Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-05-01

Ave years old, who win stop at moth
ing.
"zapata viii have to be killed. That
will be the only way he can be dealt
with. / have ridden on trains with
him many times. He is a robber ban
dit of the worst type. although if you
do not antagonize him he will not
bother you.
'There will never be union of the
forces of uuerta, Carranza and Ia
pata. That's out of the question.
Each band will fight this country tc
the last ditch.
"The better class of MeXicans-
those whose haciendas and property
have been torn from them by the
robbers-welcome Intervention. It Ia
only the poems, or the poor working
people, who are fighting, and they are
so ignorant that they do not know
who they are fighting for The Mexi-
cans won't stand up and fight. They
are treacherous, deceptive and sneaky.
They are all cowards-and their word
is no good.
Routes to Mexico City.
Washington.-If invasion of Mex
\ leo should be ordered, it is believed
Mexico City again will be the chief
goal OF the American troops, as in the
| former war with Mexico, and Vera
Cruz will be the starting point
/ There are two routes from Vera
| Cruz to Mexico City. One is the ia
!apa route, taken by General Scott in
his advance in the former war. The
other is the Orizaba route, used by
| the French when Maximilian invaded
Mexico
The Jalapa route has a narrow
gauge railroad from Vera Cruz to
mately 800 miles. The Orizaba route
has standard-gauge railroad and is
$50 miles long.
There is only a small force of fed
erals in Vera Cruz today, under Gen
eral Mas.
| The Mexican army hardly would be
able to withstand the march of the
Americans from Vera Cruz to Mexico
| City by either route, according to high
military officials here. The largest
number of men Huerta could handle
would be about 10000.
The march probably would be fea-
tured by a number of engagements,
each one marking further advance
by the Americans.
In the fighting at Vera Cruz, in the
center Of the inner harbor San Juan
! de Uloa, an ancient stone fortress,
flew the Mexican flag throughout the
attack Captain Stickney of the Prai-
rie sent word to the commandant OF
San Juan de Uloa that he would blow
him to pieces with the Prairie's guns
if he opened fire against the Ameri-
! cans, but that otherwise he would not
be disturbed. The commandant re
| piled that he would answer with his
cannon IL fired Oh, but that he would
not begin hosulities.
Fired on Tars at Tampico.
/ Galveston, Tex-American sailors
were fired upon by a Mexican gunboat
at Tampico on two or three different
\ occasions, and once German and Eng
! lish sailors were fired upon, according
to Chief Engineer Murray of the
steamer Herbert G. Wylie, which ar
rived here today from Tampico.
| Murray said he had seen the Mexi-
can gunboat Vera Cruz take pot
shots" at cutters flying the United
States flag. He said on one occasion
| cutters from an American saan-of-war
and from German and English boats
went ashore without their flags fly
ing, their occupants landing and start
| ing afoot toward the village of Dona
Cecilia. The Vera Cruz dropped a
shell near them.
Occupants of all three boats then
hurried back to the water front, where
they hoisted their flags in their re-
spective boats, and there was no more
firing.
"No Desire for Conquest"
New William Bayard Hale,
/ President Wilson'S s unofficial investiga
4 tor of affairs in Mexico, has contrib
uted to the Worlds Work an article
unfolding the presidents Mexican pol
icy and pointing out an important de-
| velopment in the character of Ameri-
can diplomacy. This, he explains, is
an Interpretation of the Monroe doc
of the United States only as an eff
fective source of moral inspiration
1 over the nations of Central America
and the West Indies.
"Our Moral Empire in America is
the title of the article. Discussing the
possibility of Intervention in Mexico
1 (the article was written before the
fleet was ordered to Tampico), DR..
Hale says:
IAN American army would have no
physical difficulty in getting back out
of Mexico; nobody would use it up
before it got away; the difficulty would
be that greed and false sense of ma
tional hoaor would do their utmost to
keep US there permanently in occupa-
tion."
If armed Intervention should be
forced upon the government, he con-
tinues:
Il predict that our forces will be
ordered home just as soon as constitu-
tional order has been restored, and
that, SO far as the power and influence
of President Wilson can bring it to
pass, nothing in the nature Of an in
demnity, either in money or land, will
! be asked or will be accepted.