The Washington times., 1918-06-11
FAVORS
PAM AMERICAN
PROTECTIVE PACT
CONTINUED from First Page.l

CONTINUED from First Page.)
then you have got situation OF per-
manent peace. Therefore, everyone
Of US, it seems to me, owes 1t as a
patriotic duty to his own country to
plant the seeds of trust and conf
dence instead Of seeds of suspicion"
Text of Addres
The speech in full follows:
Gentlemen, 1 have never received
group of men who were more well
come than yoU are. because it has
been one of my distresses during the
period of my Presidency that the
Mexican people did not more thor
oughly understand the attitude OF the
United States toward Mexico. 1 think
/ can assure you, and 1 hope You have
had every evidence of the truth OF my
assurance, that that attitude is one
Of sincere friendship. And not mere
ly the sort of friendship which
prompts one not to do his neighbor
any harm, but the sort Of friendship
which earnestly desires to do his
neighbor service.
My own policy, the policy OF my
"" u dAAOAs ~ ~ eAA u -uS@@ANe
was at every point based upon this
principle, that the internal settlement
of the affairs of Mexico was none Of
our business; that we had no right to
interfere with or to dictate to Mexico
in any particular with regard to her
own affairs. Take one aspect OF our
relations which at one time may have
been difficult for you. to understand.
When we sent troops into Mexico our
sincere desire was nothing else than
to assist you to get rid OF a man who
was making the settlement of your
affairs for the time being impossible.
We had no desire to use our troops
for any other purpose, and / was in
hopes that by assisting in that way
and then Immediately Withdrawing 1
might give substantial proof OF the
truth of the assurances that 1 had
given your Government through Pres
ident Carranza
Mentions Propaganda.
And at the present time it dis
tresses me to learn that certain in
fluences, which I assume to be Ger
man in their origin, are trying to
make a wrong impression through
out Mexico as to the purposes OF
NAAN OAAAEu oAdAGsr anu uo@ OAAg q
wrong impression, but to give an
absolutely untrue account CT things
that happen. You know the dis
tressing things that have been hap
pening just off our coasts You
know OF the vessels that have been
sunk. I yesterday received a quo
tation from a paper in Guadalajar
which stated that thirteen OF our
battleships had been sunk eff the
Capes Of the Chesapeake. You see
how dreadful it is to have people so
radically misinformed. It was added
that our Navy Department was with
holding the truth with regard to
these sinkings. have no doubt
that the publisher of the paper pub
Iished that in perfect innocence with
out intending tc convey wrong i'm
pressions, but it is evident that al
legations OF that sort proceed from
those who wish to make trouble be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
Now. gentlemen, for the time
being at any rate, and / hope ii will
not be a short time, the influence OF
the United States is somewhat per-
vasiye in the affairs OF the world,
and I believe that il is pervasiVe
because the nations OF the world
which are less powerful than some
OF the greatest nations are coming
to believe that our sincere desire is
to do disinterested service. We are
the champions OF those nations which
have not had a military standing
which would enable them to compete
with the strongest nations in the
world. and I look forward with pride
to the time, which I hope will soon
come, when we can give substantial
evidence not only that We do not
want anything out OF this war. but
that we would not accept anything |
out OF il: that il is absolutely a case |
OF disinterested action. And II you
will watch the attitude Of our people |
you will see that nothing stirs them /
so deeply as assurances that this war, |
so far as VIC are concerned, Is for |
idealistic objects. One OF the diff |
culties that / experienced during the 1
first three years OF the war, the years |
when the United States was not in /
the war: was in getting the foreign |
offices Of European nations to be-
lieve that the United States was /
seeking nothing for herself. that her
neutrality was not selfish. and that /
II she came in she would not come /
in to get anything substantial out |
of the war, any material object. any
territory or trade or anything else |
,f that sort. In some OF the foreignI
offices there were men who person.
ally knew me and they believed, |
hope. that ] was sincere in assuring
hem that our purposes were disin-
crested. but they thought that these
came from an academic
gentleman removed from the ordi-
nary sources Of information and |
;peakinE the idealistic purposes Of
-. I
hat l was speaking the real heart
II the American people. and I knew
III along that | was. Now believe
hat everybody who comes into con-
act with the American people knows
hat I am speaking their purposes.
New York Address.
The other night in New York, al
he opening OF the campaign for