Williams news., 1914-12-10
Roosevelt the "1as Been" De
 clares for War

being waged in Europe, has decfar- ed for war with Mexico. It is for tunate for America that the dashing
 Teddy is not in the Chair just now. It is interesting to note just how the lion hunter sums up the case. A long article giving his views is found in the "agin thegovernment" Hearst's paper the Examiner, and very likely in the remainder of ''Wonce Ran" Hearst's periodicals. From this union of Theodore with the "wonce ran's" in their
 Agin the Government club, we take it that he has read the hand writ ing on the wall and knows that his political career is ended. His only
 solace now consists in attempting
 to be thorn in the side of those
 still holding the faith of the people. But to get back to his views on
 the Mexican question; To make a
 long story short, he says that he cause of the ana rchy in Mexico
 and particular the atrocities per
 petrated upon women there, because of the destruction of American property there, and because of our belief in our own form of govern .ment and the liberties and rights that we stand for we should enter into a conquest of Mexico and es- tablish our order there.
 Roosevelt speaks of the terrible l outrages perpetrated upon two American women and upon score
 of nuns.
 These he says are enough to
 make a mans blood boil and fill
 him with a desire to march
 upon Mexico and stop this thing. In the same issue of the Examin-
 ur occurs the etory of ten year old girl who was assaulted and then
 strangled to death, no in Mexico but in Los Angeles. Does this out rage and the hundred of other sim liar ones that occur in the United States each year, also make the Colonel's blood boil and fill him
 with desire to stop the thing2 Is there not cause here for long articles in the Examiner from the Bear hunters pen?
 Roosevelt saw no cause for sub iecting Mexico during the reign of
 Diaz and yet countless outrages too
 awful to discuss were perpetrated
 upon both men and women under
 the slavery of peonage in that day. The conditions in Mexico are terrible today, but so were they under Diaz. A different class of people may be suffering n ", but
 according to the principles of our government, the rights of the hun- blest citizen are as sacred as tn ose of the most exalted. It is doubt ful' if the Mexican people as whole are much worse of even during the present war time than they were under the reign of Diaz, there is good reason to hope that, and when peace again comes in Mexico, as it eventually will, the condition of people will be better than when the present struggle began.
 AS for the destruction of American property, is the destruction of Amer ican property in the war zone in Europe, sufficient cause for our waging war against the warning factions there? He who owns prop erty in another country runs a war risk. And finally, Roosevelt, an American, declares for the spreading of the principles of our government at the point of the sword.
 He would shoot our liberties down an unwilling peoples throat with a gatling gun. If the fact that we believe in our form of gov ernment would jus tify us in forcing it upon other nations then the monarchies of Europe will be just flied in uniting to destroy the re- publics of the earth, and to set up monarchies in their stead.
 We considered it right that the republics of South America should work out their own salvation,