River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-09-04


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government should take. Concluding
his address the president predicted
that the steady pressure of moral
force will before many days break the
barriers of pride and prejudice down
and we shall triumph as Mexico's
friends sooner than we could triumph
as her enemies"
Gamboa's Address Not Read.
Senior Gamboa's note, which was
appended to the presidents address
as an exhibit, was not read by the
president, but furnished to congress
as printed document.
Mrs. Wilson and her daughters and
Secretary Bryan had taken places in
the executive gallery. Others mem
bers of the cabinet had taken places
on the floor. Every head in the cham
Der had been bowed and the solemn
ity of the occasion was impressive as
the house chaplain, Rev. Henry d.
Couden, in his opening prayer, said:
Rule Thou in the hearts of our rul-
ers and sway the minds of these thy
servants, that as 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 a deafening volley of ap-
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
121 p. m. Another great roar of ap-
plause broke out. All those in the gal
leries 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.
Text of Presidents Message.
The presidents message follows:
1T is clearly my duty to lay before
you very fully and without reservation
the facts concerning our present rela-
tions with the republic of Mexico.
The deplorable posture of affairs in
Mexico | need not describe, but deem
it my duty to speak very frankly of
what this government has done and
should seek to do in fulfillment Of it's
obligation to Mexico herself as a
friend and neighbor and to American
citizens whose lives and vital inter
ests are daily affected by the distress
ing conditions which now obtain be-
You'd our Southern border.
CHOSE conditions touch us very
nearly. Not merely because they lie
at our very doors. That, OF course,
makes us more wildly and more con-
stantly conscious of them, and every
instinct of neighborly interest and
sympathy is aroused and quickened by
them; but that is only one element in
the determination of our duty. We
are glad to call ourselves the friends
of Mexico and we shall, 1 hope, have
many an occasion in happier time as
we'll as in these days of trouble and
is genuine and disinterested, capable
of sacrifice and every generous mani
festation.
Sympathize With Mexico.
"The peace, prosperity and content
ment of Mexico mean more, much
more, to us than merely an enlarged
field for our commerce and enterprise.
They mean an enlargement of the
field of self-government and the real
ization of the hopes and rights of a
nation with whose best aspirations so
long suppressed and disappointed we
deeply sympathiZe. We shall yet
prove to the Mexican people that we
know how to serve them without first
thinking how we shall serve ourselves.
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 about to
be touched by the great routes of the
worlds trade and intercourse running
free from ocean to ocean at the 18TH
mus. 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 receive them and to en-
joy them honorably. America in par
ticular-American north and south
and upon both continents-waits upon
the development of Mexico; and that
development can be sound and lasting
only if it be the product of a genuine
freedom, a just and ordered govern
ment, founded upon law. Only so can
it be peaceful or fruitful of the bene-
fits of peace. Mexico has a great
and enviable future before her if only