The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-05-17
Shown In His Attitude
Regarding Mexico.
CLAIMS HE STOOD sTEADFAsT
For American Honor, But Rec.
Ords Show Insults Under
His Administration.
AFFRONTS ~" FLAG NUMEROUS

The New York Evening Post
| punctures the claims of Colonel
Roosevelt that during all the time
he was President no American was
killed va foreign nation, and shows
on the other hand that insults to the
flag were numerous. The Evening
Post says:
In Col. Roosevelt's address to the
Methodists the other evening-his
! latest concic ad clerum-he appar-
emily followed the model of Lacor-
daire. For it was of him that Gui-
zot wrote: His history and the
ology were full OF originality. In
deed, they were absolutely original,
for he invented them as he went on.
This gave to his sermons the charm
of perpetual novelty"
To the credulous Methodists Mr..
Roosevelt made this statement:
81 was President seven and a half
years. This nation during all that
time never for one moment permit
ted any Power to wrong this coun-
try or to wrong Americans either in
their persons or property or to make
us recreant to our duty to others;
and yet during those seven and
half years not one shot was fired by
any man in American soldiers
uniform against any foreign foe, and
not one American man, woman or
child was slain by representatives of
any foreign nation"
His reference was to Mexico.
Very well; turn to the Tribune in
dex for 1904, under Mexico" We
find the entry, July %, 1.-TWO Amer
leans Shot" In the year 1905, the
record for January IS is 81. A. San
ger Murdered" and for January %,
"Yaquis Kill Four Americans" But
the tell-tale years is 1906. The
insults to our flag were piled
thick. Here are some of the en-
tries: American Fishing Boats
Seized;" american Fishermen Jail
ed" American Sailors Charge Tor
tures.' 1t was in June of 1906 that
occurred the browning ''infamy"-
as Roosevelt would have called it If
it had taken place under Wilson.
Read this: How Americans Died
at Cananea." And then, oh, shame
faced Americans, read this: Root
Denies American Troops to Cana
neal"
There had been murderous oat-
break at the Cananea mines. Sew
eral Americans were killed. What
did the imperiled American suryi-
vors do? They sent to Washington,
through the American Consul at
Cananea, telegram urgently call
ing for help. Even the Mexican
Governor of Sonora was reported as
asking that the United States Gov
eminent send in a military force.
But what happened? Why, Secre-
tary Root consulted the Chief of
STAFF, and "the law officer of the
War Department"-think of the dis
grace of actually looking up the
law!-and decided that American
troops must not cross the line"
Imagine it! Uncle Sam putting on a
pigtail like that. when Roosevelt
was President!
That this was a cowardly and alb
ject policy, We know on the highest
authority. For it was Mr.. Roose-
Welt himself who laid down the eter-
nally righteous principle in that
same speech of his to the Method
lists. Referring to the fact that
Americans had been killed in Mex
leo while Wilson was President, he
said:
N"if the very first time such an In
cident occurred, We had acted with
instant decision and crossed the bor-
der. not within two or three days,
but thirty minutes afterward. had
inflicted immediate punishment on
the offenders. punishment OF kind ,
which would have shown the ex-
treme unwisdom of repeating the
offense. there would never have been
a repetition of the offense. Certain
foolish pacifists' at home would un-
doubleday have been lackadaisical