New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-22
No Tap On Wrist If
He Had Been
President
NO INTERFERENCE
FROM CARRANZA
Declares Wilson Policy
Has Left Serious
Problems
From st.n cOn.seonden. Of n. rnbuna J

From stsf Correspondent OF The Tribunal
Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 21.--If Theodore
Roosevelt had been in the White House
when Mexican bandits raided Columbus,
y. NJ, he told eight thousand people
here to-day, General Pershing would
have pursued Villa until he captured
him, and there would have been no
Carranza to interfere with the thin
column of American troopers stretched
across the desert.
"My opponents sometimes ask me
what would do in Mexico" the Colonel
said at the beginning of his address to
a great and friendly audience, recruited
from ranches near the Mexican border.
"Well, they never ask me twice.
81 would have done in Mexico what
we did in Cuba. | told Spain that
murder in Cuba would have to stop. II
did stop. When there was war there
was war. Afterward. when there was
reace there was peace. II was not
necessary for any one to ask what was
going on in Cuba always like TO fin
ish a Job. When we were through We
were through.
No Tap on Wrist
when Villa made his raid on Colum-
bus I would have said to Mr.. Csrranza
and mind you, my friends, II | had
been President at the beginning OF TINS
Mexican crisis there would have been
no Carranza to deal with would
have told Carranzs that General
Pershing and our troops were going IN
TO get Villa" 80
That's boy, Teddy" cried Tank
raw-boned cattle driver, leaning
against the outdoor platform.
They'd have got villa, too" added
the Colonel. "They would not have
gone into Mexico TO tap him on the
wrist and tell him how naughty he had
been"
roar of Arizona laughter greeted
this.
"A good motto for us all, my friends
is never TO hit unless it is necessary
but when you do hit, hit hard. Never
hit soft. It doesn't pay. | would have
said to Pershing, You're going IN ana
you're not going TO be molested. II
Mr. Carranza had said that we couldn
use the railroads, I'd have REPLIED
That's Just what we are gong TO uSe'
your railroads. If he had said that
we couldn't go into certain towns Iu
have said That's just what we are
going TO do-go into these towns
do Up Those Bandits
"lf at Parrsl or at Carrizal any
American troops had been killed wear
ING the uniform of the United States
army. I'd have instructed General
Persbing: You do up those bandits
and YOU needn't be particular about the
brand II would not have made the
gllQhteSt Oil ItItilCc " nv
ustas or Carranzistas we're punisheo
for the murder of our soldiers.
81 think that explains fairly what
would have done in Mexico. Isn't that
middling straight doctrineY
The crowd shouted its approval.
With these words the Colonel tested
the tempers Of his audience before be-
ginning to read his prepared address,
in which he hammered home his famil-
lar indictments against the Wilson Ad-
ministration.
Safe to Kill Americans
Ranchmen and cowboys swarmed IN
here to swell the Roosevelt day
crowd, but proof of the passing OF the
most of Remingtons drawings and
Owen Wister's stories was printed IN
the local newspapers-careful dlrec-
tions TO visitors how to park their
automobiles. The cowboys mostly rode
40 town in cars. In the crowd are
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