The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1915-01-07

lars to replace them at every place
where our men We're stationed
l understand they had everything
prepared at Washington to have mo
indicted by federal grand jury ana
put in a federal prison, on the assumD-
ton that | meant to invade Mexico.
a palpable absurdity, which only men
utterly ignorant of the situation could
have entertained, 1t is a fact, which
the country does not know that when
our troops arrived III Brownsville, the
Mexican commander at Matamoras
across the river, offered to surrender
that city to the commander of the
troops of the United States cavalry
men The commander at Matamoras
evidently believed the Texas troops
meant to take his city, and thought
the United States troops were more
friendly than the Texans. The Wash
ington conception of our business on
the border was as ridiculous as that of
the Mexican commander
Calls 1t Encouraging Bandits
Wilson and Bryan have stood by,
encouraging one gang of bandits after
'another, while people were being but
chered all over Mexico, while the vast
American interests in that country
were being confiscated and shot to
pieces, and today the Mexican chaos
is worse than at any time since Ma
dero was assassinated Villa Is the
dictator of the country, and | under
Fstand that all he wants is to be chief
of police of the city Of Mexico, with
control of the gambling concessions in
1.-The city Of Mexico and Juarez.
Our government has kept England
and Germany from restoring order in
Mexico, and has itself done nothing
but contribute to the disorder and
lawlessness by its yacillating watch
ing and waiting" policy-if it can be
called policy. The property interests
of Mexico and the big American ex-
ploiters of Mexican resources have got
control Of the situation absolutely,
and these same interests have got the
cdr VI buI government dl washing lOu.
Antitrust Laws Fake.
The administration antitrust law
are barefaced fakes, so far as pro-
tecting the people from trust oppres-
nobody else SO well as they do the
Standard Oil, the Steel and other great
trusts.
| believed at first that the fede"'
tration's one meritorious achievement,
but national bankers tell me it is go
ing to prove failure. The control Of
the system in practice, appears to rest
in New York city instead of in Wash
ington.
| am fully convinced the national
election of 1916 will end the democrat
| ic regime. The policies of the demo-
wholly failed, either to curb monop-
olies or to lower the cost of living for
the peple and they have materially
contributed to deprive millions of wage
col vi IIt ehdIlilill'-
tration valorized $4,000, 100000 worth
lof corporate securities owned in the
north and east by a treasury depart
ment order to national banks to loan
than the closing quotations of July
80, 1914.
But the same administration, when
asked how to allow the people to use
collective credit for two or three years
to save them from losing $5000OO,OOO
on their cotton crop, regarded valori-
zation as violative of sound govern
ment
Mighty Near Ruined the Country.
The president stood In the road and
condemned the south, which made him,
to heavier loss and more widespread
misery than it has known in three gen
erations He indicated an obsolete
theory of political economy, but he
mighty near ruined the country doing
1t.
! raised among my personal frien1s
in Texas more than $4,000 for the
Wilson campaign fund, and the only
favor / asked of him was that he ap-
point men who would aid the Texas
state government to enforce law ana
order along the Mexican border. IL
was my earnest desire to assist in ma
king the democratic national admin
istration success. but / would not
sacrifice the honor of my state nor the
welfare of her people to win the favor
of any administration.
At no time have I failed to get
courteous treatment from the leaders
of the Mexican revolution / sympa-
thize with the Mexican people, but
also sympathize with Americans VINO
have property rights in Mexico that
ought to nave been protected.