New Britain herald., 1916-09-01
ROOSEVELT GIVEN
 OVATION IN MAINE
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cred by the MeXicanS or rescued by the Germans and English.
 "On August 27, 1913, President Wilson said With marked oratorical effect: We shall vigilantly watch the fortunes of those Americans who cannot get away from Mexico Three years have passed since the date of this OratiOn; three- years of incessant elocution on the part of MT. Wilson,; three years of repeated invOcations to Humanity and peace by MT. Wilson, and MT. Wilson still continues to wig ilantly watch the fortunes of those Americans who cannot get away There are not many of them left now. Hundreds have been killed, and MT. Wilson has watched their fortunes as disinterestedly as if they had been rats pursued by terriers. This ad- administration has displayed no more feeling of responsibility for the American women who have been raped, and for the American men, women and children who have been killed in Mexico, than farmer shows for the rats killed by his dogs when the hay is taken from a barn. And now the American people are asked to sanction this policy in the name of peace, righteousness and humanity!
 President Wilson took Vera Cruz in 1914, as we were officially informed at the time to get a salute for the f1ag and to prevent the shipment of arms into Mexico. He did not get his salute. He did not prevent the ship ment of arms, but several hundred men were killed or wounded; and then he brought the army home with out achieving either object. President Wilson sent an army into Mexico in 1916, as we were informed at the time, to get Villa dead or alive They did not get him dead. They did not get him alive. Again several hundred men were killed and WOund- ed Again President Wilson is bring ing the army home without achieving his object.
 "Of course it is a mere play upon words to say that these were not wars They were wars, and nothing e1se; ignOble, pofntless, unsuccessful little wars; but wars. They cost mil lions of dollars and hundreds of lives squandered, to no purpose; they ac- complished nothing; but they were wars. And yet MT. Wilson's defend- CTS say that he has kept us out of war As a matter of fact his policy in Mexico has combined all the evils of feeble peace with all the evils of feeble war; but he has not avoided war. He has sacrificed the honor and the interest of the country; but he has not received the thirty pieces of sil- yer.
 ''In fact, when MT. Wilson forgets himself he admits that we have been at war; for example, on May II, 1914, in an address over the dead marines at the navy yard in Brooklyn, Gin which, by the way, he in effect claimed sympathy on the ground that his. feelings had been as much lacer- ated by sneers as the bodies of the dead men by bullets), he said that the marines had been engaged in a war of service A war of service to whom or what? Certainly not to the United States; nor to Mexico, nor to human ity at large Was it to MT. Wilson?
 AS it is with war so it is with 'bntervention.' President Wilson has again and agian said he would hot intervene in Mexico. As a matter of fact he has intervened continuously. On January 8, 1915, he announced that the Mexicans had the right to spill blood, to spill as much blood as they pleased, without interference. The fact that the blood they were spilling included the blood of Ameri- can citizens, both soldiers and civil ians-and among them women and evidently did not weigh with him.
 "On December 10, 1915, he said that it was none of our business what the MeXicans did with their govern ment, and so long as I have the power to prevent it nobody shall butt in to alter them Yet at that very time he had been 'butting in for two years, and he has been putting in ever since; and he has avOwed that he wished to alter it for them in all kinds of ways, from land tenures up and down. But as he never followed any policy of either intervention or non-interven- ton with any resOlution-always yielding at the critical moment to some bandit chief of whom he became fearful-bOth his spasns of interven- ton have alike been entirely futile.
 "In August, 1913, he sent special envoy to Mexico to tell Huerta he would not recognize him. He an- nounced this himself in note in Oc- tober, and on December 2, he an- bounced he would not deal with the Huerta government. This was inter- vention and nothing else; it was such intervention as if in 1877 some Flu ropean government had declined to r recognize Hayes as president, and in sisted upon the seating of Tilden. MT. Wilson intervened when he backed Villa against Huerta. He intervened when he turned against Villa and rec ognized CarranZa.
 Warning to Factions.
 'At one time Mr. Wilson's policy of Intervention produced such unha Dpy results that on Juno 2, 1915, he is- sued a formal warning to the MeXi- can factions in which he said that Mexico is apparently no nearer a sO- Iution of her tragical troubles than sAe was when the revolution was first kindled. She has been swept by civil war as if by fire. Her crops are de- gtroyed, her cattle cOnfiscated, her