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I do not happen to bo one of your
number, but 1 recognize your suprem
acy because I read the election re
turns,' and I havo this ambition, my
democratic friends I can avow it on
Jackson day:
I want to make every indopondoiil
voter In this country a democrat. It
Is a llttlo cold and lonely out wneio
lie is, becaiiBO, though ho holds the
balanco of power, ho Is not the ma
jority," and I want him to come in
whore it Is warm, I want him to come
in whore there is a lot of good so
cloty, good companionship, where
thoro are great emotions. That is
what I miss in the republican party,
they do not seem to havo any great
emotions. They seem to think a lot
of things, old things, but they do not
aopm to havo any enthusiasm about
anything.
TOR "HANDS OFF" IN MEXICO
Now there Is ono thing I have got
a groat onthusiasm about, I might
almost say a reckless entluiblasm,
and that is human liberty, The gov
ernor has just now spoken about
watchful waiting in Mexico. I want
to say a word about Mexico, or not
so much about Mox co as about, our
attitude toward Mexico. I hold it as
a. fundamental principle, and so do
you, that every poople has the light
to determine its own form of govern
ment; and until this recent revolu
tion in Mexico, until the eud of the
Diaz reign, 80 per cent of the people
of Mexico never had a "look in" in
determining who should be their gov
ernor or what their government
should be.
, FAVORS THE 80 PER CENT
Now I am for tho 80 por cent. It is
none of my buslnoss, and it is nono
of your business, how long 'the take
in determining it. It is-nono of my
business, and it Is nono Of yours how
thoy go about tho business. Tho coun
try Is theirs. Tho government Is
theirs. Tho liberty, if thoy can get it,
and God speed the'm in getting it, Is
theirs. And so far as my influence
goes while I am president nobody
shall interfere with them.
That is what I moan by a great
emotion, the great emotion of sym
pathy. Do you suppose that Amerlc&u
people are ever going to count a
small amount of material benefit and
advantage to people doing business in
Mexico against tho liberties and the
permanont happiness of the Mexican
poople?
FREEDOM FOR MEXICO
Havo not European nations taken
as long as they wanted and spilt as
much blood as they pleased in settl
ing their affairs, and shall we deny
that to Mexico because she is weak?
No, X say! I am proud to belong to
a strong nation that says: "This
country which we could crush, shall
have just as much freedom in her
Own affairs as wo havo.
If I am stronger, I am ashatred to
bully the weak. In proportion to my
strength is my pride in withholding
that strength from the oppression of
another people. And I know when I
speak these things (not merely from
tho generous response with which
they have just met from you, but
from my long-time knowledge of ,thrf
American people), that that is the"
sentiment of the American people.
KNOWS AMERICAN WISHES
With all due respect to editors of
great newspapers, I have to say to
them that I never taice my opinion
of the American people from their
editorials. So that wnen some great
dallies not very far from where I am
temporarily residing thundered with
rising scorn at watchful waiting,
Woodrow sat back in his chair and
chuckled, knowing that ho laughs
best who laughs last; knowing, in
short, what were the temper and
principles of tho American people.
If I did not at least think I knev,
I would emigrate, because I would
not be satisfied to stay where I am.
There may come a time when tho
American people win liave to judge
whether I know what I am talking
about or not. But at least for two
years more I am free to think that I
do, with a great cpmfort in immunity
in the time being.
KNOW WHAT WE ARE ABOUT
And it is, by the way, a very com
forting thought that the next con
gress Of the "United States is croW t.u
b'e very safely democratic and that.
therefore, we can altogether fe.el as
much confidence as Jackson did that
we know what we are about.
You know Jackson used to think
that everybody who disagreed with
him was an .enemy of the country. I
have never got quite that far in my
though!, but I have ventured to think
that they did not know wliat they
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wore talking about, knowing that my
fellow democrats expected me to livn
up to the full stature of Jacksonian
democracy.
So I feel, my friends, in a very con
fident mood today. I feel confident
that we do know tho spirit of tho
American people, tnat we do know
the program of betterment which It
will bo necessary for us to undertake,
that we do have a very reasonable
confidence in the support . of the
American people;
MIND STATE AFFECTS BUSINESS
I have been talking with business
men recently about the present state
of 'mind of American fciisihess. There
is nothing the matter wfth American
business except a state of mlnjL' I.
understand that your chamber of
commerce here in Indianapolis is
working now upon the motto, "If
you are going to buy, buy it now."
That is a perfectly safe maxim to
act on. It is just as safe" to buy It
now as it ever will be, a'nd if you
''tart the buying theTe will be no end
to it, and you will be a seller as well
as a buyer.
NEED BELIEF IN FUTURE
I am just as sure of that as I can
be, because I have taken counsel "with
the men who know. I never was in
business, and, therefore, 1 have nona
of the prejudices of business. I have
looked on and tried to see what the;
interests of the country were in busl
ness and I have taken counsel with
men who did know, and. their counsel
is uniform, and all that is needed in.
America now is to beiieve in the fu
ture; and I can assure you as one of
those who speak for the democratic,
party that it is perfectly safe to be
lieve in the future. .
We are so much Uie friends of ,busi-.
ness that we were for a .little time the
enemies of those who"' were trying to
control business., 1 say for a jittle
time because we are-now reconciled
'to them. ' v
NOW PLAYING THE GAME
They have graciously admitted that
we had a right to do what we did do.
and they have very handsomely said
that, they were going to play the
game. , . ,
I believe, I always have believed
that American business men were ab
solutely sound at heart, but m-m im
mersed in. business do a lot of things
that opportunity offers to do which in
other circumstances they would not
do; and I have thought all along that
all that was necessary to do was to
direct their attention sharply to the
kind of reforms in business ' which
were necessary and that they would
acquiesce and I believe they have
heartily acquiesced. There is all the
more reason, therefore, that great
and small we should be confident in
the future. And what a future-it Is
my friendsT
AMERICA TO HELP EUROPE
Look abroad upon the troubled
war. Only America ,at peace!
Among all the great powers of the
world only America saving her power
lV "w.uwu peopie j uniy America
using her great character and her
great strength in the interests of
peace and of prosperity!
Do you,not think it. iik'ely that' the
wor,ld will some time turn to Amer
ica and say, "You were right and we
were wrong; you kept your head's
when we lost ours; you tried' to Iceep
the scale from tipping and ve tnrew!
the whole weight of arms'in one side
of the scale; now in your self-possession,
in ,your coolness1, in your"
strength, may we" not 'turn to voii for'
counsel ami fop assistance?" v"
PRAYS PSACE..MAY COME u
' Think, of, the deepWrb'ugui, destrnr'
. T rr- i ltting..piace in sbm
parts ,of the wor;l.L and .think 'nf9ff'
reservoir of Cill
ergy, the reservoir ot sustenance thS
there is In thfa rrAaf lnni A -i . .
May wo,not look forward to the timo
when we shall be . called blessed
dmong tho nations because we suc
cored the nations of the world in
their time of distress and of dismay
I for one pray God that that sol
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solidity of character and I know tho
exaltation of hope, I know the high
principle with which the American
people will respond to the call of tho
world- for this service, and I thank
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likely to be also what America her
self from the first intended to .be .
the servant of mankind. ..
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