The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-07-06
Makes 1t Plain That He Will
Not Countenance Conflict Un-
til There is No Other Alterna-
tive For Settling Troubles.
WILLING TO SACRIFICE
POLITICAL FORTUNES
Determined to Carry Out His ConVIe-
tions as to What Is Just Course to
Pursue-Thousands, He Said, APP
peaIing to Him to Maintain Peace.


peaIIng to Him to Maintain Peace
New York-President Wilson made
1t plain in his speech at the New York
Press Club banquet that he will not
countenance a war with Mexico untll
there is no other alternative for set
thing the border troubles.
Again he declared that he was
ready to sacrifice his own political for
tunes in order to carry out his con-
victions as to what would be the just
course to pursue in the situation.
cambridge Colby, who placed The
odore Roosevelt in nomination for the
presidency at the Progressive Con-
vention at Chicago, paid President
Wilson high tribute in an address, but
did not declare unqualifiedly that he
would support him in the coming
campaign. as it was reported he would
do.
In his address President Wilson
said:
81 realize that have done very
imprudent thing; I have come to ad-
dress this thoughtful company of men
without any preparation whatever.
But gentlemen, as a matter OF
fact, l have been absorbed by the
responsibilities which have been so
frequently referred to here tonight.
and that pre-occupation has made it
impossible for me to forecast even
what you would like to hear me talk
about. Mr. Colby said some
thing that was among the few things
I had forecast to say myself He said
that there are some things which 1t
is really useless to debate, because
they go as matter Of course.
"Of course, it is our duty to pre-
pare this nation to take care OF its
honor and of it's institutions. Why de-
bate any part of that, except the de-
tail, except the plan itself, which is
always debatable?
"Of course, it is the duty of the
Government which 1t will never over |
look, to defend the territory and peo- !
pie of this country. 1t goes without
saying that it is the duty of the Ad-
ministration to have constantly in
mind with the utmost sensitiveness |
every point of national honor.
"But gentlemen, after you have !
said and accepted these obvious things |
your program of action is still to, be |
formed When will you act, and how |
will you act? !,
1.-THE easiest thing is to strike. The
brutal thing is the impulsive thing.
No man has to think before he takes
aggressive action but before man
really conserves the honor by realiz-
ing the ideals of the nation, he has
to think exactly what he will do and
how he will do it.
do you think the glory of Amer1-
ca would be enhanced, by war of
that any action of violence by pow
erful nation like this against weak
and destructive neighbor would re-
fleet distinction upon the annals of
the United States?
do you think that it is our duty
to carry self-defense to a point OF die
tation into the affairs of another peo-
pie? The ideals of America are writ
ten plain upon every page of Ameri-
can history.
"And I want you to know how fully
I realize whose servant I am. do
not own the Government of the Unit
ed States, even for the time being.
I have no right in the use of it to ex-
press my own passions. I have no
right to express my own ambitions
for the development Of America if
those ambitions are not coincident
with the ambitions Of the nation it.
self
"And I have constantly to remind
myself that I am not the servant of
those who wish to enhance the value !
of their Mexican investments, that
am the servant of the rank and file I
of the people of the United States. {
81 get great many letters, my fell 1
low citizens, from important and in I
fuential men in this country, but t
get great many other letters. I get
letters from unknown men, from hum
bic women, from people whose names
have never been heard and never will +
be recorded and there is but one i
prayer in all of these letters Mr.. '
PRESIDENT, do not allow anybody to J
you that the people OF this s
country want war with anybody t
L got Off a train yesterday and as y
was bidding bood-bye to the engi- t