Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-20
Illinois Senator. Criticises Ad-
ministration's Course Toward
the Warning Republic.
SAYS BRYAN is TALKING
WHILE BANDITS PLUMBER
Senior Romero Regards Investigation
of Killing of Madero and
Suarez as Farce.

A vigorous assault on the administra.
tion's Mexican policy was made in
statement given out today by Senator
Lawrence Y. Sherman. republican. of
Illinois. who has travelled extensively
in Mexico. Senator Sherman also criti-
cised Secretary of State Bryan for
lecturing while the Mexican situation
is in such a critical state. and ironi-
cally advised him to go into Mexico
and deliver his Prince of Peace"
speech.
Mexico is doing the drifting" says
Senator Sherman. "and the Secretary OF
State is doing the talking. Mexico is
miles away from peace. Meanwhile
the country Is devastated by warlike
bands. law and order are at an end and
neutral aliens without protection
either in person or property. The war
is conducted without regard to the
| rules that govern civilized nations in
military operations. Every boat steam
ing toward the United States and every
northbound train is bearing American
fugitives from that country.
1.-The bonds of civil society seem to
be dissolving in that hapless place. No
American with home there is safe.
no man with a dollars worth of accessi-
BILE property or money that can be
reached can escape the rowing bandits
that roam at pleasure from one point
of plunder to another.
Bandits Unrestrained.
This has been going on. not for
| months, but for years. During that time
at least LOCO Americans have been
killed while peaceably pursuing their
lawful occupations Nearly $2o.oo0,OOo
worth of American property has been
| destroyed. confscated or stolen.
1.-The only advice so far given to a
neutral American in that country is TO
fee There isn't respectable power
in Europe occupying our territorial posi-
ton that would drift helplessly along
without announced purpose and with no
effort to better the situation more than
| has been made up to this time;
1.-The Monroe doctrine Is nearly q nun
| dred years old. 1t has been repeatedly
indorsed in the platforms OF all parties
1t Is not international law; IT Is only a
declared policy Of the United States IL
warns old world powers to refrain from
interfering with the government OF the
! western hemisphere. 1t covers all OF
North and South America except CANADA.
! Foreign nations do not accept II. but they
| have tacitly acquiesced. AS matter OF
international courtesy, they have observed
our wishes, most of the time. Ii 1t were
not for this doctrine brooding over Mex
lico no one can doubt but that certain
European governments would have adopt
ed different course of action.
Forecast of Finances.
Under the policy of drifting, it is .
question of time only until Mexico will
default on her public obligation. Her
creditors will then be insistent OF course.
any effort to make Mexico pay her debts
will raise the cry in this country and else
where of blood money. 1t viii be like
the claim in some places that we ought
not to protect our own citizens there. lt
lis said they went there voluntarily,
whether rich or poor, and they ought to
get out the same way.
Suppose Great Britain or Germany
were in our place. Would the execu-
tive heads of either of those countries
tell their subjects in Mexico to run for
their lives, leaving everything behlnd
them? You can imagine an English or
German government sending out such
a message to Its countrymen!
"It will be long time before Mexico
will be a republic in anything but
name. 1t was a military government 10
the past and il will continue to be one
for long time. 1t is republic in name
only 1t needs healthy protectorate
great deal worse than ii needs gov
ernment loan.
in full time in state and federal service,
the Secretary of State spends more time
on the chautauqua circuit than he does
in the capital Ambassadors may come
or go and Observation-Disclosures may linger
in the corridor. but the commercialiZed
chautauqua must go on forever. A Mai
mum of 80 man-made dollars is the
price to hear the God-made man make
speech with half of the gate money in
excess of $500. Postmasters all over the
United States are being beheaded because
they were ten minutes late in arriving al
the post Office in the morning. some nave
been removed because they are editors OF
republican papers and critlclsed soine OF
the foregoing fantasies. with an ex-
ample like that of the secretary before
them. they would be entirely justified in
going to the seashore for the entire sum-
mer and letting the help run the ONCE
Saws Civil Service Is Jest.
Efficiency is receiving a profound
object lesson The truth is that. be-
ginning with the chautauqua circuit
and running through the list, this ad-
ministration believes in the Jacksonian
maxim To the victors belong the
spoils.' Civil service is a jest In every
thing outside the diplomatic and con-
sular service.
II have one suggestion: Let Bryan
cancel all his chautauqua dates, pro-
the platform assemble the belligerents
and deliver to them nightly and daily
his celebrated lecture on The Prince
of Peace If II costs the audience as
much as IL does in the United States 1t
rrav end the war by financial exhans-
tion." 'ASA
Investigation a Farce"
Regarding the report made yesterday
nv a committee in Mexico which has
been investigating the deaths of Presf-
dent Madero and Vice President Suarez.
and which cleared Huerta and his fol-
lowers Of all blame, Senior Perez Romero.
brother-in-law Of the late President
Madero, today said that the investiga-
ton was farce"
From independent channels and from
all evidence that we have gathered. he
said I'VE have learned that MAJ. Fran
cisco Cardenas frequently has boasted
in many public places that he had killed
'Madero himself, yet he was never even
taken into custody.
IT personally made an investigation
after Senior Madero was killed. visiting
every house for many blocks along tho
route that the automobile was supposed
to have passed, but 1 could find no one
who heard any shots fired All our ev.
dence shows that both President Madero .
and Vice President Suarez were asSaSsi.