The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-04-01
VILLA THE PATRIOT.

We take the following from Savo-
yards letter to his syndicate Of pa
pers, dealing with Senator Lodges
attack in the Senate upon President
Wilson's Mexican policy:
The Hon. Lodge is fond of history.
Has he ever heard of land that got
liberty except by the process now
employed in Mexico? Liberty as
we'll as despotism is the child Of the
sword. Holland was eighty years
of nearly constant war getting her
| liberty. The scenes in Mexico are
tame compared with the Terror in
France If there ever was man in
Switzerland Of the name Of Tell.
who did the deeds that are told of
Tell, that hero was cast precisely in
the mold that Villa came from.
Lodge speaks with horror of Villa.
So do all the other Republican states
men who advocate peonage in Mexi
co. Admit the exaggerations and
the lies that yellow newspapers and
yellow statesmen have delivered
themselves Of about this man and
and he is no worse than Robert
Bruce, hero of Scotland, who with
his own dagger committed brutal
murder, the blood of his victim
making crimson the altar of God.
But I'll give you a stronger case.
Martin Schenk was hero who help,
ed to wrest from Spain the liberty
of his country. All accounts agree
that he was the most savage warrior
of even that ruthless age. He loved
to shed blood. He sacked cities
He spared neither age, nor sex, nor
condition. He was called the man
who never smiled. The torch was
one Of his instruments Of war-this
man is hero in the story Of Hol
land, and there is not Senator iI
our Congress who would not Leap
with pride at the discovery that he
is direct lineal descendant of Mar
tin Schenk, the monster.
Compared with Schenk, Villa is ;
amb, a dove, and ages yet to be ;
free and prosperous people in the
Constitutional Republic Of Mexico
will look on Villa as the Englishmal
en- Hampden. as the Scotchman OF
Bruce, as the Italian on Garibaldi
as the American on Washington.
Whenever and wherever libert
has q task to do strong man spring
! ~ FOR the job There never was
mua ingIorious Milton, nor a Cron
well guiltess of his countrys blood
When hero is born his task will b
pr )vided, and Villas task is to de
stcoy peonage in the native land a
tn. point Of the hayonet.
All the Republican opponents {
g M Wilson says tina, he made
: gteaf mistake in not recognize
+
. sp1ec:, ii f5se Senate lays i o.. pers
. ma hostility 10 iiuerta entertaine
: by the President. a biunuer on tt
:, part of the Massachusetts, statesme
as nalDvalent if not as absurd
= the 4. cl,ratinn of the viceful w
9 liam Alden Smith that Wilson wit
j Dire our troops from Vera Cruz b
il aus Carcenza ordered him to do
II Suppose Wilson had recognize
Huerta and the later had 1eesta
lished peonage as it exist all t
II years under Diaz. Suppose Huer
had crushed the rebellion, hang
Villa, as he has murdered Nader
and peace" has resulted? 1t wou
have been the order that reigned
!! Warsaw. Another revolution wou
have followed and another, and a
| other, till peonage got its dea
| blow.
Ill | can see why the statesmen
III New England, when our Constit
II ton was made, forced into that
strument Section 9, Article /, tn
II perpetuated the African slave ira
until the year 1908, but l am at
| loss to diecover the decency in
II speech of a New England Senator
ii our day advocating peonage III MI
| ico---except on the theory tt
Lodge does not care the dew
bringing about Mexico or the Nj
leans. wilson is the man he
= after.