The daily Alaskan., 1916-11-01
CLAIMS WILSON HAS N0T KEPT
 OUT OF WAR

Democratic speakers throughout inc country have the effrontery to keep on claiming that the President has 'kept us out of war" This preposterous claim has not fooled the people of the United States" declared Representative Julius Kah of California, ranking minority member of the House Military Com mittee. in q statement here today.
 If anyone douDts that we made war on Mexico at Vera Cruz askk the mothers and fathers of the boys who were killed on the streets of that Mexican seaport.
 Ask the wives and mothers and siaters cf the Mexicans who were k:iled at Vera Cruz whether we| were at war with Mexico,
 Ask the relatives of the eight teen American civilians who were butcbered at santa Ysabel,
 ASK the relatiyeB of the United States soldiers who were trench erouslY slain at CarGfzal.
 Ask the mothers and sisters of thosewho were slaughtered in the raid at Columbus, New Mexico, whether we were at war with Mex leo.
 Ask the citizens of Brownsville, Red House Ferry, ProgesO and Los Peladas whether the President has kept us out of war
 Ask the women and children who We're threatened with death at Tampico by an infuriated Mexican mob. ,
 Ask the thohsnds of American citizens who were called upon to abandon their property in Mexico and to return forthwith to the U- ulted States whehter the President has kept us out of var
 Ask the hundreds of those re fugees who are in the United Stayes today, practically pennies and in want who were forced to leave their property and homes in Mexico because the Wilson administrations refuse? to give them the protection to whicl they were justly entitled.
 "Ask thu thousands of peaceful Mexicans who have suffered famine during 'watohful waiting.'
 "AnG. finally, ask the wives and children, the dependent mothers, fathers and sisters of the 15O,0OO Na'ionaI Guardsmen who are 'en- camped on the Mexican border whether the President has kept us out of war with Mexico.
 "In 1912 the Democratic plat ! form proclaimed this high sounding f doctrine:
 The constitutional rights of American citizens should protect them on our borders, and go with then throughout the world, and every American citizen residing or having property in any foreign country is entitled to and must be given the full protection of the U- nited States Government, both for himself and for his property
 After several years of 'watchful waiting Secretary of State Lansing seEt letter to the head of the de facto government of Mexico in which occurs this remarkable language. Z The progress of the revolution in Mexico; Con+'nuous bloodshed and disorders have marked It's pro gress. For three years the Mex ican Republic has been torn with civil strife; lives of American and otrer aliens have been saorlficed; vast properties developed by Amer icau capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered nonpro- ductive; bandits have been permit ltsd to roam at will through thq Iterritory contiguous to the United Sta.es and 10 seize, without punish ment, the property of Americans while the lives Of citizens of the lUniteed States who ventura to renal in Mexican territor=r or to return there to protect their interests have been taken, and in some cases barharously taken, and the murder CTS have neither been apprehanded nor brought to justice.
 " It would be tedious to re- count instance after instance, out rage after outrage, atrocity after a+rocity, to illustrate the true na@ ture and extent of the widespread conditions of lawlessnesS and vio- lence which have prevailed. Not only were these murders character