The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-28

any truly American theory. I de- scribed their revolution as incom- plete and asked what would have be- come of our own revolution of 1776- 1789 if some foreign power had be- come tired of the unsettled conditions of our country and had intervened to establish its theory of government in- stead of allowing our fathers to es- tablish our liberties and give to the world the first real free government in history.
 "I then remarked that a revolution is always a grave matter and attend ed by conditions of disorder, that men fighting for freedom and inspired by its great ideals have to battlo against an established order and until they succeed conditions are upset. l said, for instance we say of the Mexican revolutionists that they are not always uniformed soldiers, Washington's ar my as 1t retreated to Valley Forge was scarcely clad, it was unpaid. uncloth- ed and unfed but it persisted through every hardship to it's great mission.
 "I said we complain of Mexico that property rights are not always res pected and said among us to some ex- tent that was no doubt true, as the so-called loyalists who adhered to the cause of King George, even the min- isters of the churches, were driven out and their property devoted to the revolution. I said it is complained that in the present state of affairs Mexico cannot pay her debts, and said nor could we until after the estab- lishment of a stable Government. In 1789 we inaugurated a proper finan- cial system.
 With these promises I urged that a people who had won freedom through marvellous courage and steadfastness in the face of every peril. difficulty and Encouragement should have sympa- thy with any other people struggling for freedom and should apply the Golden Rule to Mexico while she sought to apply principle of our own declaration of independence and alter and establish her government as her ton that he was undoubtedly one of the greatest men who ever lived and that no great event in history ever depended so entirely upon one man as did the American revolution. Of his soldiers said they were the brave founders of our liberties and we must be as brave in maintaining them and as generous in extending the principles they established to struggling peoples everywhere.
 T did not compare Washington's soldiers to Villa or to any Mexican bandits whatever did not say that Washington's soldiers stole anything or that they stole silver out of church. es to buy drink or for any other pur- pose.
 "I did not refer to Washington's soldiers as bad characters or compa- red them with Mexicans in any par ticu1ar; but on the contrary referred to them as different in training. race and ideals from the Mexican people.
 "I did not refer to anybody's char acter> or accuse anybody American or Mexican of wrong doing, to have done so would have been wholly out of keeping with the argument was ma king which was not based on the acts of individuals but upon the necessary difficulty of revolutionary struggle.
 "I cannot believe that anyone will believe me capable of slandering the living or the dead, nor can believe that the story of the dangers enooun- tered, the hardships endured and the steadfast courage shown by our fore fathers in the making of America is other than a tribute to their great ness, a claim upon our admiration and an inspiration to our patriotism"