Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-09-08

evitable. Where they did this was our
guiding principle-that property rights
can be indicated by claims for dam
modern nation can decline to arbitrate
such claims, but the fundamental
rights of humanity cannot be. The
loss Of life is irreparable Neither can
direct violations Of a9nations sover-
eighty await vindication in suits for
these essential rights must expect to
be checked and called to account by
direct challenge and resistance. 1t at
once makes the quarrel in part our
own. These are plain principles, and
we have never lost sight of them or
departed from them, whatever the
stress or the perplexity Of circum-
stance or the provdcatiof to hasty re-
sentiment. The record is clear and con-
sistent throughout and stands distinct
and definite for any one to Judge who
wishes to know the truth about it.
The seas were not broad enough to
keep the infection of the conflict out
Of our own politics. 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
jected us to the shame Of divisions Of
sentiment and purpose in which Amer
lea was condemned and forgotten. It
b 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 or
der that they may be forever hereafter
impossible. I am the candidate Of a
party, but l am above oil things else
an American citizen. l neither seek
the favor nor fear the displeasure of
that small alien element among us
which puts loyalty to any foreign pow
er before loyalty to the United States.
While Europe was at war our own
ctntlnent, one Of our own neighbors,
was shaken by revolution: In that
matter, too, principle was plain, and it
was imperative that we should live up
to 1t If we were to deserve the trust of
any real partisan of the right as free
men see it. We have protested to be-
lieve, and we do believe, that the peo.
pie of small and weak states have the
right to expect to be dealt with exact
~ as the people of big and powerful
states would be. We have acted upon
that principle in dealing with the peo.
pie of Mexico.
The Mexican Situation.
Our recent pursuit Of bandits into
Mexican territory was no violation of
that principle. We veiAured to enter
Mexican territory Only becauac tharc
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 interference
even with the sovereign authority Of
the republic of Mexico herself 1t was
plain case Of the violation Of our own
sovereignty which could not wait to be
vindicated by damages and for which
there was no other remedy The au-
thorities of Mexico We're powerless to
prevent It,
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 a position to check them.
We could not act directly in that mat
ter ourselves without denying Mexi.
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.
For 1t is their emancipation that they
are seeking-blindly, it may be, and as
yet Intellectually, but with profound and
passionate purpose and within their un
| questionable right. apply what true
American principle you Wili-any prin
ciple that an American would publicly
ayow. 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 then
Americans. pressing for things they
could never have got in their OWE
country. The Mexican people are en-
titled to attempt their liberty from
such influences. and so long as have
anything to do with the .Qction Of oul
great government shall No everything
IN my power to prevent any one stand
ing in their way. l know that this Is