La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1916-07-01

read. We make common cause in
the interest OF national honor. Of
national security. Of national effici-
ency. We unite in the demand for
an undivided and unwavering 10y
atty to our country, for whole
hearted. patriotic devotion oyerrid-
ing all racial differences.
We want revival OF the Ameri-
can spirit-a nation restored. We
insist upon prompt and adequate
provision for the common defense:
upon the steadfast maintenance OF
all the rights OF our citizens and up
on the integrity OF International law.
The most serious difficulties the
present administration has encoun-
tered have been due to its own weak
ness and incertitude. ! am profound
ly confident that by prompt and de-
cisiye action which existing condi-
lions manifestly called for, the Luisi-
tanis tragedy would have been pre-
vented
1T was officially stated by the.
Secretary OF State in the Mexican
note OF June 90. 1916. that for three
years the Mexican republic has been
torn with civil strife; the lives OF
Americans and other aliens have
| been sacrificed; vast properties de-
] y.Inp.I he AnarS.up a.. pFt,I and nm
terprise have been destroyed or rem
dered non-produCtiye. bandits have
| been permitted to roam at will
through territory contiguous to the
United States and to seize, without
| punishment, the property OF Ameri-
cans, while the lives OF citizens OF
the United States who vcntured TO
remain in Mexican territory or to re-
turn there TO protect interests have
been taken, In some cases barbarous-
ly taken, and the murderers have
neither been apprehended nor were
they brought to Justice
What AN indictment by the ado
ministration OF its Mexican policy,
And still We are unprepared
That unpreparedness In the midst
Of perils. and after the experience Of
three years. is demonstration OF an
objectionable neglect for which the
administration Is responsible
The government nov has and
must have most emphatically the un-
stinted and patriotic support Of ev-
cry citizen In the existing emergency.
But uuqucstioning. loyal and patrl-
otto support OF the government is
one thing. approval OF the fatuous
course which the administration has
I followed Is quite another cannot
In this message adequately review
Z that course. that I shall do later.
no intelligent man is deceived bv
the temporary prosperity due 10 alb
normal conditions. aud no one can
fail to appreciate the gravity Of tho
I problems with which We shall br
faced when the war ends W. are
/ alive 10 the imperative necessity ~
assuring the basis OF honest bushes.
! am co. deep sympathy with the effor,
TO improve the conditions Of labor
[ prevent exploitation: TO Safeguard
the future Of the nation by protect
ing our women and children. ! be-
li"Yo In workmen's compensation
laws IN wise conservation Of our
national Resources 80 that they NAV
be protected. developed and used 10
the utmost public advantage Hn'
underlying every endsavor to pro
mote social Justice is the indIspensf.
BILE condition that there shall be
stable foundation for honorable en-
terprise American industry must
have proper protection n labor Is rD
be- guarded We must rescue
our instrumentalitles OF interstate
and foreign commerce. our transpor.
tation facilities from uncertainty and
confusion We must show that We
know how to protect the public with.
out destroying or crippllng our pro.
duetiye energies.
TO what agency shall We look for
the essential constructive program on
which our security and prosperity
must depend II l. vain 10 expect {,
from the democratic party. That
party has not the national outlook
Both its traditions and dominating
influences are fatal handbags. I.
have no sectional word TO utter. We
are TO elect president Of the whole
country. no, Of part The south
as well ~ the north. east and west
viii be the gamers from our endeay.
ors. Bu, II is sober truth a. I see Il,
that as ~e go forward Ne mus, make
the republican party the instrument,