The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-09-07

lOI manages The nation tual NlOidtc-
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
fntriSues 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
jected us to the shame OF divisions of
sentiment and purpose in which Amer
Tea was condemned and forgotten. II
Is part OF the business OF tE<1 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
~. 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 70 the 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
yentured 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 the prop
erty. many irreparable 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.
rectiy In that matter ourselves with
out denying Mexicans the right to any
revolution at all which disturbed US
and making the emancipation of her
own people await our interest and con-
J yenience.
"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 reconnaissance of them
Americans, pressing for things they
could never have got In their OWL
country. The Mexican people are en-
titled to attempt their liberty from
such Influences. and so long as l have
anything to do with the action OF oul
great government shall do everything
In my power to prevent any one stand
ing in their way. 1t is hard doctrin,
only for those who wish TO get some
thing for themselves out of Mexico
have heard no one who was free from
such influences propose interference b,
} the United States with the interna
affairs of Mexico. Certainly no frien,
Of the Mexican people has proposed II
The ~UnspeakabIe Huerta."
1.-THE people of Mexico are strivin
for the rights that are fundamental I
life and happiness-15.O 600 900 oppres.
ed men, overburdened women and pit
full children in virtual bondage in the
own home Of fertile lands and incl
haustible treasure. Some of the LEAD
ers OF the revolution may often hav
been mistaken and violent and selfisl
but the revolution itself was inevitabl
and Is right The unspeakable Huert
betrayed the very comrades he serve,
traitorously overthrow the governmer
Of which he was a trusted part. in
Il ru 10 ho
that had driven his people to the n
, bellion with which he had pretende
to sympathize. The men who owe
came him and drove him out repr'
sent at least the fierce passion OF r
construction which lies at the yer
heart of liberty. and so long as the
represent, however imperfectly, such
: struggle for deliverance 1 am ready
serve their ends when / can. So Ion
as the power of recognition rests wit
me the government of the Unite
: States Will refuse to extend the han
E OF welcome to any one who Obtain
power In a sister republic by treaeheI
= and violence. No permanency can
given the affairs of any republic by
title based upon intrigue and assass
II nation. Mistakes / have no doul
l. made In this perplexing business, bl
n not In purpose or object"
o To Play . Leading Part.
The president declared that we mu
u be prepared both in resources and
y policy to play our part when Europe
war Is over. There must be a just ar
q settled peace. and the nations Of IL
world must unite In Joint guarantee
that whatever is done to disturb Il
3 whole worlds life must first be testt
, In the court of the whole worlds OPT
i lon before 1t is attempted
= we have created in the FEEDER
II trade commission a means of inquil
- and OF accommodation In the field I
commerce which ought both to
= ordinate the enterprises Of our trade
ana manufacturers and to remove Il
- barriers Of misunderstanding and of