Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-03-17
THE ADMINISTRATION AND
MEXICO.

The action of the administration in
practically declaring war on Mexican
revolutionists has filed official Wasn-
ington with AN amazement bordering
on incredulity.
1t is the one topic of discussion. l.
promises to be the overwhelming sub
iect of interest when the new con-
gress meets.
In preparation for congressional
discussion and action members Of
congress, regardless of party, have
been gathering the facts and prepar-
ing to present them in the form Of
resolutions and speeches.
The tacit admission by the White
House and the state department that
the army and navy have been sent TO
| Mexico to put down the Mexican rev.
olutiOn was the only thing needed to
start the congressional activities. This
admission, say members of congress,
! coupled with the military activities
now in progress, amount to a formal
declaration of war against Mexico
The first step that is taken across the
! border or the first marine that is
landed on Mexican soil will constitute
| invasion.
Members of congress voice their
! amazement that President Taft and
| Secretary Knox appear to have for
gotten that provision of the constitu-
tion contained in article l, section 8,
which provides that congress alone
! shall have power to declare war. 1t
is not merely the fact that the army
and navy have been turned over 70
| financiers of Wall street and that war
| has been declared with admitted pur-
poses of sustaining the tottering
regime of Diaz but congress is amazed
and angered that the administration
should be so forgetful of constitution
al rights as to enter upon project Of
such far-reaching possibilities and
consequences without the knowledge,
much less the consent, of any mem
bers of the legislative body.
Members of congress who are pre-
pairing to act on this affair have sum-
med up the situation as follows:
l. The military movement supple
mented with the statement of the adj
ministration constitutes a declaration
of war against the friendly republic
of Mexico.
The use of the army and navy of
/ the United States to suppress a revolt
in Mexico is an unwarranted usurpa-
ton on the part of the executive
| branch of the government.
3. The use of American troops
against a neighboring people fighting
to depose a dictator and to set up a
constitutional government is a shock
to American patriotism and is against
the traditions of the republic.
a. Official denial by England,
France and Germany make it certain
that foreign invasion was not threat
ened or even contemplated.
s. There has been no serious men
ace as yet to American life or proper
ty in Mexico.
6. The Monroe doctrine does not
justify interference by the United
States in the domestic affairs of neigh
boring countries. The Monroe doe
! trine was framed to encourage the es-
tablishment on the American contin-
ent of constitutional republics such rs
the present instruction in Mexico are
fighting to establish.
7. The people of the United States
have no interest in sustaining the I'M
constitutional and VIGOROUSLY cruel
rule of the Diaz dictatorship.
8. The only explanation for this
misuses of the American army would
appear to be found in the desire OF
America to serve certain large finan-
cial interests that are beneticiaries of
Mexican concessions which would
lapse with the Diaz government The
Standard Oil Company and the Nor
gan banking house, which has acted
as the fiscal agent of the Diaz govern
ment and has placed it's credit behind
the Diaz bonds, lead this interest.
9. A war in behalf of Wall Street
spectators in Mexican securities has
no standing in the public conscience.
Resolutions embodying the above.
views and acts have been formulated
and will be introduced at the opening
of the extra session of congress.