West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-09-07


putting the fedenl department OF In.
Dor at tho disposafof the workingman
when In search Of work.
I'VE havs Effected the emancipa don
Of the children OF the country by re-
heasing Thorn from hurtful labor. We
have instituted system OF national
AID IN the building Of highroads such ns
tho country has been feeling after for
o century. We have sought to euunlize
taxation by means OF an equitable In
como tai We have taken the steps
that ought TO havo been taken at the
outset TO open up the resources Of
Alaska. We have provided for nation
III defense upon a scale never before
seriously proposed upon the responsi.
oflfty OF an entire political party. We
havo driven the tariff lobby from cover
ana obliged It to substitute solid argu-
mont for private influence.
A Record Of Promises kept.
This extraordinary recital must
sound like n platform, list OF san.
guine promises. but IL r. not. II IL n
record OF promises mnde four years ago
and now actually redeemed I'm con-
strucuve legislation. We have I'm four
years come very near to carrying out
the platform OF the Progressive party
as well as our own. for we also are
progressives."
This program, Mr.. Wilson declared,
was resisted Mt every step by interests
which the Republican party had fos-
tered at the expense OF the country, In
terests which had fought the reform
OF the banking and currency system
and which Were now planning for the
amendment OF the federal reserve act
by the concentration OF control In a
single bank which the "old familiar
group OF bankers" can keep under their
eye and direction. But while the big
men" who used TO write tho tariffs and
command the assistance OF the treas
ury have been hostile-all but q few
with vision-tho average business man
knows that he has been delivered I'M
less the party that consulted only tho
"big men" should return TO power
They still select It's candidates and die
tate its policy, he said.
Foreign Affairs
Concerning foreign affairs, we have
been neutral because Il was the tract
tional policy OF the United States to
stand aloof from European politics,
Mr.. Wilson declared. Property rights
Of our citizens can be indicated by
claims for damages, but the funda-
mental rights Of humanity cannot be-
THE loss OF life IL irreparable. Nei-
ther can direct violations OF nations
sovereignty await vindication In suits
for damages. The nation that violates
these essential rights must expect to
be checked and called 10 account by
direct challenge and resistance. II at
once makes the quarrel In part our
own. These are plain principles, and
We have never lost sight OF them or de-
parted from them. The passions and
intrigues Of certain active groups and
combinations of men among us who
were born under foreign flags injected
the poison Of disloyalty into our own
most critical affairs, laid violent hands
upon many of our industries and sub
tected us to the shame OF divisions OF
sentiment and purpose In which Amer
ica was condemned and forgotten. 1t
Is part OF the business Of this year Of
reckoning and settlement TO speak
plainly and act with unmistakable pur-
pose In rebuke Of these things In order
that they may be forever hereafter I'm
possible. am the candidate OF a par
ty, but I am above all things else an
American citizen. / neither seek the
favor nor fear the displeasure of that
small alien element among US which
puts loyalty to any foreign power be
fore loyalty to tho United States"
The Mexican Trouble.
CONCERNING Mexico the president stat
ed that We believed that small and
weak states have the right 10 expect to
be dealt with exactly as big and pow
erful states would be. Our recent pur-
suit 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
Many serious wrongs against theprop-
erty. many irreparaoie wrongs against
the persons OF Americans have been
committed within the territory of
Mexico herself during this confused
revolution, but we could not act d.
fectiy n that matter ourselves With.
out denying Aexicans the right 10 any
revolution at all which disturbed us
ma be
own people await our interest and con-
venience.
The people OF Mexico have not been
suffered TO own their own country or
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 10 attempt their liberty from
such Influences. and 20 long as I have
anything 20 do with the action OF our
great government shall do everything
In my power 90 prevent any one stand
Ing Ia their way. u IL hard doctrine
only for those who wish 10 get some-
thing for Themselves out Of Mexico. I
have heard 10 one who was free from
Tuch influences propose interference By
The United states with the Internal
affairs Of Mexico. Certainly no friend
Of the Mexican people has proposed IL
The SUnspssksbis Hvsrea-s
The people Of Mexico are striving
for The rights that are fundamental %
life sDd happiness-i5yO 10000 oppress-