The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-04-27
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the look of supreme insolence and of arrogant
self-satisfaction.
The reading matter beneath the picture of
the two burly blacks, mounted Oh their splen-
did cavalry horses follows:
Somewhere in Chihuhua-There's terror in
Northern Mexico! Poems of the deserts and
mountains think the world has turned against
them
That's because General Pershing made wise
move and sent in negro cavalry from Hachita,
NJ M, the day of the first invasion, and negro
infantry from Columbus afterward
These dark people-they are not Ameri-
canoes! cry the Mexicans as the negro troops
pass. THE gringoes have brought other nations
to fight against us!'
Were Americans, all right, and don't you for
get it,, the negroes horses responded.
John Kenneth Turner, well-known author
and newspaper correspondent, writes to the
appeal to Reason, Girard Kansas
When these lines reach the reader, April %,
it will have been forty-four days since the Column
bus raid, thirty-eight since the American army
invaded Mexico without the consent of the de facto
government, yet with the purpose-according to
Secretary Lansng-"to prevent intervention"
While our Government, for reasons not salts
factorily explained is concealng the exact num-
Der of troops, their equipment, precisely where
they are and what they doing, there
things that, by the grace of the military censor
ship, we are permitted to know.
We permitted to know that a regiment of
negro cavalry is riding at the head of the eXpedi
ton; that, March 29 an American party, consist
ing chiefly Of these negroes, surprised" the town
Of San Geronimo, killed sixty Mexicans, and
congratulated by the President of the United
States for their exploit. We are permitted to
know that, three days later, April 1, the same
negro regiment, the Tenth, surprised" the viii
lage OF Aguas Calientes and killed between thirty
and forty Mexicans
The report says that the dead Mexicans were
" tha0o for
Villistas not told Vllistas do not wear
distinctive uniforms. They do not carry flag
There was no parlay, no call to surrender. IN
each case it was a surprise and massacre.
That the Mexicans not in position to
offer resistance, is proven by the fact that there
was no resistance-no battle Not single Amer
lean killed in either engagement In the
second, not one was wounded -Four were re-
ported wounded in the first, but none SO seriously
as to make trip to the hospital necessary.
Were these four negro cavalrymen wounded by
Mexicans, by accidents incident to the chase?
DID the Mexicans have guns? If SO, isn't it likely
that at least American would have been
killed?
Great God What is really happening in
Mexico? Are our black dogs of war running
amuck shaking their bood-lust upon unarmed
natives?
IF you will examine a map of Mexico, and
locate Parral, you will find that 1t as farther
South than Villa has even been rumored to
have gone.
That territory is in the control of the Car
rama government which ours recognized.
Then, what purpose carried our soldiers in
on General Carranza?
President Wilson's new scholar, Secretary
Baker, declared to the world that "There is
no intention Of entering Mexico in force"
In like manner, our Government in 1898
assured the world that the Spanish war was
not intended to add one acre to our territory
We bitterly realize the hypocrisy of the
Mckinley assurance: is Wilson's taken from
the same reDertorv of deceit?