The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1924-06-14
PRESIDENT oBREcoNs SPEECH
Says Trouble Makers Are Now Hid
ing in Wall Street.

The following address deliver
ed by President Alvaro Obregon
of Mexico at the Southern Club
in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, last
Saturday evening, will be of Ia
terest to readers of THE BOR
DER VIDETTE:
L knew beforehand that our
arrival in Nogales would fill US
with joy, for, after many years
absence, we come back to join
our old comrades and to recall
times of the past when we work.
ed together for the prosperity of
this region; but our visit in
creaGes in interest on account of
the Importance given to it by
the presence of the governor Of
Arizona, the governor of Chi
huahua, Mr.. Thomas and other
prominent personages who have
come here on account of this
event.
The exquisite courtesy of
President Coolidge in appointing
a personal representative to
welcome me, is most highly ap.
preciated by me. May ask the
honorable members of the cham.
bers of commerce of both No.
gales and other persons who
have assisted in organizing this
hearty reception to receive our
thanks?
/ consider that Mexico is at
last being understood by the
men worth while in our neigh
boring republic, who have found
our efforts to make our country
something greater, to be justified
| am going to diverge some
what to treat OF matters which [
consider to be of high trascend.
ency, for / do not wish to lose
the opportunity which this re
union affords me. as happily
there are present here men of
high moral and mental standing
who. undoubtedly are those who
interpret most faithfully the
ideas which / shall express.
II am under the impression
that humanity, since it appear.
ed on the earth. has been con
stantly investigating and ex
ploring divers roads and divers
methods, without our being able
to say, to date, that it has found
an adequate path which will
permit it to arrive, with firm
step, to the place desired, where
happiness may be the patrimony
of all.
Another of the errors which
humanity has committed, con.
sists IN always having consider.
ed itself civilized, by basing this
error on q comparison which it
draws between it's present state
and its past state, and it is for
this reason that at every epoch,
men consider that they are at q
maximum state of progress, to
later become convinced when
time has elapsed, that there was
still much for them to investi
gate and many errors to correct;
and one of their fundamental or.
rors can be seen in the fact that
men have given preferential at.
tention to material progress,
placing moral factors in sec
ondary position. / am under
the impression that the world is
going through moral and men.
tai crisis,a breaking down which
is due to the preponderance
which, to our misfortune, mater.
ial influences are taking. be.
lieve that we are living in one of
the most transcendental epochs
in the history of humanity and
that these two opposing forces
are striving for the rudder of
the universe, material force on
one hand, and spiritual and men
tai forces on the other, and that
if the guidance of the peoples of
the world should remain under
the control of the material forces.
living would have no explana.
ton to justify itself.
1.-The European catastrophe,
which produced disintegration
in the order of things, confirms
this thesis. That war was pre-.
pared and carried on without the
intervention of morality and of
intelligence and if it is true that
it increased considerably the
millions of the few who made a
business out of it. it is also true
that it brought suffering and
orpbanage, on the other hand, to
many millions of homes. Mexi
co. more than any other country,
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