Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-22
EXPED|n0NARY FORCE
INTO MEXICO URGED
Representative Campbell for 1nterna'
tional Intervention and Disre-
gard of Monroe Doctrine.


Declaring that if necessary the Monroe
doctrine should be set aside. Representa-
tive Philip Pitt Campbell of Kansas last
night urged that the great powers Of the
world be called in to aid in the solution
Of the Mexican problem. The assertion
was made during an address given at the
annual banquet of the Washington
Alumni Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fra
ternity at the University Club.
God help us to see the right" said the
speaker, land rise above the fool notion
that because, way back in 1S49, policy
was announced We must stick to its ira
ditions'
Mr.. Campbell had been speaking OF
the responsibilities Of the individual
when he turned to the subject Of Mexico.
saying it was a subject that needed the
best thought and judgment of every
American.
Wants No American Hurt.
"If things keep on as has been the
trend of things for the last few months
we shall have to- offer the lives Of some
of our pest young men for a cause to
which l would not give a single life
! shall not vote to give the life of a
single American boy for all of old Mexico
do not believe that in this day and
enlightened age the American people
should sacrifice thousands Of people ano
millions of money to avenge the life OF
British subject or German subject
even though he be killed by a Mexican
outlaw.
Let me make a suggestion. I would
set aside. II 1t were necessary to do so
that ancient document, now almost a
century old. l would say to all coun.
", he oR r4A
go into Mexico and put an end to the
murder Of men and women: let us stop
Mexicans from killing Mexicans; let US
go In and establish peace
iii stand by the President of the
United States in his watchful, waiting
policy until the crack of doom. il that
means that no American soldiers IRE
to be sent across the American border
into Mexico. II America INTERVIEWED
every faction in Mexico would unite
against America 1t would be war in
which the United. States would be sue
cessful, but thousands of our young
men and millions of dollars of our
money would have to be spent to do it
am not willing to sacrifice one life
or one dollar.
"On the other hand, II all the coun-
tries go into Mexico no resistance will
be found. and order wouia be estab-
lished. The only sacrifice would be the
Monroe doctrine. When that document
mean any monarchy should be estab-
lished here But now the other govern
ments of the world are nearly as repre-
sentative as they are here.
pie of a republic; they are not the peo-
Die Of a cons. itutional government
understand that Villa cannot. read OF
write, and he represents about 80 per
cent Of the Mexican Mex an people ~, ,
dent for raising the embargo on arms,
he said at another point. II believe ir
every step the President has taken
But IL it becomes necessary for US te
go into Mexico alone these arms viii
be used against the United States"
Prior to Representative CampbelFi
address jeremiah Steetser Ferguson
spoke He prophesied that the college
fraternity in the future would hav,
to have other reasons for its existence
rather than mere fraternalism. HI
said the fraternitfes were having
greater educational connections.
Representative James Harry Coving
ton of Indiana presided. Prof. William
L. Prince. dean of Richmond College
tie. Wash. and DIR. Arthur H. McCray
were speakers.
The committee in charge consisted
Of James A. White, jr., chairman; DR.
ton. DR.. George Tully Vaughan, Charles
W. Holmes. J. Eris Powell, Carleton
Bates, Dr. J. Rozier Bisss, Royal :.
jerks, Claude H. Birdseye. J. w. T
Duvel. Goodwin II. Williams, C. W
Washburn an Garland P. Robinson
List Of Dinner Guests.
Those present were Henry Gannett
John H. Renshawe. Hersey Munroe. A. B
Searle, S. A. Aplin, Charles c. Bassett
S. S. Gannett, E. NJ. Douglas, R. C. Nc.
Kinney, Merrill Hackett, A. E. Murlin
Charles E. Cooke, Frank Tweedy, George
T. Hawkins E. c. Barnard. ]. H. Jen.
nings, Van II. Manning. William H. Her
ron. w. L. Miller, Frank Sutton, C. w
Goodlove, Robert Muldrow, William H
Griffin. Duncan flanagan, r. A. Farmer
r. B. Marshall. James Mccormick, Albert
]. M. Whitman, ]. r. E lis, T. G. Gerdine,
John Howard Allen, Wallace Anterior
Albert Adgate Bailey, William Henri,
Beard: Thomas Howard Beckett, Aubrey
Russell Bowles. jr.. Henry Thurman
Burt. Dean Caldwell, Frederick Nea
Carr. Spry Owen Clayton, Claude Boni.
FAINT Cooksey, Edgar Pasqual Copeland
Eugene Surry DesPortes. Cleon Orestes
Dodge, Richard Bryant Dole, Menart
Vile Hunter Dunn. Clarence Frederic
Eberly, David Quin Eggleston, Merton
Alden English. William Cross Ferguson
Fay Field. Alfred Chester Father, Fred
erick Matthew Fogle, Julian Briscoe Gas
saway. Thomas Hail Gatlin, jr.. Reginald
Wtckliffe Geare, William Meade Hallam
Roy John Hardstaff. Ernest Edward
Heinrich. Hastings Brown Hopkins. Rich
ard Washburn Hynson. Thomas Cary
johnson, Horace Stuart Johnston. Johr
Walter Keener. Anthony Joseph Lam
"a, Harry Pike Letton. Stuart, Lewis
albert Vincent Llufrio. Joseph. Aloysius
Lynch, Daniel Stephen Mccarthy. John
Stafford Mcdowell. Spencer Rice Nc
Master, Elmon Adams Miller, Henry
Grady Miller. Daniel Shuford Murph
Thomas Drinkard Newell. Charles La
tnrop Parsons. BATHURST Daingerfield
Peachy. jr., Clarence Pitt. Jerome T.
quick, Clyde Reed. Stephen DIN Richey,
horace Dodge Rouzer, Ira Alonza Rowl-
son, Frank Keven Ryan. Alfred Francis
William Schmidt. George Tarplit Sharpe,
Ralph Rhodes Shropshire. William Garry
Slusher, Breedlove Smith, Myron Au-
gustus Smith. William Martin Smith.
Thomas ,Peachy Spencer. Daingerfield
Blan, Spencer. John Blair Spencer,
Ernest X. Stratton. Duncan Stuart, Will
liam Stuart. Mark Thistlewait, Edward
Ross Tiley, Horace Towner. George
Douglas Walters. Walter Adgate War
field, r. .ert Mason Wilhelm. Frederick
Davis Woods, Clarence Edward Wright
and Joseph Claiborn Zirkle.