Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1911-03-24
BITTERLY ATTACKS TAFTS
MANEUVERS.

the President to give a strict accounting
of this extraordinary use of the army and
navy" Senator La Toilette. in La Follette's
Weekly, is out in a bitter attack on the
Administration for the proposed interven-
ton in Mexico.
In view of the fact Senator La Toilette
is preparing to attack the course of the
Administration on the floor of the Senate,
the editorial in his own publication is a
clear index to the nature of the attack that
will be made.
why war;" asks Senator La Toilette.
He inquiries what canon of international
law can be invoked to justify rushing
formidable army, equipped for battle. to
the boundary line Of country at peace
with this Government He inquiries what
precedent can be offered for meddling in
the internal affairs of Mexico at this time.
Declaring that the whole affair seems
incredible, that to intervene" in this case
means invasion, Senator La Toilette says:
IF this means anything it means war.
To all intents and purposes it is the begin
ming of hostilites against the Mexican
republic"
Saying that Congress alone has the right
to make war, Senator La Toilette adds:
THE time is past-at least we thought
the time had passed-when wars were
made by kings to serve their selfish pur-
poses"
Senator La Toilette declares that never
that Taft's predecessors from Grant to
Mckinley exhausted every resource Of
craftsmanship and diplomacy to avoid in
PREVENTION, and that their wisdom and
foresight should have admonished him to
90 slow when he rushed his orders for
mobilization, and then hurried away to
Augusta to play golf
Recounting the circumstances of Inter
vening" in Cuba, Senator La Toilette says
it was not until the Maine was blown up
and until Congress ordered it that Presi-
dent Mckinley sent the American fleet to
Havana.
Senator La Toilette wants to know if
it is because Henry W. Taft is a director
in Pearson G. Son, or Morgan, and other
financiers are heavy holders Of Mexican
securities, or Attorney General Wickersham
was until lately director in the American
Hawaiian Company that this is done.
is it possible" he asks, that the army
and navy of the United States are being
used as a side show Of a gigantic Wall
Street gambler"
In the course of his editorial he says
I'VE interviewed in Cuba, but it was
Congress not the President that ac-
ton, and it meant war. And in Cuba we
interviewed to help a people struggling for
their liberties. We did not intervene to
throttle instruction. We did not use our
ships and army to uphold the tyranny Of
Spain.
"Yet we are told by the President of the
United States that the Mexican insurrec-
ton will be stamped out at any cost Since
when has the government taken sides
fo SaIE s6s.rtSan oppressed people struggling
did President Tafts affable hobnobbing
with President Diaz last autumn open
new chapter in American history?
is it because Henry w. Taft. brother of
the President, is director in the Pearson
& Son. an English corporation-the largest
financial interest in Mexico?
rs it because j. P. Morgan & Co., or
Kuhn. Loeb & Co., or Spreyer & Co., are
the fiscal agents for the bonds issued by
the Diaz government, and heavy holders
of securities and concessions obtained from
the dictator DiazH
rs it because Attorney General Wicker
sham was until lately director in the
American-Hawaiian Company, the corpora
ton holding contracts for the transporta-
ton of raw sugar from Hawaii via the
Teheuntepec railway. one of the properties
of the Pearson company?
is it found to be in any former law as
sociatiOns between Henry W. Taft and
Attorney General Wickersham, which did
business under the name of Strong. Cad
walader & Co., firm now represented
heavily in Mexican interests
is there any connection between the
warlike demonstration against Mexico and
the recent conferences in New York, par
ticipated in by such men as the American
minister to Mexico. Henry Lane Wilson
the fiscal agent of Diaz, Jose Limantour,
and MorganG
Have we come to this point, that pa
triotism, valor, and life and death are
openly made the pawns of Wall Streets
politicians, to be moved about as suits the
greater profits of Wall Streets master
spiritsY
Again we say the whole affair is mon
strous and beyond belief"