The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-11-02


| government, and the conduct of nego
tiations, the first magistrate (to-wit
the President of the United States
will find himself under the necessit
Of intervening by means of an ultima
tum"
That is. the government Of the Unit
ed States had decided by one metho,
or another to get rid Of him.. 1t 4
clear. That Is my interpreta ton o
it, TO eliminate completely all assist
ance that Huerta felt ne might receiv,
! from foreign sources. And the Presi
dent of this great Republic says to {
de-facto President of a sister Republi,
in power-he sends a secret emissary
or private emissary, with a letter t.
that de-facto President telling him he
must get out. Is that intervention
If not, what is it? Is IL interfering
with the internal affairs of Mexico
What had Huerta done to us? HUI
erta during his reign in Mexico never
permitted an American citizen within
the territory over which he had juris-
diction TO be injured. No American
citizen had suffered loss of life or
property within the 75 per cent of
territory over which the Indian held
power. What had America, therefore.
to do towards cutting off his resour-
ces2 He had eighty thousand soldiers
at his command. He had contracted
for loan of one hundred millions of
dollars from France to help him carry
his government to peace and order
He had been recognized by 26 great
nations of the earth. Tell me upon
what theory we could say TO this old
Indian, you must get out. And am
mistaken
We come to the Vera Cruz incident
which follows next. The President
came before the Congress and stated
that some soldiers had been arrested
at Tampico. which was true and by
reason of the insult to the American
flag the admiral in charge of the fleet
had demanded a salute of the flag
Re asked permission in his message,
which 1 have here, to use the army
and navy of the United States-to do
what? Don't misunderstood me- He
asked the use of the army and navy
of the United States to enforce a salute
of the flag. Very well and good. That
power was given him. We went to
Vera. Cruz, expended ten millions of
dollars. lost nineteen American citi-
zens, and killed 300 Mexicans. and
hammered down and destroyed a large
portion of the great sea port of Vera
Cruz. Did we go there to enforce a
salute Of the flag?
Far be it from me to charge. and
don't misunderstood me. the honor or
veracity upon the part of the Presi-
dent when he came before Congress
simply recite the facts, but the his
tory says we didn't go there to enforce
A salute of the flag. We went there to
carry out this letter which he had en-
trusted TO John Lind to try to remove |
his de-facto President Of Mexico from |
his seat. Rather strong statement for
'ne to make. Then let me sustain |
t by a source which you will not gain
ay- Franklin K. Lane is one of the
Ible men connected with this admin
stration, man to whom I paw the
ribute of my highest respect, and do
sincerely. He wrote a letter a few
lays ago to the New York World, and
yer his signature he said-perhaps I
lad better read the Presidents mes
age first. This is the message to Con-
ress: 81. therefore, feel it my duty
o sustain Admiral Mayo in the whole
f the demand to insist that the flag
( the United States should be ss-
lted," etc. etc, and asking for the
Sc Of the army and macy. Would you
ave understood that for the purpose
{ enforcing the salute of the flag?
tut we said nothing of the salute of
he flag when we got there. We sailed +;
ito the harbor of Vera Cruz, unload
lg our deadly fire upon the people of I
fexico as we sailed into the harbor
low what did Secretary Lane say we
-ent there for. in his letter? I'VE ;
idn't go TO Vera Cruz to force Huerta '
} salute the flag We did go there to 5
now Mexico that we were in earnest I
! our demand that Huerta must 60 '
nd he did 60" says Lane. before we E
#" In other words. the army and /
avy of the United States was used 7
J remove the de-facto President of q
exico from the Presidency. to which 7
2 had been accredited.
1t has been said that he was
connected with the murder OF
Madero. I do not know. Nobody
knows. 1t might have been so.
but is that any reason why we
had to oversee Mexico?
When the president of Peru as
sassinated his predecessors and
walked into his place and became
President. we recognized him I'm a
very short time.
This administration. when the
present President of Haytf assas-
sinated the President of Hayti
and became his successor through
blood. recognized him as Presi-
dent. The government of the
United States can not oversee the
method by which all the Presi-
dents of Central America become
Presidents. and if we did we
would be at war all the time.
But we went to Vera Cruz. as
say. and we killed 800 Mexicans.
wounded SO of our own men. and
lost 10. Was that peace? What !,
do you suppose the Mexicans -
thought il was? Haughter.) We =
waged war against Spain, and lost ~
"a less number than we lost I'm =
waging peace with Mexico. ZAP =.
plause.) -,
They say to you that our hon =
ored President has kept US out -
Of war. Suppose we had gone to -.
Germany and fired our shot and -
shell into the vitals of the Ger II
man citizens. Suppose we had
turned our cannons and our ships
have been war. Suppose we had
rome To England and shot into
liverpool and so much as in
ured a single citizen of England.
{ would have been war. The
'nly reason ii was not war with
Mexico was because this torn.
distracted and demoralized little
lation was unable to respond.
lad she had an army and navy
UGH as Germany has. il would
ave been war. and Justly war.
/ meet a cripple i'm the street
nd hammer him down and leave
i'm in his own blood. il may not
G fight. but IL wasn't my fault
no.
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