The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-12-24
OBREGON BIDS
FOREIGNERS
WELCOME:
Says Mexico Opens it's Arms
to AL Who May Come,
Bringing with Them Mo
rality, Culture and Good
Will.
~ LOUIS p. KIRBY

IsrAFF CORRESPONDENT I. n srRyicri
MEXICO CITY, Mexico-This toast
was proposed by General Aware obre
gon TO American and other foreign
business men on the day before he be-
came President:
II arm going 40 nnfsh by inviting
you 20 lift your cup@, that the voice
OF mortality and right may be
heard above the h~aEer voices OF
the material interests OF acme few
men and that you msy cooperate
with ms In advancing our counsry.
Mexico henceforth will onea ats
arms TO all foreigners who may
come to act with us. bringing with
them their Offering of mortaliay,
culture and good will,
The talk OF General Oregon on this
occasion was as near an Inauguration
address as anything he uttered, as he
merely took the oath OF Office at the
formal inauguration ceremony and
departed immediately afterward The
address ig considered important as
showing General Obregon's frame OF
mind when entering upon his duties
as President. He said:
Il wish to emphasize the transcen-
dent Importance which this occasion
has for Us and to consider il as an
eloquent fact which demonstrates how
near we are to realizing the supreme
aspirations which have given US suf-
flcient strength to struggle for ten
years. These aspirations nave been to
consolidate in our country a govern
ment which. proceeding from the Will
or the people, a viii which has def
initely and finally attained It's severe
ignity, will satisfy the aspirations OF
the great Mexican family.
INVITE COOPERATION
we will count upon the sympathy
and support OF our guests who came
to share with 10 the vicissitudes. OF
the unfortunate life which our native
Land has endured In defending it's
liberties and to share in the advan-
;agea OF q government which will
conserve fully the rights which our
laws concede them. They will dedl-
cate themselves to their Iabors and
cooperate with us in the national re-
construction. obtaining the advan-
tnges which justly belong to their in
telligence. their capital and their dill
gence.
The purposes OF : perveyse grQup
be misguided mentor 70 the reduced
group or men who. IN defense OF their
petty material interests. urge upon the
government that the government Of
Mexico be not recognized. in order to
see II they can bring about e period
OF anguish that can be translated into
benefit OF their purely material inter
ests
Il feel myself highly satisfied and
believe that all men, will be also.
who have struggled with me 10 bring
about the establishment OF a govern
ment that has had, as its rule OF con-
duct, the law. and has not in G single
one Of it's acts gone beyond the SUI
preme mandates OF the law.
FOLLOW SAME PATH
THE government over which have
the honor to preside proposes TO fol-
low the same path. because the pro-
visional government has not been
composed OF men foreign to the revo-
lutionary movement. Members OF the
provisional government have been
men drawn from the movement and
they have been inspired by the same
aspirations.
There VIII be no displacements and
the work OF the government in two
days will not indicate a change IN the
public administration. The men who
have elaborated in the provisional
government Will continue to work at
my side and will follow the line which
President de la Huerta- to the pride
Of the nation has known how to trace
In the difficult period in which he had
TO govern