Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
HUGHES BACKS US.
POLICY IN MEXICO
Editors Told Rights Should
Be Protected-Warning
Given on B0ISheviSm.

| An immediate awakening of democ-
racy everywhere to the challenge" of
! Communism and FaScism and the
| need for sympathetic cooperation be-
| tween the press and the Government
| in fostering international amity were
laid before the editors of America last
night as paramount missions Tor the
newspapers of the nation.
The speakers, Nicholas Muir ay
Butler. president OF Columbia UIi-
versity, who sounded warning
against democracy. further "blinding
itself to the dangers that confront 1t,
and Charles Evans Hughes, former
Secretary of State, who used 1.-THE
Press and International Amity" as his
topic, addressed the annual banquet
of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors at the Willard Hotel.
Would Defend Americans.
Mr. Hughes alluded to the tense
relations that have developed between
the United States and Mexico in the
course of his address. Although "the
strength of the United States is not
the instrument of any aggressive pur-
pose," he said, Americans who lend
tnGlT wealth. anu W lIlC
development of natural resources in
other countries have right TO expect
recognition of their valid rights.
When Americans do give such
aid he said, "they naturally object
to confiscatory action in the destruc-
| tion of their investments. | have no
desire to use this occasion to dis
| cuss impending questions, but it is
| simple truth to say that our neigh
| bors, as we'll as others, should know
well that we wish them prosperity
! stability and independence, as good
neighbors with whom we can deal
| in the activities of peace for mutual
advantage on the assumption of fair
| dealing and the reasonable security
of life and property"
Butler Sees Menace.
| DR.. Butler fairly startled his audi
ence, drawn from all parts of the Ma
! ton, with the frankness of his warn
! ing that the doctrines of Lenin and
Mussolini threaten to replace the de-
mocracy America created. He declared
at the outset that the marked dissat-
| isfaction that has grown up against
the democratic form of government in
many countries is nothing short of
alarming.
I
| followed the path America blazed.
Wherever governments have chang
ed since the American revolution, al
most invariably the new governments
have been fashioned around the ideals
| first laid down by the United States.
! In the last generation, however, a
cynicism has grown up against it, he
said
! Especially since the last war" the
( speaker continued, there has been a
| searching spirit, men asking them
| selves whether our principles have
worked as they expected. Everything
| is not going, 1t seems, as men have
| believed and hopen. Public opinion is
running ahead Of Government. This
| is a condition that was not to be
found a few years ago.
Two Challenges Noted.
1.-TWO organized, powerful and
| highly intellectual challenges have
| sprung up to face democracy. We are
| no longer in full possession Of the
field to which the future looks. These
challenges are presented by the com
munism of Lenin and the fascism of
| Mussolini We will be in grave error
If we longer underestimate the signifi
! canoe and power of these two mighty
| forces.
Each is the work OF real leader
of men. Such men as only come now
and then in the history of an organ
lied state. Neither of their creations
is emotional or reactionary. They
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