The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-08-13
ATROCITIES ON
AMERICANS TOLD
In the Senate's Mexican
Report.
.ATALE REEKING WITH HORROS
And Said To Be without Par.
allel In History of
This Country.
sLIGHTER AFFRONTs AVENGED

washington, ID. c., Aug. ia
tale reeking with shame and horror,
revolving accounts of attacks on
Americans, men murdered protect
ing their families, women attacked
and outraged, Americans robbed OF
their all. including the clothes on
their backs, set down from their
horses half naked in the burning
desert sands miles from water,
peaceful communities robbed and
pillaged by drunken bands of half
breed, Mcxicans, Americans singled
out from other foreigners for the
vilest insults, and damage to Amer
lean property from Mexican robbery
and vandalism amounting to mil
lions of dollars-this is the terrible
story told in the secret Mexican re-
port to the Foreign Relations Com
mittee of the Senate, document
which is receiving the eravest con-
sideration in the Senate. and now
is made public for the first tine.
There are nearly 900 printed
pages of this amazing revelation, in
the aggregate a series of affronts
and outrages perpetrated upon
Americans without parallel in the
history of this nation.
The United States has declared
war to avenge slighter grievances.
No historian recording turbulent
times leading up to the hOstilities
of past history ever wrote such a
record OF insult to- Americanism as
is contained in this Senate docu-
ment.
The record reveals picture of
millions of ragged, ignorant half
breeds consciously turning against
Americans on the theory impaired
to them by their leaders that the
United States will not protect its
citizens, who are. therefore. fair
game for the greed. rapacity and
worst instincts of a population Of
bloodthirsty poems.
The report comprises the secret
testimony of hundreds of witnesses
heard by the Special Investigating
Committee sent by the Senate to
the Mexican border last fall. 1t is
the report which Senator William
Alden Smith, of Michigan, Chair
man of the subcommittee which
took the testimony, is threatening to
reveal on the floor of the Senate to
awaken the American people to the
nature of the atrocities which are
being put upon American citizens
in Mexico.
While acts described in the doc
ument took place a year ago, Sena-
tor Smith declares that conditions
now are even worse than they were
then, and that the horrors are gain
ing in number.
What effect the whole House con-
ference with the members of the
Foreign Relations Committee will
have on Senator Smiths recent de-
termination to bring out the chief
facts in the report in a speech. is
not known.
The President has requested that
there be no more debate on Mexi-
co In the Senate. On the other
hand, the White House has declar-
ed continuation of the Taft poll
cy to keep hands Off in Mexico.
In the report witness after wit
ness declared his resentment
against such policy. blaming the
timorous attitude Of the American
State Department for most of the
outrages.
While witnesses before the COM
mittee brought reports of numerous
killed. there were detail
ed accounts of the staying OF but
two. Both cases. however. were of
a particularly revolving sort.