Arizona republican., 1916-10-22

'NeA4iH WNit fliul hiN HS net protected American lives and American property. All that he has done has been from time to time to help one bandit leader against some other bandit leader. The Tampco Incident furnishes the best proof ot this fact. There were 2,300 American refugees in Tampico, whose lives were threatened by the Mexican reyolu- tionists. American gunboats were in the harbor to protect them. But President Wilson was not concerned with their protection. He was con- cerned solely with helping his then friend, Villa, and antagonizing Villas foe, Huerta. He was furnishing Villa with the arms whicn, Villa used for have it on the authority of MT Will sons friene and champion. Senator Lewis, of Illinois. that MT Wilson actually intended to recognize Villa, the murderer. raider and ro5ber as president but was afraid to do so because of the republican opposition. The American ships at Tampico were withdrawn from this duty of pro- tecting the lives of American men. murderers, and were sent to operate |, against Huerta at Vera Cruz, in the interest of Villa. The Americans owed their lives to the protection of tine German and British warships. Whet1er this dreadful betrayal of duty was due immediately to the di- rect action of Secretary Daniels. or to the action or the officers whom he | had put in charge at Tampico and | Vera Cruz, is of no consequence. The | ultimate responsibility for this, and | tor all the other shameful episodes in ! Mexico. rests directly on President | Wilson himself
 A Contributor to Bankruptcy
 President Wilson has seen the Mex | years become socially, politically and | morally bankrupt. He has not helped Mexico. He has ruined Mexico. The l jungle k creeping over the great l plantations. The cattle on the ranch l es have been wantonly and wastefully | slaughtered. The thoroughbred stock | farms which were the work of de- i cades have been destroyed Irriga- ton plants are out Of service. rail- road terminals have been burnt. roll ing stock and locomotives broken up and damaged beyond repair Mines that furnished employment to scores of thousands are standing idle. The national treasury has been emptied. paper currency, dehased and worth less, has been substituted for the na- tions money. All the means of an ! stroyed. An epidemic of typhus rages that twice has menaced the health of ] our border cities. The country no | longer produces sufficient foodstuffs Actual starvation is upon the people | Sixty thousand white men. who were one of the great civilizing and de- | veloping forces of Mexico are in l exile The jungle. the desert and ! cruel primitive savagery hold sway. l Carranza's government is but 3 shell
 of authority. based on murder and plunder, limited to a few of the larg- CT cities and railroad lines. in antag-
 onism to every organizing force upon
 which a government can rest. The
 absolute refusal of the outside world
 to lend it money is evidence of the
 low credit in which it is held. and is
 also n grim commentary on MT Will
 sons folly in assailing the American
 miners ranchers. workingmen. in- , vestcrs and business men. who alone , rendered possible healthy prosperity , in Mexico.
 A Disreaarded Trust
 In the message above referred to , President Wilson said that il was our D duty to discharge the trust that the great powers of the world had placed
 in our hands with reference to Mex , ico. But he has done nothing to f discharge this trust. He aas sent our n sailors and soldiers 10 invade Mexi- h can soil. These men have shot down 1, Mexicans and have themselves been {, killed. But nothing has resulted. ex-
 cept to increase the hatred of tho
 MeXicans for Americans He ha. t continually protested that he woule . not intervene in Mexico and vet h, ~ has intervened continually in ever, d way from diplomacy 10 war: but al ', ways with futility. and awyas witt 70 timiditY. He has sinued heavil' d gainst Mexico. He has sinned agains ~ humanity He has sinned most heav : fly against the United States H. d has allowed Mexico to drift int V bloody anarchy. Mexico needs peac jt and security. We can give peac ,a and security to Mexico, but only i 'd we show courage and resolution. IS. We fail, then some foreign power wi {, in the end itself do the task. an er make Mexico it's servant, to our ow ,f lrreparable damage. Mr Wilson = inviting this disaster
 < The Balkans Of America
 - II can not be a matter of indiffer
 ence to us what kind of govern
 inent arises in Mexico. Mexico in il
 geographical and physical aspect
 with the Panama canal adjoininl
 represents to the United States wha n the Balkans and Asia Minor repre- H sent 10 Europe. There the Dardan N elles and the Suez canal are tn prize, valuable as the Panama cana IS valuable to us. as source Ia profit and national power After H decade of internal warfare and strue H gle IT, the Balkans, the present worl war resulted. If we let Mexico sin
 into permanent anarchy and sho ourselves too feeble to restore orde then sooner or later some old worl
 military power win itself step in an
 take possession. with results as dis
 astrous to us as the anarchy in tt
 Balkan neninsula has been disastrot
 to Europe. Mexico, like Asia Mno
 IS mountainous peninsula. IL don
 mates the Caribbean and has imm,
 diate access to both ends of Il Panama canal. The government
 Mexico must necessarily lnteract vii N ara upon the governments and pol
 ulation of the northern half of q
 south American continent A stror E ana stable government in Mexic working In harmonious relations wi
 the United States. could establis
 security for property and make possible for American enterprise
 carry railroads. irrigation works al
 other benefits of civilization into tn
 territory The development of Il
 MexicaIi railroad net would enab the United States in case the ne
 ever arose. to help ward off aggre
 slon by foreign power railro; - extending to the Panama would gi