Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-10

o"4 PIesiueht- MeNlco accepted that
 invitation, acted on it, and against
 every precedent of international law asalnst every dictate of justice asalnst every sentiment of modern cf,y. | iilzation, that republic proceeded to urlVe our people like flocks of sheer rom their homes, their business ana thelr last dollar of hard earned nron. sfty' The homes they left behird were destroyed, their crops ruined and pehhIless. hungry. and almost naked 1 they stood on their native soil. tbe oh, Jects or and the slight benefeiaries or
 our governments charity. These peo. ple hesded no charity from our gov ! Crhment; they deserved and should
 nave hso us protection. No better cit.
 lzeLshlp ever left our land or returned 'o lt under such degradation.
 since The advent of Madero and the ! usual revolution attending anv ao. cession to power in that country orr cluzens have been appealing to tha ! executive branch of our goyernnent ! TOT that protection guaranteed bv | every civilized nation 10 it's citizans i but their cry has been unheeded and as the Senator from Massachusatts l Mir Lodgel has >veu said .tbare has been lack Of even any sorf of l energetic diplomacy.
 1 mat cur government has cften re
 quested the Mexicans to cease their asEressions has been the most war hNe' bristling, dangerous statemen, ] yet made, so far as l have been able | 10 hear or see l am not now criticisine { th2 present administration. for if has 1 inherited these difficulties ana rnis. takes; but I make bold to suggest , that the time has come for energati,. and. If need be, drastic measures t,, [ secure the lives and property ano peace of our people in Mexico
 The democratic party long ago i wrote glorious history 1T defense nj American citizenship I confess to 7. l pridetul love of the old doctrine-tbe | AmeTi1an historic doctrsne-that a ! peaceIul American citizen, obeyi.lg me law Ct the land where he is so- ] burning, has a right to exbect and ! VIII receive from his home govern ! hleht all proper protection, regardless ! or cost or Consequences.
 ! A government unwilling ts % this ] Tar deserves the censure of it's citi. | lehs rather than the love. the pride and the devotion otherwise so eener- : ouSly accorded.
 MT President, I hav9 no feeling of antipathy against Mexico have ras. | son for kindly feeling toward that mn i happy land, for many of it's peopIe are ! personal friends of mine. | wish if mo { HaIIn; put on the contrary, desire to
 see ana welcome it's peace and happi- l ness. Modern civilization. however de
 Ioands not only of Mexico. but of all ! uaJionS, that needless and brutal and | bloody warfare must cease within 1 their borders. Civilization demands 1 that Mexico should be paCified that a 1 clFlilzed government should be perma. I Lentiy established there. And I he. ! HeFe 1t can be done without our in ! JerFentiun, which the Senator fror 1 "corgla MT BacOnD seems SC much i 10 fear or dread. In my judgment this l can be accomplished bv now. and at once, correcting the mistakes made bv 1 the Taft administration
 | The Romero revolution against Diaz
 vas aided by that administration in
 that 1t permitted the alleged rebels to l Dly cohiraband of war supplies and
 whatever else they saw fit to pur. | chase, free from any restraint or er- i caTgo imposed by our government 1 when the revolution against Madero 1 broke out, all at once our governme5t l stood behind him and refused to ner.
 mt any supplies-cven Of bread and ! meat-to be purchased by the revoIu. 1 ticnists: these men, in large numbers l Icing the very men that fought in the l MaHrwr 1 a2aInst him even as they and he had ] rehelled against Diaz.
 believe that if the Taft administra-
 tlon had acted in the rebellion against
 ttcInero as it acted in Romero's rebel.
 non against Diaz not one life in twen-
 ty Of peaceful American cftizers ! would have been lost nor one dollar
 ID the hundred of their property de. | stroyed. But, be that as 1t may. we
 arc confronted by great duties anJ i equally great responsibilities at this
 very minute, responsibilities which 1 must be met with frmness and ius- tice. or even greater and more fatGfuI l problems will force themselves on us
 for more tragic solution. If we ! longer dally-I foTbear. as I fear to l lock OF the unfolding drama. The ! tune in utter fulluess has come for .a
 warning to Mexico, couched in no mn. | certain terms, directed to the iDhabi.
 tants Of that country under wbatso-
 ever leaders they act, regulars or rev. l oiutionists, that no further hand shah 1 be laid in oppression on any peaceful | citizen Of this republic abiding in their
 land, nor shall his property be taken 1 from him except at the peril Of our
 national displeasuTe. which will in
 yClye at last the decree of full satis- | faction from the aggressor. Ionr. ago
 such warning should have been given
 lf unheaded then, it's penalties should
 have been enforced. It is a rotton. de | cayed Amcrlcanism that would excuse
 its failure of proper protection to it's | citizens under the easy plea that they had no business in Mexico. that tbey only went there to better their own ] condition, and that they should flee | and leave all behind them when so 1 directed. The Pilgrims landed on | Plymouth Rock Lo improve their con | diticn. Every man not born in the l Western States went there for the | same purpose. Every man Of us has l a right to go when and where he II pleases for the same purpose, unless