South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-01-09

I want him 10 come in wbera H. *
warm. ] want him TO come i'm where
/ there is a lot of good societ, good
| cOmpanionship, where there arc eraat
| emotions. That is what / miss in the
| republican party; they do not seem 10
\ have any great emotions The,- seem
! TO think lot Of things. old things.
/ but they do not seem To have any
enthusiasm about anything
Now there is one thing I have cot
a great enthusiasm about. I might al
most say a reckless enthusiast, and
that is human liberty. The go1,ernor
has just now spoken about watchful
| waiting in Mexico. ] want to saw q
word about Mexico. or not So much
! about Mexico as about our attitude to-
wards Mexico. L hold it as a funda-
mental principle and so do you. that
every people has the right TO de-
termine its own form of government.
and until this recent revolution in
! Mexico, until the end of the Diaz reign.
| so per cent of the people Of Mexico
never had a look in in determining
who should be their governors or
what their government should be.
For the Eighty Per Cent.
''Now I am for the so per cent. 1t is
none of my business and it is none
of your business how long they take
| in determining it. 1t is mono of my
| business and it is none of yours how
| they go about the business. The coun-
| try is theirs. The government is
| theirs. The liberty, if they can get it,
and God speed them in getting it. is
theirs. And so far as my influence
shall interfere with them. That is
what | mean by a great emoticu a
great emotion Of sympathy.
DO you suppose that the American
people are ever going to count a
small amount of material benefit and
advantage to Mexico? I say no. In
| proportion to my strength is my pride
in Withholding that strength from the
oppression Of another people, and 1
know when l speak these things (not
merely from the generous response
with which they have just met from
you but from my long time knOwl-
edge of the American people, that it
is the sentiment of the American peo-
pie.
With all due respect to editors OF
great newspapers 1 have TO say TO
| them that l never take my opinion
of the American people from their
editorials. So that when some great
dailies not very far from where / am
temporarily residing Numbered with
rising scOrn at 'watchful waiting,
| Woodrow Wilson sat back in his chair
and chuckled knowing that he laughs
/ best who laughs last; knowing, in
short, what were the temper and
| principles of the American people If
did not at least think l knew, I
would emigrate, because I would not
be satisfied to stay where l am. There
may come time when the American
people will have to judge whether 1
know what l am talking about or not
| But for at least two years more I
am free to think that l do with a
great comfort in immunity in the
time being.
Safely Democratic.
And it is by the way a very COM
fOrting thought that the next con-
gress of the United States is going to
be very safely democratic and that,
therefore, we can all together feel
as much confidence as Jackson did,
that we know what we are about.
You know Jackson used to think that
everybody who disagreed with him
was an enemy of the country. / have
never got quite that far in my thought,
but 1 have ventured to think that
they did not know what they were
talking about, knowing that my fell
low democrats expected me to live
up to the full stature of Jacksonion
democracy.
so. 1 feel, my friends, in a very
confident mood today. l feel conf
dent that we do know the spirit Of
the American people, that we do know
the program of betterment which 1t
will be necessary for us to under
take that we do have a very rea-
sonable confidence in the support Of
the American people. / have been
talking with business men recently
about the present state of mind of
American business. There is moth
ing the matter of American business
a nf I
chamber of commerce here in In
dianapolis is working now upon the
motto, If you are going to buy it, buy
1t now That is a perfectly safe
maximum TO act on.
Il never was in business and there
fore I have none of the prejudices of
business. / have looked on and tried
to see what the interests of the coun-
try were in business and I have taken
| counsel with men who did know and
! their counsel is uniform; all that is
needed in America now is to believe
| in the future, and I can assure you
as one of those who speak for the
democratic party that it is perfectly
safe to believe in the future. We are
so much the friends of business that
we were for a little time the enemies
of those who were trying 10 control
| business. 1 say for a little time. be
cause we are now reconciled to them
4 AnCS udNG 3 dNAOuclg dQilllllCu lLldl
we had a right to do what we did do
and they have very handsomely said
/ that they were going 10 play the
game.
Are Sound at Heart
81 believe, ! always have believed,
| that American business men were alb
solutely sound at heart, but men i'm
mersed in business do a lot of things
| that opportunity offers 10 do which
in other circumstances they would not
/ do, and 1 have thought all along that
| all that was necessary to do was to
( call their attention sharply to the
kind of reforms in business which
were necessary and that they would
| acquieSce. and L believe they have
| heartily acquiesced. There is all the
more reason for that great and small
that we should be confident in the
| future.
Look abroad upon the troubled
war, only America at peace Among
all the great powers Of the world,
| only America saving her power for
| her own people, only America using
/ her great character and her great