The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-10-19
WILSON'S WEAK POLITICS.

ident Wilson's weak vasilating,- bung-
ling and humilitating policies. and al
ways it is in the same presumptous
and apologize yein-"But he has
kept us out of war;" thus admitting
that this administration, his policies,
rounded as a whole, must be accept
ed as failure As matter of fact
even the apology of his friends is
mistake He has not kept Us out of
war, nothing of the kind. But for
the forbearance OF Mexican presidents
we would have been in bloody con-
fict with that county long ago. I'm
willing to follow the lead of all the
other great nations in extending re-
Cognition to Huerta, the constitution
ally elected president Of Mexico, he
set himself resolutely and arbitrari-
ly at the task of driving Huerta out
of office That was a gravely UNI
friendly act toward a neiShbor re.
public. Huerta may have been man
of blood, but that was none of Will
sons business. President Madero was
dead. Mexico had no executive head
and, provided by the constitution OF
that country, their congress elected
Huerta. Other nations promptly re-
Cognized him as such but Wilson
arrayed himself to drive him from
office. Ess, ntially that was an act
of war, and unwarranted interference
in the affairs of friendly power
with which we were otherwise at
peace. Had Wilson extended recog-
milton and thereafter done no mali
cious meddling Mexico would have
had domestic peace long ago. But
Wilson protesting no interference, did
interfere; he even went so far as to
send a fleet of forty armed battleships
into Mexican waters-an act of war,
killed lot of MeXicans and sacrificed
a lot of our own boys. then hauled
down our own flag and sailed away,
an act so ,cowardly, so humiliating
that every true American must feel
the blush of shame. Against such I'M
warranted interference Mexico would
have been justified in declaring war,
and would have done so but for the
fact that she was torn by civil strife
and unable to resent insult and injury
PROSTATE, bleeding at every pore Mex
leo was compelled to pocket Wilson's
brutal insults. Her president was
driven into exile Wilson had. after
twelve months of unjustified and UNI
warranted interference, of cowardly
warfare, succeeded in destroying the
only government Mexico had, and
then left them another year without
any government at all, during which
time bandits Matched out like lice in
la hen house, and they proceeded to
murder and outrage hundreds of our
citizens. Murder and pillage was the
Irule of the hour and the only pro-
lection extended from Washington
was orders to run, to leave Mexico,
leave their homes, their property,
their all to the tender mercy of boards
of cut-throats, thieves and murderers
that the Wilson policy had turned
loose upon them. That is how he
kept us out tof war in that instance.
Now comes the second chapter con,
corning this lovely exponent of peace
and we find him dickering with both
( Villa and CarranZa, both men of
blood, proposing to extend recOgni-
! tiOn as, de factO president to the one
that would do his (Wilson's) bidding.
Villa promised willing obedience to
, his very demand and Carranza re-
/ solutely refused any alliance what
ever. Villa felt he had every right
to expect the promised recognition,
but Wilson turned him down cold and
extended the cepter of authority to
his bitter enemy, Carranza. Then
Villa took to the hills. what else could
have been expected His Indian blood
! was stirred to boiling heat. He had
been deceived, insulted, outraged, his
! arch enemy rewarded, promoted and
given authority over him. No Won
der he felt that the president of the
! United States had double crossed
! him and he is out for revenge. The
might-to-be expected massacre soon
came. CarranZa unwilling and liable
! to cope with him, was not even asked
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peaceful terms. Neither was Carranza
asked to permit United States soldiers
to enter Mexico in pursuit of Villa.
! Our army was ordered into the ter
ritOry of "a nation with which we
Y ere at peace" and is there today in
open defiance of president CarranZa' S
protest, refuses to leave. and that is
another act of war. If any other ma
ton was thus insulted, invaded, her
sovereignty violated by the United
States, instant war would have result,
led. And what else but war would have
resulted if Mexico had sent an army
| into the United States and refused
to withdraw it? We repeat, Wilson
has not kept us out OF war;" But
for the unexampled forbearance of
the presidents of Mexico we would
cause of the unnecessary laundering
of President Wilson and this outrage
this quartering of our army on the
territory of a friendly nation, nation
with which we are at peace" will
I continue for political reasons, until
after the election, after which it will