Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-09-03

| IOllO"S.
| Gentlemen Of the Congress:
1t Is clearly my duty to lay before
you, very fully and without reserVa-
ton, the facts concerning our pres
Mexico. The deplorable posture Of
affairs in Mexico, l need not de-
scribe, but l deem it my duty to
speak very frankly of what this gov
| ernment has done and shall seek to
| do in fulfillment Of it's obligation to
Mexico herself, as a friend and neigh
| Dor, and to American citizens whose
| lives and vital interests are daily af
fected by the distressing conditions
which now obtain beyond our south
ern 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
| constantly conscious of them, and
every instinct of neighborly interest
and sympathy is aroused and quick
ened by them; but there is only one
element in the determination Of our
duty. We are glad to call ourselves
the friends of Mexico, and we shall.
| hope, have many an occasion in
happier times as we'll as in these
days Of trouble and confusion, to
show that our friendship is genuine
and disinterested, capable Of sacri-
fee and every generous manifesto
ton.
Peace I'm Mexico Means Much.
The peace, prosperity and content
ment of Mexico means more, much
field for our commerce and enter
prise They mean an enlargement of
the field Of self-government and the
realization 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 ct last where ali the
world looks on. Central America is
about to be touched by the great
routes Of the worlds trade and In
te~course running free from ocean to
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 receive
them and to enjoy them hcnorably.
America Waits on Development.
America, in particular-America
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 peace
full or fruitful Of the benefits Of
peace. Mexico has a great and envi-
able future before her, if only she
choose and attain the paths Of hon
est constitutional government.
The present circumstances Of the
republic, ! deeply regret to say, do
not seem to promise even the foun-
dations Of such a peace. We have
waited many months, months full Of
peril and anxiety, for the condition
there to improve, and they have not
improved. They have grown worse
rather. The territory in some sort
controlled by the provisional authori-
ties at Mexico City has grown small
er, not larger; the prospect Of the
pacification Of the country, even by
arms, has seemed to grow more and
more remote; and it's pacification by
the authorities at the capital is evil
dent tly impossible by any other means
than force.
Huerta Failed to Make Good.
Difficulties more and more entan-
gle those who claim to constitute the
legitimate government Of the repub
lie. They have not made good their
claim in fact. Their successes in the
field have proved only temporary.
War and disorder, devastation and
confusion seem to threaten to be-
come the settled fortune of the dis
tracted country.
AS friends we could wait no Ion
ger for a solution which every week