Weekly journal-miner., 1916-08-02

luSCQ Cndptcr or DlunuGTS. we nave
 not helped Mexico. She lies pros
 tratc, impoverished, faminc-s stricken,
 overwhelmed with the woes and out
 ragcs of intcrnccine strife, the help
 less victim of a condition of anarchy
 which the course of the administra-
 ton only served to promote. For
 ourselves, we have witnessed the mur- der of our citizens and the destruc-
 ton of their property. We have made | enemies, not friends. Instead of com manding respect and deserving good will by sincerity, irmness and consist cncy, we provoke misapprehcnsion and deep resentment. In the light of the conduct of the administration no one could understand its professions
 Dccrying interference, we interfcrcd most exasperatingly We have not even kept out of actual conflict, and the soil of Mexico is stained with the blood of our soldiers. We have re- sorted to physical invasion, only to retire without gaining tine professed object. It is a record which can not be without profound sense of humili- ation.
 When the administration came in to power, Huerta was exercising au- thority as provisional president of Mexico. He was certainly in fact the head of the government of Mexico. Whether CT not he should be recog- nized was question to be determined in the exercise of a sound discretion, but according to correct principles. The president was entitled to be as surcd that there was at least a de facto government: that international obligations would be performed; that the lives and property of American citizens would have proper protec- ton. To attempt, however, to con trol the domestic concerns of Mexico was simply intervention, not less so because disclaimcd.
 The question is not as to the non recognition of IIucrta. The adminis- tration did not content itself with re- fusing to recognize Hucrta, who was recognized by Great Britain, Ger many, France, Russia, Spain and Ja- pan. The administration undertook to destroy Hucrta, to control Mexi- can politics, even to deny Hucrta the right to be candidate for the office of president at the election the ad- ministration demanded.
 In the Spring of 1914, occurred the capture of Vera Cruz. Men from out ships had been arrested at Tampico and had been discharged with an apology. But our admiral demanded q salute, which was refused. There rpon the president went to congress, asking authority to use the armed forces of the United States Without waiting for the passage Of the reso- lution Vera Cruz was seized. It ap- pcarcd that shipload of ammunition for fIucrta was about to enter that rort. There was natural opposition to this invasion and battle occurred in which l9 Americans and over q hundred McNicans were killed.
 This, of course, was war Our dead soldiers were praised for dying Ike heroes in war of service. Lat CT, we retired from Vera Cruz, giving | uf this noble warfare We had not obtained the salute which was de- mandcd. We had not obtained repar- | ation for affronts The ship with am, muniton which could not land at Vera Cruz had soon landed at an other port and its cargo was deliver cd to IIucrta without interference. | Recently the naked truth was admit l ted by Q cabinet officer. We are no; informed that we did not go to Vera Cruz to force IIucrta tc salute the flag We are told that we went there to show Mexico that we were in earnest in. our demand that Hucrta must go.' That is, we seized Vera Cruz to dcpose iuerta. The qucs- ton of a salute was mere prctcNt.
 Destroying the government of Hcurta, we left Mexico to the rayagcs oi revolution. | shall not attempt to narrate the sickcning story of the committed, of the carnival of murder and lust. We were then told that Mexico was entitled to spill as much blood as she pleased 10 settle { her affairs The administration vacil- lated with respect 10 the embargo on |. the export of arms and munitions to 1 Mexico. Under the resolution of 1912 President Taft had laid such an em-