Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-28
WILSON TO ANSWER CRITICS
& UPON HIS TRIP IN SPRING

after another, while people were be-
ing butchered all over Mexico, and
while the vast American interests in
that country were being confscated
and shot to pieces, and today the
Mexican chaos is worse than at any
time since Madero was assassinated.
What did It accomplish in Mexico?
Il set all Mexico af1ame against the
Americans, not only in Mexico, but
in Texas, where all along the north
bank of the Rio Grande there are ten
Mexicans for one American.
1t brought on a reign of terror all
along the Texas border, so that when
the Federal Government refused to
afford protection for our people in
their own State. I was forced to send
1900 Texas troops down there 10 give
II. Mexican bandit gangs were cross
ing the border into Texas. raiding and
terrorizing our scattered people.
Women and children were huddled
with murder and worse. Ny desk
was flooded with kilograms from
Chambers of Commerce bankers,
stocllmen, and other responsible citi-
zens, praying for protection at points
all along our 1,20o-nile frontier.
The Federal Government had only
sixty troopers at Brownsville to cover
more than two-thirds of that long
border. When I rushed the Texas
State troops down there. stationing
a company at each Of the principal
border towns. I instructed them not
to cross the river nor in any way to
violate the neutrality law, but at all
costs to protect the lives and property
OF Texas people.
Trouble with War Department.
Secretary OF War Garrison tele-
graphed me that he thought it IN
wise to have two military forces &C.
cupying the same territory under sep
arate commanders and suggested that
withdraw the State troops. I wired
him that l would withdraw the Texas
troops when he sent an equal num-
Der of United States regulars to take
their place. And I kept our men there
until he did send an equal number of
regulars to replace them at every
place where our men were stationed.
"Our government has kept England
and Germany from restoring order in
Mexico and has Itself done nothing
but contribute to disorder and law
lessness by its watching and walt
ing policy. The property interests
OF Mexico and the big American ex-
ploiters of Mexican resources have
ly. and these same interests got the
ear of our government at Washing
ton
1.-THE administrations tariff law
was pledged to lower the cost Of Nv
ing and has had the contrary effect.
The administrators antitrust laws
are bare-faced fakes, 50 far as pro-
tecting the people from trust oppres-
sion is concerned.
'HThe administration valorized $50, -
900, 900 worth of corporate securities,
owned in the North and East by a
treasury department order to ma
tional banks to lend money on listed
securities at not less than the closing
quotations Of july 80, 1914.
"The same administration, when
asked to allow the people to use a
quarter OF q billion dollars Of their
| collective credit for two or three
years to save themselves from losing
| $500. 900 600 ON their cotton crop, re-
gartied valorization as Violative of
sound government.
"The President stood In the road
and condemned the South, which
made him, to heavier loss and mere
widespread misery than II has known
In three generations He indicated
an obsolete theory OF political econ
omy. but lie mighty near ruined the
country doing It."