Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-04-23
We WILL NOW HAVE - -
A Feu Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON

ere in Mexico than in the Balkans where the has
been far worse or in Russia whose governmental unhu
mainly has shocked the world for century The differ
ence does not lie in ethics but in SIZE
Under the fiction that attacking only Huerta
are simply uniting all the warning factions Of Mexico
against us. This is but natural Our president asked
Congress forget political differences and unite behind
him in this move by what logic do expect Mexico
to do less? Should any rebel leader line up with the
Americans be would lose his following certainly and pos
siby his head.
So we cannot joke ourselves into thinking that the
is to be only with Huerta; it to be against united
Mexico And would be but harng ourselves to think
that will be but outing 1t will take million
men and thousand million dollars to whip Mexico, if
Mexico fights back. Our men, unused to and the
hardshps Of the field in strange country and far from
friends and supplies, will be faced by veterans who have
learned through years of hell fire, to sleep amid
bursting Shells who among friends, in their own land
and familiar in that mountain country with every rock
big enough to hide behind.
But if no other countrynterferes we can win in the
end But what victory! We will stand with one foot
upon the neck Of bleeding Mexico while the ground is
strewn about with manged human bodes with discovered
legs and arms scattered entras gouged out eyes The
grass God made beautifully green will be dyed by
hdeous red and the sum- whose glory was designed to
and cheer u.s. will be made to work at the helish
task Of fastening the rottng Of things that once were
images of their Creator And in countless homes there will
be weeping widows, and Mothers and children. These
after ALL will pay the price of the countrys "honor
nations "honor will be poor substitute to fill the vacant
place at the table, the aching emptiness OF the heart For
weary after years there will be this emptiness, and in
loneliness the widow will go down into the shadow, with
to lean upon, hand to wipe away her tears And
the orphaned children whose country has taken away
their fathers guiding hand in the formative years of their
life shall that country condemn them if they later show
the Ill effects Of fatherless upbringing9
But you day our flag has been nsulted and we must
throw dynamite and grind hell out of machine guns and
tear legs and arms and enras from human beings gouge
out their eyes, make widows and children wall until
that insult is avenged. O. ye followers of Christ who
said: "Forgve seventy times seven!'' Just how much
havoc must yoqrwreak to make yengeance7 How much
human blood will you require in which to drown your in
suit Did the whom you will KILL insult your flag
Or the child that you will from it's frightened cling
ing hold at her breast? And would you your sword
through them and splash their blood about if their hus
band nsued you upon the street. or even in your own
home?
But you say the flag means more 50 much more
more than reason and argument and righteousness and
twenty centuries of Christian teaching You think
that's your opinont isntit has been given you ready
made by your rulers They don't believe it themselves
They have set Of opinions which they keep for them
selves, and another and differing set which they pass or
to you.
Neither the president nor secretary of state, no1
army navy congress resented the insult to the
flag in Colorado when militia officers wrenched the Amer
lean flag from miners marching wife, tore it to pieces
and stamped the pieces in the mud of the road Huerts
did not do so bad as that.
No government official resented the insult to the FLAG
when Deputy Marshal Williams and coal company thugs
under the instructions of Judge Dayton raided the camp
at Golfers and drove them out from under the protection
OF the United States flag. Huerta did not do so bad
that.
No special message sent to congress avenge the
insults which the copper mine owners OF Michigan put
upon the flag when they killed AZ little children that
Christmas eve! Nor when camps Of strikers in West
Virginia last year and in Colorado this week,
derously raded, and their American flags nbboned with
bulets Huerta did not do SO bad as that!
You see it all depends These insults to the flag at
home mean much to you because they direct attacks
upon your liberties while the Tampico incident could not
possibly be construed Yet with these incidents that
mean so much to your officials keep SILENT while with
this that means so little they have grown rampageous
petuae your savsh submission here home want inter
vention in Mexico The Of stocks and bonds in