Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-02
MEXICO YET 70
PR[C|P|IA1[ VAR
SENATOR FALL, or NEW MEXICO,
sIARTLEs SENATE WITH
FAcrs.
INTERVENTION BY y. 8.
MUST COME IN TIME
Senator Fall Declares Wilson Admins.
tration 10 Utterly Ignorant Of condi-
tions Underlying Present Turmoil in
Southern Republic Villa and
carranxa are Assessing.
Especial Correspondence

1 lSpeCldl SOEIcSpOuOcNSCsJ
Washington, March mo man in
the United States senate knows Mexico
better, If as well, as Albert B. Fall, SEN
ator from New Mexico. Almost Q resi-
dent Of the southern republic, speaking
Spanish fluently and personally &C.
quainted with men and conditions thru
out the whole Mexican area, Senator
Fall Is able to present to the country
! picture of the Mexican situation 80
vivid and impressive that few men can
view it and compare 1t with the picture
apparently in the mind OF PRESIDENT
| Wilson without amazement. From time
to time Senator Fall, dispassionately
and clearly, has made an informing
speech in the senate tracing the pro-
gress and results of the various revolu-
tions. He has been neither fire.
nor a lingo, altho he always has main
! tanned that the most ordinary police
work in northern Mexico, performed
with intelligence with which American
army officers would have done it, would
! have saved many American lives ana
| much property now stolen or destroyed.
Intervention Predicted.
a
presented an analysis of conditions in
| Mexico which may go far toward con-
frming the growing conclusion that ue-
| fore much longer the United States,
either alone or in conjunction with the
A. B. c. powers, must step in to pacify
the country. Mr.. Fall maintains that
at the most not more than 100000 men
| ever have been under arms out of the
IA 900, 900 people of Mexico; and in ex-
PLANTATION OF mis- original demand that
the United States at least should pre-
| serve order along the northern border,
| the senator says: THE time has been
since I have been in the senate and
speaking to members of this body upon
| this subject when the police force OF
New York City could have absolutely
restored order in Mexico without diff
Guilty and without the spilling of blood.
The time has now come" he adds,
when there are 100000 armed bandits
! in Mexico, killing one another and
killing peaceable, quiet citizens, de-
stroying civilization and wiping religion
out Of the country"
! Conditions Parallel to 1860.
4 II unhappily the United States shall
! be drawn into the great war now
\ sweeping the world, the attack will be
made thru Mexico and not thru Cam
ada OF upon either our Atlantic or Pa
| ciflc coasts, says the senator. Condi-
| tions are almost exactly parallel with
those from 1860 to 1865. Handicapped
| by war Of our own, we were unable to
carry out the doctrine which we had
announced in 1928, and which we have
maintained down to the present time.
We could only protest against the ac-
ton of France in sending $4,000 veteran
soldiers from her country into Mexico
to seat Macmillan in Chapultepec upon
the Mexican throne. But as soon as
| the civil war was over we did throw
4 %, 600 veteran troops upon the Rio
Grande and notified Napoleon III as
well as the emperor Of Austria, that In
the event they did not withdraw the
French troops the United States would
Of itself drive the French out and
Macmillan from the throne. Had not
that demand of the United States
been complied with, the result would
have been war between this country
and France, growing out Of the in
ternal difficulties within Mexico, with
which it was said then, as it is said
now, that this country has nothing to
do.
Wilson Ignorant Of Condition.
Neither the president nor any other
/ officer Of this administration has
grasped or understood the truth of the
conditions underlying in Mexico yet
without the truth OF the conditions 1t is
| impossible for the president to deal
| intelligently with Mexican questions,
as he still insists that he shall be al
lowed to deal with them, says Senator
l mi.
ator squarely asserts, believed that as
i a result Of the A B C mediation an
understanding had been reached and a
peldge obtained by us from Carranza
\ whereby Carranza would not prosecute,
prosecute nor kill those who did not
agree with him; that upon entering
the city of Mexico he would grant gem
eral amnesty until such time as a
president could be elected and gov
| eminent which would be recognized by
| the United States could be formed in
Mexico. This understanding, at least,
was believed by the Mexican people to
have been a result, II the only one,sof
1 the Niagara conference. ~
Slaughter by carranza.
Here is the picture of Carranza's
entry into Mexico City in the graphic
words of Senator Fall:
when Carranza entered the city OF
| Mexico In the face OF protests from
foreign representatives and our own
representatives, he proceeded to pun-
lish without hesitation, by shooting to
] death, am afraid to undertake to say
how many of the more prominent citi-
Gems Of that republic who remained
i within the city or whom he could seize
i in whatever quarter under his control
i without trial. The so-called court
! martial proceedings of either faction
4 in Mexico consists in one man sitting
In his Office or at his desk or in his
| chair or leaning up against the wal
and ordering a file OF soldiers to 81
land arrest another man and shoot him
Man after man, delegates Of the re-
/ public, senator's. members Of the stand.
i Ing committee on legislation, were shot
down The police force
was discharged; the courts were closed;
4 the streets were paraded by soldiers
500 called, Of the Carranza army; bust
I'ness houses were closed and the seal
i of foreign embassies placed upon then
for their projections; and armed bandi
4 Of rioters paraded the streets Of tn,
4 city OF Mexico That was the so-callet
4 Carranza government.
Making Matters Werse. 81
"Do you wonder now, asks Senate
Fan Of the administration. that tn