El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-08-17
Some More Questions

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AS it seems to be the season for asking
Foolish Questions. we might as well add 3
few more to the list recently propounded
to- MI. Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes:
II you had written fourteen successive
notes to Carranza, each demanding that be
be held to Strict Accountability for the muir
der Of Americans, and then your typewriter
broke and your fountain pen went dry and
both you and the secretary Of state got writ.
er's paralysis, what would be your next
stepg
II you had invaded Mexico, and taken the
port OF Vera Cruz, and driven Mr.. Huerta
out Of the presidency, and shot up some $50
Mexicans, and sent a punitive expedition
into the interior of Mexico, and ordered out
all the militia and regulars of the United
States to the Mexican border. and had
stated that you were in a fighting mood, AID
that II see no reason to change our policy
Of watchful waiting in Mexico, as it is none
Of our business and a lot of vicious vul-
lures had demanded that you intervene by
force in Mexico, would you have Gone to
War?
II you had been stating for four years
that Americans were exploiting and rob
bling Mexico, and looting the country, and
that ~vultufes were causing Columbus raids
to further their own ends, and that exploit
ers, looters and v~ultures had been exerting
terrific pressure on you for four years to
intervene In Mexico, and some one should
ask you for the name and address and
specific offeAse Of one single, solitary,
isolated, separate r~ulture, looter, exploiter,
robber or war-demander, what would you
say? Would you give his name and address
and offenae AS aforesaid Or would you re-
spcnd merely with one Of those GlItterlne
Generalitles of which you nave been &C
cused2 What?
II the Honorable Secretary OF Commerce
and Labor should tell you that one Mr.. Du-
rand had resigned, unasked, and had not
been retired, and Mr.. Durand should write
you a letter saying that he had been fired,
retired, canned and sacked, and that a
successor had been appointed, and the Hon
orable Secretary should not deny it, what
would you the first and previous statement
made by the Honorable Secretary?
If you should be in charge Of American
relations with Mexico for -four years, and
interfere, gratuitohsly, ineffectively, ~futilely,
without proyoeation and without purpose for
four years in the affairs Of that country,
and should bring the two countries to war,
ana American soldiers should be killed by
Mexican soldiers, and you should at the
end Of four years plaintively tell the peo-
pie Of the United States that you don't un-
derstand why the Mexicans can't be made
to trust us, what would you think of your
self and when?
II you should get out and tell the people
that you we're the inventor Of preparedness.
and back up the most elaborate and eKpen-
sive national defense program ever inaugu-
rated when the people forced you into it,
and then come out and say that the nation
was at peace with all the world. always
would be at peace. and was not threatened
from any quarter" and that preparedness
Invites war and that your face Is sternly
set against war for any reason. how many
bOotjacks would it take to fatten up a lamp
post!
II a hen and a half lay an egg and a half
in a day and half, and II the Singer tower
back and forth four inches in a 60
mile an hoir gale, and If the ornithorynchus
duck-billed platypus is found only IN
southeastern Sumatra, and if Reason draws
the rifle and Honor Primes the Sword, how
long will it take one war-aeroplane with .
broken pinion 10 soar so high agalh7