Bisbee daily review., 1916-07-01

l right to express my own ambitions , for the development of America, if 1 those ambitions are not coincident with the ambitions of the nation it. : self.
 Servant to One Master Only. | And. l have constantly to remind myself that I am not a servant of those whose wish Jo enhance the value of their Mexican investments but that am the servant Of the rank and file of the people of the United States.
 l '.i get great many letters, my fel low citizens. from important and in- fluential men in this country. but get a great many other letters. I get letters from unknown men. from humble women. from people whose names have never been heard and never will be recorded and there is but one phrase in all of these letters: MT. President do not allow any | body to persuade you that the people of this country want war with any , body
 Many Say Stay Out. ''I got off a train yesterday and was bidding good bye to the engineer, he said in an undertone, MT Presi- dent, keep out of Mexico and if one man has said that to me a thousand ! have said it to me as l have moved I about the country.
 "circumstances Alter Cases"
 "If I have opportunity to engage them further in conversation. they : say: 'Of course, we know that you cannot govern the circumstances of ! the case altogether but for Gods sake do not do it unless it is necessary.
 ''I am for the time being the spokes- man of such people, gentlemen. I have not read history without observ | ing that the greatest forces in the world and the only permanent forces are the moral forces. We have the evidence of very competent witness. namely the first Napoleon, who said that as he looked back in the last days of his life upon so much as he knew of human history, he had to rec ord the judgment that force had never accomplished anything that was per manent.
 Force, Temporary corrector.
 Force will not accomplish any ching that is permanent. I venture to say, in the great struggle which is going on 1n the other side of the sea. The permanent things will be accomplished afterward when the opinion of mankind is brought to bear upon the issues, and the only |, hal hn xtaN efn dU is this same silent. insistent all- powerful opinion of mankind.
 Force can some times hold things steady until opinion has time to form, but no force that was ever exerted except in response to that opinion was ever a conquering and predOmin- ate feature.
 ''I think the sentence in American history that I myself am proudest of it that in that introductory sentence of the Declaration Of Independence, where the writers say that aIdue re spect for the opinion of mankind de mands that they state the reasons for what they are about to do.
 Greater Things than Election.
 50 gentlemen. I am willing, no matter what may be the present be- lief to play for the verdict of man. kind Personally. it will be matter of indifference to me what the yer dict on the seventh of November Is, provided I feel any degree of con fidence that when a later jury sits, I shall get their judgment in my favor. Not my favor persOnally-what difference does that make?-But in my favor as an Lonest and cOnscienti- ous spokesman of a great nation. &
 There are some gentlemen who are under the delusion that the power of a nation comes from the top. It does not. It comes from the bottom.
 Masses, True Government.
 Power and virtue of the tree does not come from the blossoms and the fruit down into the roots, but it comes from the roots in the obscure pas sages of the earth. where the power is derived which displays its blos- sons and the fruit: and I know that among the silent speechless masses of the American people is slowly con- ing up that say or moral purpose and love of justice and reverence for humanity. which constitutes the only virtue and distinction of the Ameri- can people.