The broad ax., 1916-09-16

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 OF
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 be 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
great government 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. /
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 "Unspeakable Huerta!"
"The peorle of Mexico are striving
for the rights that are fundamental to
life and happiness-15, 100000 Cypress
ed men, Overburdened women and pitt
full children in virtual bondage in their
e e.
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,
traitorOusiy overthrow the government
Of which he was a trusted part, i'm
pudcntly spoke for the very forces
that had driven his people to the re-
belliOn with which he had pretended
to SymrathiZe. 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 q
struggle for deliverance am ready to
serve their ends when can. So long
rs he power of recognition rests with
ne the government of the United
States will refuse to extend the hand
of welcome to any one who obtains
power in Il 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 1 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.
1--WE have created in the federal
trade commission a 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 he 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 p:ciudices and theories.
1--WE can 10 longer indulge our tradi-
tional prOvincialism. We are to play q
leading part i'm 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.
eve have already formulated and
agreed upon policy of law which will
iNhONC lhC Doh hO" SuppOS-
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
Of unfair competition under the ban
and penalty OF the law. We have
barred monopoly. We ought both to
husband and to develop our natural re-
sources, our mines. our forests, our
water power.
1--WE must hearten and quicken the
spirit and efficiency of labor through
ont our whole industrial system by
everywhere and in all occupations do
ing Justice TO the laborer. not only by
paying a living wage. but also by max
ing all the conditions that surround Ia
Dor what they ought to be. We must
coordinate the railway systems of the
country for national use and must IA
cilitate and promote their development
with view 70 that coordination and
TO their better adaptation as a whole
to the life and trade and defense of