Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27

ilIO lIe DellSl III MS power to MAINTAIN
order and to protect the public inter-
est.
AS with Huerta. so with any man
that takes his place. Mexico is liter.
ally split to pieces by incurable fac
tions and irreconcilable guerrillas, who
can never be brought to contentment
or acceptance until the people own tho
land of Mexico
1t is the consciousness of this fact.
forced upon hating senators and timid
representatives, and the irresolute adj
ministration, which clears their vision
to the inevitable certainty of nterven-
ton and, ultimately, of annexation.
To tell the truth about it, the great
majority, both of senators and repre-
sentatives, have not trace of the War
spirit in them. The South, quick in old
en- times to resent a national reflection
and fairly pulsing with the national
spirit. has grown so stepped in mate
rialism and industrial growth that it is
almost impossible to awaken national
sentiment.
Let me apologize to the Southern
people. 1t is not they, but their repre-
sentativos. who have fallen victims Of
the disease Of material development.
1t is quite as much so with the peo-
pie of the West and of the East.
Any aspersion upon our countrE's
power or it's honor would be resented
everywhere by the people and any ap-
peal to that sentiment meets an instant
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people. But there are representatives
in both houses who appear to be posi-
lively callous to the stir of the national
spirit to the sentiment of national hon
or OF to the infringement of a great
national doctrine.
Visitors Responsible, if Killed
A senator very close to the next adj
ministration said today that it would
take the last possible necessity to in
duce him to consent to intervention in
Mexico
off the American ambassador" said
he, should be killed in Mexico | should
have to be thoroughly convinced that it
was not done by the party in power
with direct personal hostility to the
to vote for Intervention.
81 believe that the Mexican people
should be left to settle their own prob
lens and to work out their own govern
mental salvation.
If they have to slaughter and de-
stroy and shock civilization with their
murders and ASA sinaGons. that IS
their concern. not ours.
"If any OF our people or any foreign
people are killed and their property de-
stroyed, it is a responsibility which they
took when they went to Mexico and in
vested in Mexico, and they ought to ac-
cept the responsibility Of their own lack
of judgment and discretion in going
there"
Little American" Spirit.
This senator of the United States
great in power and prestige, eloquent
and learned. was thus shamelessly will
ing to destroy the whole theory Of u
nations protection to its citizens, dear
to every honorable government on
earth, and was a serene about it as if
he were discussing a cold business
proposition in which one country had
made contract with another and
ought 70 l,aen if
TT,,ia j. ,bo hlood1oes e,,irit Of t,o
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little Americans Nilch Is giving rise
to this coWardly and reasonable talk
of the abandonment or amendment of
+bo N1onroo Doctrine
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mammon worship when Is ABROAD IN
the land. The mention of this scna
tor,s name would give extraordinary
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when ne taxes d pa''
Lodge Denounces the Treason.
po il said IA his credit that Henry
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this paper. was one American senator
y,o opcnIv and stcrnly denounced tho
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Another great DchloCratlc 1clItoI