The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-01
snore shameful than his conduct at Tam

I1'iore shameful than his conouct At tal"
AZ that time the particular bandit Mr.,
VIA. This. however Is OF no conse.
heIpGd the different Mexican leaders 90
! against Huerte; now Carranza against
Villa; hut he has never stood up chec-
! lively Tor American rights against any
iHe When he mas tSem be has a 'aHe
ways hastily abandoned The attempt as
soon as the resistance By the bandit
involved became serious.
At Tampico there .1"as general move
! ment OF attack by the MeNicans on
Americans and other foreigners; We
| had squadron Of American warships in
! the neishborhood. The NilSon adminis-
SrAtlon declined 10 permit TINS squadron
, 70 nc used 10 defend the llfss or amer
lean men. and the honor Of American
women. and the commanders or me
! German and English ships at Tampico
had TO step in and perform the task our
representative had $" oescly a1anao th
! Lad surrounded The building In which
The Americans had taken refuge. and
WAS bowling for their blood, the Amer.
lean fleet. in spite of the protests or
the American naval commander, and In
accordance with wireless orders from
Washington. was forced 10 steam out nt
the harbor and leave the Americans 10
he massucrcd by tho MeXicans, or res
Cued by the Germans and English: Thf
case has been set forth in fun, and
without successful contradiction: ny ~
expert in naval matters. Mr.. R"u' rrnTHi, -
| wish 10 say with all graz an" .ha
All s"ri"usn"ss tina: ~ th,~ 49, H
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N,u,rlrnu i,,!InIuI~rrui; '.il
i.~,.,.t.,,t "T ~; ,oI. TX Vera Cruz in
XII. as Ne were officially informed at
I,Ytn e..
and u prevent the shipment Ct arms
into Mexico. He did not get his salute
He did not prevent the shipmnet Of
arms But several hundred men were
killed or wounded; and then he brought
| the army homo without achieving either
! object. President Wilson sent an army
| into Mexico in 1916. as We were inform
ed ut the time, TO set Villa dead or
alive" They did not get him dead. They
did not get him alive. Again several
hundred men were killed and wounded
| Again President Wilson is bringing The
| army home without achieving his object.
| OF course IL Is mere play upon words
| I" say mat there we're not wars" They
r"lntleSs; unsuccessful little wars; but
wars. they cost millions Of dollars and
! hundreds Ot lives. squancered 20 no pur-
/ pose they accomplished nothing: but
theS we're wars. And yet Mr.. Wilson's
| defenders says tina, be has kept Us out
OF war. AS matter Of fact his policy
in Mexico has combined all, the evils OF
feeble peace with all the ellis Of feeble
| war lie mas secured none Of the bene-
fits Of war: but he has not avoided war.
He has sacrificed tho honor and the in
tereSt OF the country: but he has not re-
celveo the thirty pieces OF silver. In |
| TACT wien MT. wilson forGets himself he |
admits that we have been at war; for
| example on May llth. 1914. in an adj |
dress over the dead marines at the Navy |
Yard IN Brooklyn Tin which. by the way.
he In effect claimed sympathy on the
ground that his feelings had been as
much !aceTated BY sncers as the bodies
Of the dead men BY buIlcts). he said that
the marines had been engaged in war
or what? Certainly not 10 the United
States: nor to AsAlco: nor 10 humanity
at large. Was II 10 Mr. Wilson?
AS II Is with war so It Is with in
tervenlion." President Wilson has again
and again said be would not intervene"
in MEXICO; As matter Of fact he has
interyened continuously. On January
cans had the right 10 spill blood" 10
spill as much blood as they pleased.
without interference. The fact that the
blood they were splitting included the
and civillans--and among them women
and children-epidently did not weigh
with him.
Some Of the, offenders Of Mr.. Wilson,
IN answer " M duSAeS IneTClIeSS IN
dictment of Mr.. Wilson'S course. have
sought TO justify Mr.. Wilson by at
tempting to turn the whole issue on the
character Of HueEta, who was the de
facto President when Mr.. Wilson became
President Of the United States. They
ask Mr.. Hughes, Would you have rec
ognized Huerta" Tho answer Is that
any one of several courses could have
been adopted provided only that the
course adopted had been followed with
resolution and with full acceptance Of
the responsibility involved.
There was much to be said In favor
OF the policy Of recognizing Huerta and
avoiding intervention There was also
much TO be said In favor Of the policy
OF refusing 10 recognize Huerta. which
was intervention and then Of fully &C.
coping the responsibility implied in in
tervenIion. But there is nothing TO be
said in favor Of webbing between the
two policies. and neither recognizing
Hueria nor accepting the responsibility
ornize him. Y.t this was the course Mr.. :
Wilson followed m