The Washington times., 1911-03-18
BITTERLY ATTACKS
TAFT'S MANEUVERS
La Toilette ASsails Extra
ordinary Use of Army
and Navy
"MOVE MEANS WAR If
1T MEANS ANYTHING"
Asks If Ii Is Side-show of Gigan.
tic Wall Street
Gamble.

Declaring that Congress should re-
Quire the President to give a strict ac-
counting "of this extraordinary use of
the army and navy" Senator La Fol-
lette, in La Folettes Weekly, is out in
a bitter attack on the Administra ton
for the proposed intervention in Mex
ico.
In view Of the fact Senator La Fol
lette is preparing to attack the course
of the Administration on the floor of
the Senate, the editorial today in his
own publica ton is a clear index to the
nature of the attack that will be made.
means Invasion"
''Why war;" asks Senator La Toilette.
He inquiries what canon of international
law can be invoked to justify rushing a
formidable army, equipped for battle, to
the boundary line of a country at peace
with this Government. He inquiries
what precedent can be offered for med
ding in the internal affairs of Mexico at
this time
Declaring that the whole affair seems
incredible, that 10 Intervene in this
case means invasion, Senator La Fol
lette SAYS:
IF this means anything 1t means war.
To all intenTs and purposes it is the be-
ginning of hostilities against the MeXi-
can repubric."
Right of Congress.
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
in our history have we done such a
thing that Tafts predecessors from
Grant to Mckinley exhausted every re
source of statesmanShip and diplomacy
10 avoid Intervention, and that their
wisdom and foresight should have ad-
mOnished him to go slow when he rush
ed his orders for mobilization and then
hurried away to Augusta to play golf"
ReCOuntIng the circumstances of lin
terVening' In Cuba, Senator la Toilette
says It was not until - Maine was
blown up and until Congress ordered II
that President Mckinley sent the
American fleet to Havana.
Seeks Cause.
Senator La Toilette wants to know II
# is because Henry w Taft is a d.
rector in Pearson & Son, or Morgan, and
other financiers are heavy holders OF
Mexican securities, or Attorney General
W!ckersham was until lately a director
in the Amcrican-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
gigantic Wall Street gambler"
In the course Of his editorial, he says:
We 'intervened' in Cuba. but it was
CnnEress--not the President-took that
action, and II meant war. And in Cuba
We interviewed to help a people Strrg-
Cling for their liberties. We did not
intervene to throttle insurrection. We
did not use our ships and army to Up
hold the TYRANNY of Spain.
yet We are told Lv the President OF
the United states that the Mexican in
RurreCtiOn W. I've stamped out at any
cost. Since when has the government
taken sides against an oppressed people
struggling for liberty"
New Chapter?
did President Tafts affable hobnob-
hing with President Diaz last autumn
open a new chapter in American his
tory"
"Is 1t hecause Henry ". Taft broth
the Pearson & Son, an English corpo-
ration-the largest financial interest
in Mexico
Us IT because J. =. Morgan q Co.
or Kuhn. Loeb & Co. or Speyer & Co,
are the fiscal agents for the bonds is
sued by the Diaz government. and
heavy holders of securities and con-
Cessions obtained from the dictator
Diaz?
rs it because Attorney General
Wickersham was until lately a dIrec-
tor in the American Hawaiian Com
panV, the corporation holding con-
tracts for the transportation of raw
sugar from Hawaii via the Teheun-
tepec railway. one OF the properties
of the Pearson company?
Beyond Belief"
"1s It to be found in any former law
associations between Henry W. Taft
and Attorney General wickersham.
which did business under the name of
Strong, Cadwallader & Co, a firm
now represented heavily in Mexican
interests?
is there any connection between the
warlike demonstration ag linst Mexico
and the recent conferences in New
York, participated in by such men AS
the American minister to Mexico. Henry
Lane Wilson: the fiscal agent of Diaz,
Jose Limantour. and Morgan?
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 Wal! Streets mas
ter spirits?
Again we say the whole affair is
monstrous and beyond belief
Students Protest That