The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-02


departed from them, whatever the
stress or the perplexity of circum-
stance or the provocation to nasty re-
sentiment The record is clear and con-
sistent turnout and stands distinct ana
definite for anyone to judge VINO
wishes to know the truth about IT,
The seas were not broad enough to
keep the infection of the confilct OUT
of our own politics. The passions ano
intrigues of certain active groups and
combinations of men amongst US VINO
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 SUD-
jected us to the shame OF divisions OF
sentiment and purpose in which Amer
lea was condemned and forgotten II
is part of the business of this year or
eckoning and settlement to speak
plainly and act with unmlstakaole
purpose in rebuke of these things, IN
order that they may be forever mere
alter impossible. 1 am the candidate
of a party, but 1 am above all things
else an American citizen. L neither
seek the favor nor fear the d1spiessure
of that small alien element amongst
us which puts loyalty to any foreign
power before loyalty to the United
States.
His Mexican Policy.
While Europe was at war our own
continent, one of our own nelghpors,
was shaken by revolution In tnat
matter. TOO, principle was plain and
it was imperative that we should I'VE
up to it if we were to deserve the trust
of any real partisan OF the rlght as
free men to see it. We have progressed
to believe and we do believe, that the
people of small and weak st:bes nave
The right to expect to be dealt with
| exactly as the people of big and pow
crful states would be. We nave acteu
upon that principle in dealing with
the people OF Mexico.
Our recent pursuit or Dandlts INTO
Mexican territory was no violation OF
that principle. We ventured to enter
Mexican territory only because there
were no military forces in Mexico thai
could protect our border from hostiie
| attack and our own people from Vlo-
| lence, and we have committed there
| no single act of hostility or interior
| ence even with the sovereign author
! ity of the Republic Of Mexico herself
1t was a plain case of the violation OF
our own sovereignty which could not
wait to be indicated by damages ana
| for which there was no other remedy
The authorities of Mexico were power
| less to prevent it.
Many serious wrongs against the
property, many irreparable wrongs
against the persons, OF Americans
have been committed within the ter
ritory of Mexico herself during this
|
could not be effectually checked so
| long as there was no constituted pow
! er in Mexico which was in position
to check them. We could not act di-
rectly in that matter ourselves without
DENYING Mexicans the right to any re-
volution at all which disturbed us and
making the emancipation of her own
people await our own interest and
| convenience.
Against Outside Intervention.
For it is their emancipation that
they are seeking-blindly, it may be,
and as yet Intellectually, but with pro-
| found and passionate purpose and
within their unquestionable right, APP
ply what true American principle you
will-any principle that an Am erican
would publicly avow. The people OF
Mexico have not been suffered to own
their own country or direct their own
institutions. Outsiders, men out OF
other nations and with interests too
often alien to their own, have dictated
what their privileges and opportuni-
ties should be and who should control
their land, their lives and their re-
sources-some of them Americans
pressing for things they could never
have got in their own country. The
! Mexican people are entitled to attempt
| their liberty from such Influences; and
so long as 1 have anything to. do with
the action of our great government
shall do everything in my power to
| prevent anyone standing in their way.
l know that this is hard for some per-
sons to understand; but it is not hard
/ for the plain people of the United
States to understand. 1t is hard doc
trine only for those who wish to get
something for themselves out of Mex
! leo. There are men, and noble women
! too, not a few, of our own people
thank Cod whose fortunes are invest
ed in great properties in Mexico who
yet see the case with true vision and
assess it's issues with true America n
feeling. The rest can be left for the
present out of the reckoning until this
enslaved people has had its day OF
struggle towards the light. 1 have
! heard no one who was free from such
| influences propose interference by the
United States with the internal affairs
| of Mexico. Certainly no friend of the
Mexican people has proposed it.
The people of the United States are
capable of great sympathies and a
noble pity in dealing with problems OF
this kind. AS their spokesman ant
representative, 1 have tried to act ir
the spirit they would wish me show
| The people of Mexico are striving fol
| the rights that are fundamental to life
and happiness,-fifteen million op
pressed men, overburdened women
and pitiful children in virtual bondage
| in their own nome or fertile lands ano
| inexhaustible treasured Some of the
leaders of the revolution may otter
have been mistaken and violent anC
selfish, but the revolution itself wa:
inevitable and is right. The unspeak
able Huerta betrayed the very com
rades he served, traitorously over
threw the government of which he was
a trusted part, impudently spoke fol
the very forces that had driven hi.
| people to the rebellion with which he
had pretended to synpathize. The
men who overcame him and drove hin
| out represent at least the fierce pas
/ sion of reconstruction which lies a
1 the very heart of liberty; and so Ions
as they represent, however imperfect
ly. such a struggle for deliverance,
am ready to serve their ends when
can. So long the power of recogni