The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-09-05

rectly in that matter ourselves with
out denying MeXicans the right to any
revolution at all which disturbed us
and making the emancipation of her
own people await our interest and con
venience
THE people of Mexico have not been
suffered to own their own country or
direct their own institutions. Outsid-
ers, men out Of other nations and with
interests too often alien to their own.
have dictated what their privileges and
opportunities should he and who
should control their land, their lives
and their resources-sOme of them
Americans, pressing for things they
could never have got IN their own
country. The Mexican people are en-
titled to attempt their liberty from
such influences, and so long as / have
anything to do with the action of our
great government l shall do everything
in my power to prevent any one stand
ing in their way. 1t is hard doctrine
only for those who wish to get some
thing for themselves out of Mexico. l
have heard no one who was free from
such influences propose interference by
the United States with the internal
affairs OF Mexico. Certainly no friend
of the Mexican people has proposed it.
The "Unspeakabe Huerta."
"The people Of Mexico are striving
for the rights that are fundamental to
life and happiness-15O 100000 Oppress-
ed men, overburdened women and pitt
full children in virtual bondage in their
own home of fertile lands and mex
haustible treasure. Some of the lead
ers of the revolution may often have
been mistaken and violent and selfish,
but the revolution itself was inevitable
and is right The unspeakable Huerta
betrayed the very comrades he served.
traitorously overthrow the government
of which he was a trusted part, i'm
pudently spoke for the very forces
that had driven his people to the re-
bellion with which he had pretended
to sympathize. The men who over
came him and drove him out repre-
sent at least the fierce passion of re-
construction which lies at the very
heart Of liberty and so long as they
represent, however imperfectly, such a
struggle for deliyerance l am ready to
serve their ends when l can. So long
as the power of recognition rests with
me the government of the United
States will refuse to extend the hand
of welcome to any one who obtains
power in a sister republic by treachery
and violence. No permanency can be
given the affairs of any republic by a
title based upon intrigue and assassi-
nation. Mistakes I have no doubt
made in this perplexing business, but
not in purpose or object"
To Play a Leading Part.
The president declared that we must
be prepared both in resources and in
policy to play our part when Europe's
war is over. There must be just and
settled peace. and the nations of the
world must unite in joint guarantees
that whatever is done to disturb the
whole worlds life must first be tested
in the court Of the whole worlds opin-
ion before it is attempted.
I'VE have created in the federal
: trade commission means of inquiry
and of accommodation in the field of
commerce which ought both to CO
ordinate the enterprises Of our traders
and manufacturers and to remove the
barriers of misunderstanding and of a
too technical Interpretation Of the law.
In the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of OBJ
servation and adjustment which prom
ises to be Immediately serviceable
The trade commission substitutes coun-
sci and accommodation for the harsher
processes of legal restraint and the
tariff commission ought to substitute
facts for prejudices and theories
1--WE can no longer indulge our tfadi.
tional provincialism. We are to play a
leading part in the world drama wheth-
err we wish it or not We shall lend
not borrow; act for ourselves. not imi.
tate or follow; organize and initiate
not peep about merely to see where
we may get in.
1--WE have already formulated and
agreed upon a policy Of law which will
explicitly remove the ban now sunpos
ed TO rest upon cooperation among our
exporters in seeking and securing their
proper place in the markets Of the
world. At home we have put all kinds