The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-10-06
VESTED INTERESTS WANT
MEXICAN INTERVENTION
President Wilson Says He Knows Ex-
actly What They Want, for They
Have Talked to Him

Unfortunately, however, one thing
has become reasonably clear, my fell
low-citizens, and it is very serious
thing, indeed One thing has become
evident, not because it was explicitly
stated, for nothing has been explicit
ly stated, but because it is unmistak-
ably implicit in almost everything
that has been said. Am / not right
that we must draw the conclusion
that if the Republican party is put in
power at the next election our foreign
policy will be radically changed? |
cannot draw any other inference. All
our present foreign policy is wrong,
they say, and if it is wrong and they
are men of conscience, they must
change it, and if they are goin to
change it what direction are they go
ing to change it?
"There is only one choice as against
peace and that is war. Some of the
supporters of that party, very great
body of the supporters of that party,
utspokenly declare that they want
war, so that the certain prospect of
success of the Republican party is
that we shall be drawn in one form or
another in the ENVIRONMENTS of the
European war, and that to the south
of us the force of the United States
will be used to produce in Mexico the
kind of law and order which some
American investors in Mexico cOnsid-
er most to their advantage.
Vested interests for War in Mexico.
81 do not find that anybody else's
counsel is taken in respect of the pol
icy that this country should pursue
with regard to Mexico, except those
who have hitherto acted as the coun-
sellers for the vested interests in Mex
leo. The whole country is acquainted
with the gentlemen who have been
consulted. There is no concealment
even by themselves, whose attorneys
they are. They have talked to me. |
know exactly what they want. i have
declined TO give it to them and now
they are going where they think they
can get it, and there is every indica-
ton on the surface, at any rate, that
their calculation is well founded.
Republican Carping Hampers Hand
ling Foreign Relations.
"There is a more serious aspect ev-
en- than that. There is an immediate
result of this thing, my fellow-citi-
zens. From this time until the 7th of
November it is going to be practical
ly impossible for the present admins.
tration to handle any critical matter
concerning our foreign relations, be-
cause all foreign statesmen are wait
ing to see which way the election
goes, and in the meantime, they know
that settlements will not be cOnclu.
sive.
"The conference, which is being hello
with regard to Mexican Alters, is en-
barrassed every day by the apparent
evidence which is being produced that
hostility to Mexico is being traded up
on by one of the great political par
ties. These gentlemen may reconcile
these influences with patriotic pur-
pose, but it is difficult for all of us to
do so. And the one thing | want to
lay emphasis upon in this connection
is this: That a great, Fundamental
choice with regard to our foreign re-
lationships is to be made on the 18th
of November. Some young men ought
to be interested in that, some men who
want to see the future cleared Of the
passion which governs the present
ought to be interested in that.
"Men who love to see great
peaceful force expanded by America
for the service of the world ought to
be interested in that.
singular, isn't it, that that should
have been the only thing disclosed by
the opposition. But l suspect that
they are well enough content with
many of the things that have been
done in domestic legislation, provided
they can get in and control them"