The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-12-04
6uTcHERY IN THE
NAME OF LIBERTY

From the Houston chronicle.

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From the Houston Chronicle.
One Of the worlds noted women. as she
her neck to the guillotine. cried
Out: AOh, Ldbertyi What crimes have
Deen committed In thy name..
petrated by Villa and his banditti In
Juarez he Is prepared to appreciate the
aespairing cry of the victim OF French
Villa did more In a few hours to weaken.
the revoluttonist cause than all the atroct-
ties reported up to hat time had done.
record. Because men Of courage and In
telligence adhered to the cause OF the gov
ernment assuming the am right to make
as he exercised, he had them shot down
as II each one had been a dog in a ditch.
Without trials-or after trials which were
g meGking. jeertng sham-he put men to
death as rernorselessiy as a butcher would
have killed a CALI. yet he is a follower md
colleague OF Carranza, who has made tho
ton to liberty and constitutional govern
ment,- and from the most intelligent and
reliable sources we are told hat wander-
ing bands of his so-called soldiers nave
committed every crime that ever stained
the calendar or that can add TO the hor-
rors OF war.
head of the government of a republic ESQ
called by the bloody road of foul, premed-
itated murder. and yet shamelessly pirates
about the pa~cifcatton of the country
which he has made a reproach upon the
civilization of the age.
The government has always been a farce
Diaz. with an his ability, was a president
elected by the people only IN name. He
was In reality an a%utocratic despot.
me saving grace n influence OF every
working, Independent home owners
class which does not exist in Mexico. At
the bottom the poems, sunk in poverty
80 deep, wretched and hopeless as to be
almost beyond belief.
With men such as Carranza and Huerta
and Villa all striving to dominate a peo-
pie utterly incapable OF intelligent partici-
patton in the affairs Of any kind Of gov
eminent, Christian statesmen like Wood
row Wilson and William ]. Bryan are
called upon to deal
Never did men face a more serious or
Chronicle recalls, their position is unique
in the annals of diplomacy. Putting all
other considerations aside. they know no
glory could come from q conquest OF
such a people. and they are seeking no
conquest.
BY virtue of a -long-existing policy there
bility such as was never before put upon
any nation. It a not with Justice to
itself or to that Christian civilization Of
experiments among all the nations Of the
earth permit Its own subjects or those of
other nations to be oppressed and robbed
full land at its very doors, bountifulIy
favored by nature and fitted for the peace
full abode Of prosperous and happy mil
lions, to be made a slaughter pen.
N How ~ to prevent further strife and butch
Mexico with our army it will mean the
sacrifice Of the lives Of many brave young
American soldiers. the life Of the very
humblest one Of which IS worth that OF
a thousand OF the ignorant flends who
robbery.
II we crush out both factions and se-
cure peace it will at best be but temper
airy, and, as soon as pressure is removed,
strife, will again, and thus we confront
g situation big with p~erplexity and
We do not want Mexico. We dc not
not want to ever appear to desire to do
SO. We do not want to send our army
strife and devastation and butchery to
s snd ana It must stop, + 1t takes blood
Civilized nations can not tolerate
Huertas and Villas. Crimes dark and re-
OF Liberty.