The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-09-03

10 90 with the action pi our EIeht
Government shall do everything in
my power to prevent anyone standing
in their way | know that this is hard
for some persons TO understand; but
it is not hard for the plain people OF
the United States to understand. 1t
is hard doctrine only for those who
wish to get something for themselves
out of Mexico There are men, and /
noble women. too. not a few, of our
own people thank Cod whose for
tunes are invested in great properties
in Mexico who yet see the case with
true vision and assess IFS issues with
true American feeling. The rest can
be left for the present out of the
reckoning until this ensaved people
has had it's day OF struggle towards
the light. | have heard no one who
was free from such influences propose
interference by the United states with
the internal affairs of Mexico. Ger
tainly no friend Of the Mexican people
has proposed it.
THE UNSPEAkABLF HrERTA
BETRAYED HIS COMRADES
The people of the United States are
capable OF great sympathies and a
noble pity in dealing with problems
of this kind AS their spokesman and
representative. l have tried to act In
the spirit they would wish me show.
The people Of Mexico ire striving for
the rights that are fundamental to
! life and happ iness-fifteen million OPP
! pressed men, cverhurdened women,
| and pitiful children in virtual bondage
! in their own home of fertile lands and
| ineXhaustihle treasure Some Of the
! leaders Of the revolution may often
/ have been mistaken and violent and
selfish. hut the revolution itself was
/ inc ia hi nd X
able Huerta betrayed the very COM
+radeA h. seFraA, trait4Fe4tsly overthrow
| the government of which he was a
trusted part. impudently spoke for the
very forces that had driven his peo
pie TO the rebellion with which he had
pretended to sympathize The men
who overcame hime and drove him out
| represent at least the fierce passion
of reconstruction which lies at the
very heart Of liberty; and so long as
they represent however imperfectly,
such a struggle fer deiverance. I am
tready to serve their ends when I can.
SO long as the power of recognition
rests with me the Government of the
United States will refuse 10 extend the
hand of welcome 10 any one who OBJ
tains power in a sister republic by
treachery and violence. No perma-
lnency can be given the affairs of any
republic by a title based upon intrigue
land ASA ssination. | declared that to
be the policy of this Administration
within three weeks after | assumed
the presidency. / here again vow it
am more interested in the fortunes
: Of oppressed men and pitiful women
and children than in any property
rights whatever. Mistakes | have no
, doubt made In this perplexing bust
ness, but not in purpose or object.
More is involved than the imme-
date destinies of Mexico and the re
lations of the United States with a
3 distressed and distracted people. All
: America looks on, Test is now being
, made of us whether we be sincere
. lovers of popular liberty or not and
! are indeed to be trusted to respect ma
. tional sovereignty among our weaker
4 neighb ors. We have underta ken these
many years to play big brother to the
r republics of this hemisphere. This is
s the day of our test whether we mean
o or have ever meant, to play that part
V for our own benefit wholly or alsc
, for theirs. Upon the outcome of thai
r test Otis outcome In their minds no
d in ours) depends every relationship o
r the United States with Latin-America
e whether In politics or in commerce and
- enterprise. These are great issues an6
Y lie at the heart Of the gravest tasks
1 of the future tasks Doth economic anG
= political, and very intimately in.
e wrought with many of the most vita
I of the new Issues of the politics o.
the world, The republics of America
have In the last three years beer
$ drawing together in new spirit oil
o accommodation, mutual understand
t ing. and cordial cooperation Much
! Of The politics of the world in the
! years to come will depend upon theil
o relationships with one another. 1t IL
= q barren and provincial statesma nshiI
r that loses sight of such things.
t THE FUTURE rs NOT
!. ONE TO BE AFRAID on
: The future, the immediate future
n will bring us squarely face to fac
l with many great and exacting prob
$ lens which will search us through and
= through whether we be able and read,
a to play the part in the world tina
I we mean to play. 1t will not brins
Y us into their presence slowly, gently
n with ceremonious Introduction. but
n suddenly and at once. the moment the
\ war In Eurore is over. They will be
r new problems. most Of them: many
| will be old problems in a new settinf
s and with new elements which we hav.
g never dealt with or reckoned the force
and meaning of before. They will re
\ quire for their solution new thinking
J. fresh courage and resourcefulness, anC
I in some matters radical reconsidera
I lions of policy. We must be ready Il
e mobilize our resources alike Of brains
@ and of materials,
t 1t Is not a future to be afraid of
: 1t is rather. future to stimulate an.
I excite us to the display of the hes
8 powers that are in us. We may ente
I 1t with confidence when we are sur,
4 that we understand it--and we hav,
g provided ourselves already with tn,
g means OF understanding it.
Look first at what ii will be nee
o essary that the nations of the worl,
f should do to make the days to com
r tolerable and fit to live and work in
g and then look at our part in what Il
I to follow and our own duty of prepa
e ration. For we must be prepared both
= in resources and in policy
@ There must be a just and settled
: peace, and we here In America mus
= contribute the full force of our en-
. thusiasm and of our authority as a ma
a ton to the organization of that peace
l upon worldwide foundations that can.
= not easily be shaken. No nation should