Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-09-07

Mexican territory only because there
were no military forces in Mexico that
could protect our border from hostile
attack and our own people from VIC
lence, and we have committed there
no single act of hostility or interfer-
ence even with the sovereign authority
of the republic of Mexico herself.
| Many serious wrongs against the
property, many irreparable wrongs
against the persons, of Americans have
been committed within the territory of
Mexico herself during this confused
revolution, wrongs which could not be
effectually checked so long as there
was no constituted power In Mexico
which was in position to cheek them.
We could not act directly in that mat
ter ourselves without denying Next
cans the right to any revolution at all
which disturbed us and making the
emancipation of her own people await
our own interest and convenience.
Problems Of Near Future.
The future, the immediate future,
will bring us squarely face to face with
many great and eXacting problems
which will search us through and
through whether we be able and ready
to play the part in the world that we
mean to play.
There must be a just and settled
peace, and we here In America must
contribute the full force of our en-
thusasm and of our authority as n
nation to the organization of that
peace upon worldwide foundations
that cannot easily be shaken. No ma
ton should be forced to take sides In
any quarrel in which its own honor
and integrity and the fortunes of its
own people are not involved; but no
nation can any longer remain neutral
as against any willful disturbance of
the peace of the world.
One of the contributions we must
make to the worlds peace is this:
We must see to it that the people in
our insular possessions are treated
in their own lands as we would treat
them here, and make the rule of the
United States mean the same thing
everywhere-the same justice, the
same consideration for the essential
rights of men.
Besides contributing our ungrudg-
ing moral and practical support to the
establishment of peace throughout the
world we must actively and intelli-
gently prepare ourselves to do our full
service in the trade and industry
which are to sustain and develop the
life of the nations in the days to come.
We have already been provident in
this great matter and supplied our
selves with the instrumentalities OF
prompt adjustment. We have created,
in the federal trade commission,
means of inquiry and of accommoda-
ton in the field of commerce which
ought both to coordinate the enter
prises of our traders and manufac-
turers and to remove the barriers OF
misunderstanding and of too tech
nical Interpretation of the law. In
the new tariff commission we have
added another instrumentality of OBJ
servatiOn and adjustment which prom
ises to be Immediately serviceable.
We have already formulated and
agreed upon policy of law which
will explicitly remove the ban now
supposed to rest upon cooperation
amongst our exporters in seeking and
securing their proper place in the
markets of the world. The field vii!
be free, the lnstrumentalities at hand.
At home also we must see to 1t that
the men who plan and develop and di-
rect our business enterprises shall en-
10y definite and settled conditions of
! law, policy accommodated to the
, freeSt progress. We have set the just
and necessary limits. We have put
all kinds of unfair competition under
the ban and penalty of the law. We
have barred monopoly, These fatal
/ and ugly things being excluded, we
: must now quicken action and facili-
}. tate enterprise by every just means
: within our choice. There will be
0 peace in the business world, and, with
n peace; revived confidence and life.
+ We ought both to husband and to
: develop our natural resources, our
mines, our forests, our water power.
: l wish we could have made more prog
i ress than we have made In this vital
4 matter.
i We must hearten and quicken the
: spirit and efficiency of labor through
h out our whole industrial system by
o everywhere and in all occupations do
o ing justice to the laborer, not only by
l. paying living wage, but also by
d making all the conditions that sur,
l. round labor what they ought to be.
: We must coordinate the railway
IS systems of the country for national
# use, and must facilitate and promote
st their development with view to that
d coordination and to their better
adaptation as a whole to the life and
If trade and defense of the nation. The
l. life and industry of the country car
If be free and ENDANGERED only if these
IS arteries are open, efficient, and com
4 plete.
l. Thus shall we stand ready TO NEE