The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-06-13
LIBERTY AND JUSTICE
BY Savoyard.. /.

rage because the President Of the Uni
TED states refuses to manage the Mex
lean problem as the lingo would have
1t done. Every devil of em is on his
head to have Huerta kept In place and
power. and all of them are Mortified
at the suggestion of recognition of
Carranza. Huerta does not conceal
the fact that his policy is to keep 80
per cent. of the Mexican people in
state of hopeless and abject peonage
that is infinitely worse than African
slavery ever was In any of our south
ern states. According to. Huerta the
most OF the labor in Mexico has no
mission In this life but to delve in the
mine for the profit of few men who
own the country and have made Con
cessions" to adventurous foreign CAPT.
tai from which has been spawned
hundred ''rev0lutions" In Latin
America. and this good day Mexico
would enjoy political tranquility II the
dirty money'frm our country and Eu-
rope had notii been yentured to reap
dividend from revolution, war, rapine,
murder and slavery.
May. 19 John Sharp Williams read
In the United, States senate and had
printed In the Congressional Record a
letter from an official OF the United
States stationed in Mexico Id which
the writer says that 1t would cost
100000 American lives and occasion
an expenditure Of $10,Ob0.OOO. 900 to
overrun, conquer and subjugate th.,
country. Here is his close: y
lie would be cheaper to take every
refugee out of here, pay him every
dollar due him. pension him for life
and let his blatant mouth be heard at
home. as insufferable as that would
be. ather than engage In war"
Nh. William Kent. a member Of J
congress from California, expressed
an admirable sentiment in relation to
Mexico. He said he had money in
vested In a mine down there. that he |
had abandoned it till quiet Is restored, |
and that as he would not willingly
shed drop Of his own blood to make |
his property profitable, he would feel
himself coward to ask that the blood |
Of one single American soldier be |
spilled in the affair.
There Is q man, a patriot and his
are the sentiments Of a good Chris i
tian. II all the money ventured In |
Mexico were as clean as his there
would be no revolution down there.
Carranza and Villa may be very bad !
men; but neither Is as bad as Huerta
and both asserted that their mission
In politics and in war Is the abolition |
of peonage In their unhappy country.
They are agrarian, certainly, and they
may be visionary. but anarchy Will |
keep Its state In Mexico until their
dream is realized. Land for the |
landless and letters for the ignorant |
are :heir war cry. 1t ought to ap-
peal to every American.
Centuries ago fernando Cortez with |
his cruel band invaded Mexico and IL |
there was any, Justice there then 1t |
sloped to the uttermost ends OF the |
earth at his approach and has never
returned. Why mot try a little jus
ttce down there? : It cannot turn out |
worse than the despotism they have
had for hundreds or years.I was talk
ing with senator in congress who
has money invested in that country
and he declared that Mexico was not |
ready for liberty and Justice and that
/ was dreamer IL he had not been
a polite man. he would have ~, said |
what he thought, that l. was a fooit1
! When are, theYn going to, ben at for |
liberty and irn,tice3 How many, Huer-
tas will II take. to murder, liberty and
justice into, them3 When ], I,aaked those
impertinent questipns. he. was certain
that was, fool and he deignsdr rmk
no reply. Now, II I understand. vii
sons policies ha is determined, SO Tar I!
as In him lies; the power. that a, dab
OF liberty and 2 chunk tof jgatice shall
be pnrveYed for the Mexican, .,...,,,,s.S l
~ Nobody can read Eobertson's
Eharies " without q desire, to. VISIT
Spain. That potsntafe, the flrst, TO
boast that the sun never set, on his
dominions, was the most :. powefful
crowned monarch between Charlie
magne and Napoleon. HE vacated
his throne. addicted the scepter and
retired to q valley, IN, Spain that the
matter-of-fact Scotch historian goes
into poetic ecstacies ,oyef, There
are aa a thousand such vailsys tp : Nteexi- }
Ryron's apostrophe to the Orient