Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-16
ATTACKED
DURING SPEECH
IN HOUSE

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Declaring
that Colonel Bryan's administration
or the State Department makes Amer
lea Joke in the eyes of the world
Representative Gillett, of Massachu-
sets, in u speech in the House to-day
delivered the most bitter attack vet
made upon Mr., Bryans conduct of
his office.
IT think the policy or lack of policy
or the State Department is one of the
most censurable features of the Ad-
ministration," said he. Il don't sup
pose our Secretary of State has any
special familiarity with his new du-
ties, although that did not prevent
him from discharging many of the
trained and skillful employees in his
office and filling their places with
men whose claims are based on po-
Iltical service and obligation.
The country needed more that he
should read international law than de-
liver chautauqua lectures. With his
salary of ST., 500 and the $4,000 in
come from the large accumulation
which he admits, he can live quite
Hospitality and save a little. | like to
think his real motive for the lectures
was a less sordid one.
An Interesting Episode.
He would undoubtedly be prodigi-
ously useful in a place where he fitted.
/ think the episode which best eX-
emplifies his administration is where
he arranged that the reluctant repre-
sentatives of foreign powers should
pass by him and address him in formal
procession while a cinematograph
preserved the spectacle for the delec-
tation of American audiences and the
glorification of Mr.. Bryan. 1t is not
pleasant to feel that the cultivated
opinion of the world is laughing at
us; that to their eyes these episodes
and our subjecting our irregular
emissaries to constant and unresent-
ed affront to both parties in Mexico
where they have been flouted and
outmaneuvered and made ridiculous
at every turn create a humiliatiug
circumstance"
Gillett declared the President had
been wholly inconsistent in the case
of China as opposed to his late at
titude toward Mexico.
81 greatly fear" said he, that the
State Departments lack of action all
lowed affairs to drift to that condition
where ultimate Intervention would be
the only possible result of our attj-
tude. I think myself that instead of
waiting six months before outlining
any policy we ought to have followed
the spot and recognized the admin
istration of Huerta."
He said Huerta's violent rist to
power made him the strongest man"
in Mexico. and the one most likely
TO establish peace.
Men of Iron Needed
1T was natural and Commendab!e
to abhor the crime of Huerta,' he
added, but it may be better for tho
United States and even for Mexico
that a presidency won by foul means
should be recognized than that thou
sands of the youths of our country
should leave their bones to bleach
in the mountains of Mexico or that
bandits and plunderers should bring
anarchy into ever province and set
back for generations the tranquil dc
velopment of peace.
"a military despotism apparently
is the only government with which
Mexicans will be content. They de-
mand men of blood and iron to pre-
serve ord er If we had used Huerta
months ago as the other great pow
ers and our Ambassador advised he
probably would not be ruling over an
orderly country where Americans
were not obliged to sacrifice their
property or their lives in obedience
to an order from their own Govern
ment."