Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-25
HOUSE HEARS HOT
ATTACK ON VILLA
Ainey Styles Rebel Leader
"vuIgar, Ignorant, Brutal
Specimen of Humanity"
"WATCHFUL WAITING"
POLICY is SCORED
Country Has Right to Know All De-
tails, Member Declares-Word
Picture of Mexican Conditions.

Picture of Mexican Conditions.
As severe a tongue lashins as the
Presidents Mexican policy has had since
'watchfu waiting has become a by
word in Congress was administered this
afternoon in the House by Representa-
tive Ainey Of Pennsylvania, republican
member of the committee on foreign re-
lations.
The picture which MIR. Ainey drew of
Gen. Villa, who but yesterday is re-
ported as having stormed VIGOROUSLY the
federal trenches and Notifications before
Torreon. one of the keys to the federal
capital. is verbal caricature revealing
bloodthirsty land pirate. "A vulgar, ig-
norant, brutal specimen of humanity, is
a mild phrase compared to some of the
things Mr.. Ainey called Villa. In the
general storm of criticism the Pennsyi-
vania member declared that Villa has
never yet won a battle unless the odds
were all in his favor. and heavy odds at
that
The speech arose out of the resolution
presented to the House by Mr.. Alney
asking that the consular reports ana Sta.e
Department communications showing the
true state of affairs in Mexico be Trans
mitted to the House.
This resolution was presented. sald
Mr.. Ainey because of the information
coming from Mexico disclosing situation
so horrible and unspeakabie as TO shock
the world. The walls of civilized warfare
were broken down, and neither the nVes
nor sex of non-combatants We're spared oE
the ignorant, brutal and lustful looters
constituting the misnamed CONSTITUTIONAL
ist army of Gen. Villa.
Presidents Speech Criticised.
Mr.. Ainey said that the Presidents toll
speech in Congress had either been too
much or too little.
1T led one irresistibly,'' he said. to
the conclusion that the Mexican policy
of the President had not borne the full
fruitage he expected for it, but that COM
plicationS have arisen possibly involving
Mexicos relations with Germany and
Japan requiring US to have the mora
support of England, in payment for which
the American people are asked to repeal
the toll provision eXempting American
ships engaged in coastwise trade.
Whatever may be the administra ton s
reasons, they should not be hidden in a
corner. This nation cannot support ar
unknown as against known policy
When the officially ascertained facts are
withheld from them, the public will be
forced to form their conclusions from un-
official sources"
He cited quotations from previous Presi-
dents and Secretaries of State to prove
that the present administration is follow
ing the wrong course in Mexico, and then
went on to tell what he thinks about Gen.
Villa. This is it:
- Villa Excoriated.
''Inasmuch as the administration pins
it's hope on the constitutionalists, and
Gen. Carranza without Villa is as useless
as locomotive without wheels. one asks
who is Villa? Villa neither reads nor
writes, except as in Jail he learned to
write his first name, Francisco To
those who knew him as a vulgar, ignorant
and brutal specimen of humanity. the
high-sounding phrases contained in dis
paches purporting to repeat his words
carry their own refutation.
AN effort to depict him as hero,
driven to the hills by great wrongs in
f1icted upon him, have failed in the
light of truth. The glory with which an
inspired press sought to clothe him has
been stripped away by the Benton and
other cory incidents Of his career, and he
stands before the world as a hideous
helpless and quivering victims; a man
who kills for the love of killing. to whose
armored heart appeals for sympathy
never reach: a man who has no patriotic
sentiments, who had stood for lawless-
ness rather than for order: a man whose
love of war is not inspired by love of
liberty; nor love Of country, but longing
for loot. Every general of the constitu-
tionalists army. with the possible techni-
cal and nominal exception of Villa, was in
pillaging rebellion against Madero.
villa belongs to the hills. Peace has
no charms for him. Against a strong
and resolute force he would not tarry a
moment for he is as cowardly as he is
brutal and he has the weakness and
fear Of clustering bully. The success
of Villa would turn Mexico over to a
reign of terror.
AT Durango. in spite of the protest Of
the American consul the city was given
over by the constitutionalist general to
the unrestrained license of his soldiers
for twenty-four hours because it was
said to be the only way of paying them.
Little girls scarcely ten years of age and
women did not escape, and now hang
their heads in awful shame. American
women were gathered in MacDonald's s
Institute, where their husbands barri-
caded the building and fought to pre-
serve them from the rapacity of the
rebel soldiers
Mexico uttered by American citizens
whose lives have been sacrificed. whose
wives and daughters have been ravished
whose property has been confscated
has not reached the sympathetic and
responsive ear of the chief executive
In 1912 there were in Mexico $4,000
Americans engaged in every line of
legitimate employment and industry.
welcomed there under the law of that
land and treaty obligations between the
two countries. and they have remained
there under the right of protection
growing out of their American citizen
ship and the international obligation
resting upon every country with respect
to foreign residents. Among them were
farmers artisans, skilled mechanics.
cattle raisers, merchants, miners and
bankers.
"The primitive cupidity of the natives
makes it easy for the INSCRIPTIONS
Mexicans, English. Germans or Ameri-
cans to foment revolutions, and. if the
stakes are large enough, capitalize
them heavily.
There are those who claim that
villa and Carranza have been so cap
italized: that S. G. Hopkins. representa-
tive of Carranza, of the Hibbs build
ing, Washington. d. c., could. if sum-
moned before Congress. tell a story
of international intrigue by which the
illiterate villa is made the head of
army and his words
clothed in classic English according to
press dispatches; his common murders
rarbed as heroic acts of chivalry, that
the Standard Oil may advance its Mex
lean interests through him.