The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1914-06-04
Statesman Nonsense.
fFrom E. W. Howes' Monthly.]

statesman NOllScllSC.
From E. w. Howes' Monthly.J
In his message to congress concerning
the Mexican situation, President Wilson
says: ''The people of Mexico are entitled
to settle their own domestic affairs IN
their own way, and we sincerely desire
to respect their rights.
Who does not know that this is States
man Nonsense?
In settling their own domestic affairs
in their own way, the people of Mexico
have been guilty of assassination, rape,
wholesale murder, and robbery on
tremendous scale. They have destroyed
millions of dollars worth of property be-
longing to citizens of this and other coun-
tries. They have destroyed railroads
and factories, and beggared the poor as
well as the rich. They have placed
robber chief in command of their armies,
and nine out of ten of the men now prom
inent in Mexican affairs are scOundrels.
Finally, all this degradation and de-
struction was brought about as protest
against the only decent government the
Mexicans ever had.
Still, our leading Statesman says the
decent people of the United States .sin-
cerely desire to respect the right of the
Mexicans to settle their own domestic
affairs in their own way" and that 1--WE
have deep friendship" for them.
We have no deep friendship for the
Mexicans, and never have had. They
have different instincts and are of diff
ferent color; they are lazier, uglier, more
worthless. ard have less sense. In pro-
portion to population, there are more
drunkards among them; more loafers.
more liars; they outclass US in no way
except as revolutionists.
! point with pride to a citizen of my
State, Senator Joseph L. Bristow, who
said at Washington, on the 18th of April,
1914:
Making war on the Mexican people
because a man the president calls
bandit refuses to apologize, is idiotic. -
| No doubt Bristow was provoked by the
frequency with which the newspapers
described Secretary Bryan hurrying to
the golf field to see President Wilson,
and interrupting the game to discuss the
gravity of the Mexican situation.
Charge O'Shaughnessy has greatly
annoyed me; possibly he annoyed Senator
Bristow, and caused him to boldly declare
the truth.
Then there is that man Tumulty, who
so frequently gets into'the news without
sufficient excuse. He is as annoying as
the flying machine men who have offered
their services to the government in this
unnecessary crisis.
In few days, no doubt some one will
say. my country, right or wrong,
and possibly this will cause Senator
Bristow to explode again. There never
was more conspicuous example of a
fool saying than: "My country, right
or wrong" II your country is wrong,
don't follow it into foolish war. Help
straghten it out; get right with fairness
and common sense.
Before we become hopelessly infamed
over the war excitement, let it be re-
membered what it is all about:
A party of our sailors landed at
wharf where the Mexicans had proho
tied landing, and q foolish police officer
arrested them. The sailors were soon
released, and The otficious police officer
was properly reprimanded by the Mexl-
can authorities. When President Huerta
heard Of the incident, ne repeatedly ex-
pressed regret to our representative In
the City of Mexico. Then a hot-headed
captain of an American warship den and
ed that Huerta salute the American flag,
and President Wilson stood by him.
Huerta finally agreed to do this, but
there was sore pickering IS to the pre-
else manner of the salute, This Dicker-
ing was gong on when we sent twenty
or more huge battleShips to Vera Cruz,
although the Mexican navy consists of a
tub armed with double barreled shot
gun.
While President Wilson was protest.
ing that the people of tie United States
would never fight the Mexican people,
and that we desired to help them, We
were guilty OF a fragrant act of war, by
sending landing party ashore and seiz-
ing the custom house. The Mexican
| officer in charge could not avoid resisting,
and there was fight in which many
were killed ard wounded. Our battle
ships sheled Vera Cruz during the
melee.
The Secretary of War wrote to the
parents of the young men killed In the
attack on Vera Cruz, and said
This mornings dispatches conveying
the distressing news that your son was
in the first line to give his life for his
country, saddens all America.
The young men didn't give their lives
for their country. They lost their lives
because their superior officers lacked
judgment and sense. The young men
lost their lives, to speak the plain truth,
because of a foolish and unnecessary
riot.
General Villa said recently: ''The
Americans have stood by me when l
needed friends"
In the history of war doubt if there
can be found man of worse deeds and
character than Villa. Yet he boasts
that we are his friends.
Huerta is an assassin, but he is saint
compared with Villa.