The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-26
MAN WITHOUT A PARTY AL " AVS HAS
 SOME I HING TO SAY
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 washington, June 26-CongressTnan William Kent, of Cahfornda, appears to belong to no party in particular. but whenever he rises in his place on the door of the House of Representa- fYves to speak, he invariably says something worth while
 HeS said something worth while on the Mexican situation, which ougnt lo be read by all those who are insisting upon war, whether it can be averted
 fsVVe have to decide. said MT. Kent whether we feel 1t incumbent on us to go into Mexico and to declare war number, who cannot understand us any more than we can understand them, and to fight through a war to it's indefinitely distant conclusion.
 eThese people are barbaric We ought to know that They are so per cent Indian. The wars among them selves have been cruel; they shoot prisoners as a matter of course and torture as a matter of course. So=5 called civilization has been cruel to them they are only gentle when kind l,s and sylnpathetica1ly treated
 'fWithin the last ten years know of my own Knowledge and can give the names of a new type of Americans that have been going to Mexico men who have sympathy with the common people, who nave rrealeQ Ine1n as 1Au- man beings. These men have shown the honest. hardworking people of Mexico that ahead of them was op- portunfty for food, clothing and most of all, for their children to have a better chance than they had. To my own Knowledge thesee common people have responded to this appeal and have worked faithfully, so that their children might be educated and become supporting and self-re- specting.
 we have been sending there mining ana civ1l-engin eers and railroad con tractors and other producers of things decent people, who were not there to exploit or rob the Mexicans. We have sent men who have realized that these backward folk, who are living in a fifteenth century, of Indian and yes, and cruel though they are, are. after all, good, honest, kindly, human beings, entitled to a chance and wor- thy of it.
 ''I could bring many men here who could tell of their own Knowledge that these common Mexicans whom we pro- pose to kill are the kindest-hearted Ppeople in the world could tell of their fortitude, their boundless hospitality; could tell of the antecedent causes Of their backwardness. If you believe that we can send an army of men into Mexico that will so comport itself that the survivors of these people will have a better understanding of the al- truistic impulses of this country, such impulses having been shot into them, I think yau are not thinking
 "If we can have ten years more of peace, I believe the Mexicans will come to be friendly with us. I cannot tol- crate the thought of war with these people looked at either from our view point or theirs. Thousands of our soldiers would be killed by people fully armed, incompetent, in many warlilxe ways but a people in a fight ing state Of mind.
 eff we fight, it will be against a people who do not know civilized meth ods of war; and who can blame them for not unders tandine the absurd re fnements of murder? I know what such war would mean, the 50 years, the 100 years, the 150 years of misun- derstanding and bitterness.
 If those on this side of the line who are chiefly plotting. planning and fomenting war against this people were free of lust of profit and land, we should merely call them senseless; we could not call them ghouls."
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