The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-09-03
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who wishes to know the truth about
it.
The seas were not broad enough
to keep the infection of the conflict
out of our own politics. The pas
sions and intrigues of certain active
groups and combinations of men
amongst us who were born under for
eign flags injected the poison of dis
loyalty into our own most critical af-
fairs, laid violent hands upon many
of our industries, and subjected US
to the shame of divisions of senti-
ment and purpose in which America
was condemned and forgotten. II is
part of the business of this year of
reckoning and settlement to speak
plainly and act with unmistakable
purpose in rebuke of these things,
in order that they may be forever
hereafter impossible. I am the can
didate of a party, but | am above
all things else an American citizen.
displeasure of that small alien ele-
ment amongst US which puts loyalty
to any foreign power before loyalty
to the United States.
While Europe was at war our own
continent, one of our own neighbors,
was shaken by revolution. In that
matter, too, principle was plain and
it was imperative that we should live
up to it if we were to deserve the
! trust of any real partisan of the right
as free men see it. We have pro-
| fessed to believe, and we do believe,
| that the people of small and weak
states have the right to expect TO
be dealt with exactly as the people
of big and powerful states would be.
| We have acted upon that principle
| in dealing with the people of Mex
/ leo.
Our recent pursuit of bandits into
| Mexican territory was no violation of
that principle. We ventured to enter
Mexican territory only because there
were no military forces in Mexico
that could protect our border from
| hostile attack and our own people
from violence, and we have commit
ted there no single act of hostility
or interference even with the SOW
ereign authority of the Republic of
| Mexico herself. 1t was a plain case
of the violation of our own sovereign
ty which could not wait to be vindi-
Gated by damages and for which there
was no other remedy. The authori-
ties of Mexico were powerless to pre-
vent it.
Many serious wrongs against the
property, many irreparable wrongs
against the persons of Americans
have been committed within the ter
ritory of Mexico herself during this
confused revolution, wrongs which
could not be effectualfy checked sc
long as there was no constituted
power in Mexico which was in a pc.
sition to check them. We could not
act directly in that matter ourselves
without denying Mexicans the right
to any revolution at all which dis.
turbed US and making the emancipa
. ton of her own people await our owr
interest and convenience.
For it is their emancipation thai
they are seeking blindly, it may be
and as yet Intellectually, but with
} profound and passionate purpose ant
within their unquestionable right, ap
| ply what true American principle
you will-any principle that an Amer
lean would publicly avow. The PEG
pie of Mexico have not been suffered
to own their own their own countr!
or direct their own institutions. Out
siders, men out of other nations an,
with interests too often alien to Their
] own, have dictated what their priv