The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-18
VISIT PRESIDENT cARBAJAL.
Diplomatic Corps in Mexico City Present
Formal Address.

Mexico City, July ls.-The members
of the diplomatic corps greeted Fran
cisco Carbajal, the new president OF Mex
leo. in the national palace yesterday,
Bernardo De Cologan y Cologan, the
Spanish minister, acting as dean OF the
corps. read the following address:
eve have come, Mr.. President, to-day
to the national palace as the representa-
tives OF the foreign nations, in whose
names have the high honor Of address
ing you, with the grateful impression
and consoling hope that Mexico is az
last approaching that peace which is so
earnestly desired and which, too, is so
indispensable, and we hope it may be
given to us soon to witness the cordial
embrace OF brethren amid unbonnded
Joy, not unmixed with grief for those
who have perished and with solicitude to
staunch the country's wounds and to
pour into them the saving balm OF con-
cord and charity.
"You have come. Mr.. President, TO this
high post in a difficult moment, but we
feel sure that difficulties do not daunt
you. You have laid down the highest
post in the judiciary, which You attained
at an early age, your merits making up
for your youth, and If in the supreme
court YOU did your utmost to safeguard
your fellow citizens and all the inhabi-
tants of the republic. in the enjoyment
of the constitutional guarantees, you will
not assuredly now, or as long as you
have the honor of occupying the supreme
magistracy of the country, omit any
honest endeayor or any sincere effort to
put an end at the earliest possible mo-
ment to the griefs and sorrows of this
beautiful land, so that Mexico, entering
once for all on the path leading to nor
NAL and lawful conditions, may occupy
in her upward and onward march the
prominent place which for so many rea-
sons she is entitled to among the nations
of this continent.
"Such. Mr.. President, are our fervent
and most cordial dlsires."
The address of the Spanish minister
was approved beforehand by the diplo-
matte corps so that there might be no
question as to the extent of recognition
which it implied In reply the president
said:
81 am truly gratifed by this opportu-
nifty of meeting your excellencies in my
capacity as chief of state. i desire first
of all to offer you testimony of my high
est esteem together with my respects to
the governments which you so worthily
represent in this republic.
Il have heard with profound satisfac-
tion the generous desires which YOU ex-
press for the re-establishment of peace
and the consequent union of all Mexi-
cans, and you may rest assured that /
shall omit no effort to realize that pa
triotic purpose, which is the only reason
/ had for abandoning the labors of the
judiciary and assuming the responsible
tiles of the position which ! now oc-
cupy.
Whatever NAV be the result Of my
efforts / desire TO declare that | am
not guided by any interested motive and
that my personality will in no case be
an obstacle TO the realization Of the task
of concord 10 which ! have set my hand
and which is so necessary to my eoun-
try in these difficult moments. /, in
my turn. express my desire for the pros
perity.'