line of commerce. But the cana
emancipates them from the danger
OF foreign control"
Mobile. fag-draped and historical
gave President Wilson his warmes'
| welcome since his election today
From the moment he stepped from
his private car into the automobile
which carried him to breakfast at the
Battle house, and later to the reve
nue. cutter Winona, where he took 9
trip up the Mobile river and out into
Mobile bay, his appearance was the
signals for q wild outburst OF yeiis
horn footing and band playing.
All along the route of the journey
he rolled between dense lines Of peo
ple who overflowed into alleys, o.
hung from windows, waving hats, um
brelias and flags. Silk-hatted delega
ftions, corps of fraternal organizations
and school children massed the line
of way and bade the first southern
president since the Civil war wei
come home"
The president was introduced to tn
convention by Governor O'Neal. o.
Alabama. O'Neal predicted that WITH
the completion of the canal, the south
would wrest from the east Its su
premacy as a great national shipping
oaat