Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-03-11
UNITED STATES MUST FIGHT MEXICO
FOR HONOR, SAYS CATHOLIC PRIEST

While President Woodrow Wilson
and his secretary of state, William
Jennings Bryan, are seeking, by di-
plomacy, to prevent Intervention in
Mexico. they are at the same time
allowing the shipment of guns and
ammunition into that country which
ultimately will be used to kill sol
diers of the United States army
This is one of score of startling
statements made to the Denver Post
by the Rev. Father Thomas Fl. Ma
lone, who returned from visit to
northern Mexico. where he met and
talked with villa. the leader of the
constitutionalists.
There is none of the lingo in
Father Malone. Being orphaned
through the civil war, he knows
somewhat of the mlseries of war. BY
nature and training he is temperate
and himself one of the foremost dip
lomats OF the church he serves. he
believes only in that form of med-
alton between nations which means
the settlement of misunderstanding
without loss OF national prestige.
Therefore what Father Malone has
to say sounds like a knell to those
who would cherish peace at any cost.
"One must sympathize with Bryan
and Wilson,. said Father Malone,
for trying to prevent war-since
that Is what Intervention means But
the final solution is Intervention
This watchful, waiting policy of Wash
ington is based on a high, fine hui
man motive. but it is destined to fail
ure Every day carload lots of am
munition are rushed across the Dor
der. This is going into the hands
of the constitutionalsts. All the
| border towns are filled with refu-
kgees as far as Las Cruces and we
have and are furnishing the means
for killing our own men when the
time comes
with the Mexican revolution is
business as agriculture, mining, bank
ing is business with us
Under villa, Orozco. zapata the
Mexicans-who are part Indian-have
tasted blood and they like it, They
are today having better food, cloth
ing. more money in their pockets,
than they ever have had for every
mans property is the prey of lootcrs.
The well-to-do Mexicans in the north
have lost their ALL
III Villa were to succeed with Car
ranza's help. in reaching Mexico City
and establish his government there,
new leaders would spring up in the
north TO evoke new revolutions
there is only one way to bring peace,
maintain our dignity, preserve the
Spirit and letter of the Monroe doc
tHne. sand that is intervention
kEngland's attitude means either
that we must intervene or abandon
the pretensions of the Monroe doc
trine We or another nation must
! protect foreign citizens
Until we do this we must suffer
the contempt of every inhabitant of
Mexico-foreign or native.
Until we do this our ears will be
assailed by such blasphemous boast
ing as Federal General Salazar
shouted to the government at Wash
ngtona We have killed your cit-
zens We have destroyed their prop
erty We have ravished your women!
Yet you will not fightl' Saying this,
Salazar and his men on their way
to Fort Bliss, spat at the United
States.
That is the temper of the federals
and revolutionists. and the men who
are their leaders-Villa, Carranza-
know the alpha and omega of diplo-
macy where we have not yet learned
what the characters mean; they
know the value to them of the wait
ing -watching policy of Washington
and as long as they can force us to
wait until tomorrow war will rage,
blood will flow. property viii be de.
stroyed and the United States con
tinue a by-word and sneer to all
people"
We've had many reports of what
villa is and what he is not" said
to Father Malone and asked his opin-
ion.
Villa is bandit His people we're
bandits before him. He Is clever,
shrewd and knows his people better
than any of hn predecessors have
known them. He is loyal to one
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