Arizona republican., 1916-07-01
MAKES IT PLAIN OWN IDEAS MAY
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of formulating my judgments before they are formed and yet l am tempted when I stand face to face with you to take off all guard and merely expose myself to you as the fallible human being that l am.
 MT Colby said something that was among the few things l had forecasted to say myself He said that there are some things it is really useless to de- bate because they go as a matter of course. "Of course, it is our duty to prepare this nation to take care of it's honor and of its institutions. Why debate any part of that, except the detail, except the plan itself which is always debatable?
 Of course, it is the duty of the gov ernment which it will never overlook to defend the territory and people of this country. It goes without saying that it is the duty of the administra- tion to have constantly in mind with the utmost sensitiyeness every point of ! national honor.
 But gentlemen, after you have said and accepted these obvious things your program of action is still to be formed ! When will you act, and how will you act?
 The easiest thing is to strike. The ] brutal thing is the impulsive thing. No man has to think before he takes az | gressive action but before a man really ! conserves the honor by realizing the 1 ideals of the nation he has to think 1 exactly what he win do and how he will ido it.
 Do you think the glory of America would be enhanced by a war of con- quest in Mexico? Do you think that any act of violence by a powerful na- tion like this against weak and de- structive neighbor would reflect dis tinction upon the annals of the United States?
 Do you think that it is our duty to carry self defense to point of dicta- tion into the affairs of another people? The ideals of America are written plain upon every page of American his tory.
 "I want you to know how fully I realize whose servant l am. l do not own the government of the United States even for the time being. l have no right in the use of it to express my own passions. l have no right to ex- press my own ambitions for the devel- opment of America, if those ambitions are not coincident with the ambitions of the nation itself
 And I have constantly to remind myself that l am not a servant of those who wish to enhance the value of their Mexican investments-that 1 am the servant of the rank and file of the people of the United States.
 T get a great many letters, my fel- low citizens, from important and in- fluential men in this country, but I get a great many other letters. I get let ters from unknown men, from humble women, from people whose names have never been heard and never will be re- corded and there is but one phrase in all of these letters:
 Mir. President, do not allow any body to persuade you that the people of this country want war with any body
 T got off a train yesterday and as was bidding goodbye to the engi- neer, he said in an understone MT President, keep out of Mexico AnC if one man has said that to me thousand have said it to me as I have moved about the country
 If l have opportunity to engag, them further in conversation they say Of course, we know that you canno govern the circumstances of the cas, altogether and it may be necessary but for Gods sake do not do it un less it is necessary.
 "I am for the time being the spokes man of such people, gentlemen. I hav not read history without observing that the greatest forces in the work and the only permanent forces ar the moral forces. I have the evidenc of very competent witness, namel. the first Napoleon, who said that a he looked back in the last days o his life so much as he knew of huma1 history, he had to record the judgmen that force had never accomplished any thing that was permanent.
 Force will not accomplish any thing that is permanent, I venture t say in the great struggle which is go ing on on the other side of the ses The permanent things will be accom- plished afterward when the opinio of mankind is brought to bear upo the issues and the only thing tha will hold the world steady is this sam silent insistent, all-powerfuF opinio of mankind.
 Force can sometimes hold thing steady until opinion has time to form but no force that was ever exerte except'in response to that opinion, Wa ever conquering and predominant force.
 7. T think the sentence in America history that l myself am proudest o is that in the introductory sentence of the Declaration of Independence where the writers say that due re spect for the opinion of mankind de kmands that they state the reasons fo what they are about to do, I ventur to say. that a decent respect for tn opinions of mankind demanded tha those who started the present Euro pean war, should have stated thei reasons, but, they did not pay an heed to the opinion of mankind an the reckoning will come when the set