The Glasgow courier., 1916-10-27

| were INUNDATED for daring to tell
the truth.
eve are only sheep" they say, 1--WE
are not permitted to talk but we
could"
Some of them, Colonel Dan Dono-
hue for instance, go as far as they
can
Intervention in Mexico by the
United States is a certainty, said the
Commander Of the Second Montana
He expects to see Carranza removed
from power within ninety days. "The
border has not been pacified" he says,
"and the resumption Of the disturbance
es that called out the national guards
men of America is probable, bringing
the likelihood that the guard may have
to return"
Colonel Dnoohue, in discussing the
state of affairs on the border said:
"People at home in the United States
know nothing Of conditions on the
border. Mexicans and Mexican SOL
diers are permitted to cross the line
into this country, but our soldiers are
forbidden to enter Mexico on pain of
court martial. For miles the border
is not patrolled, barb wire fence be-
ing the only barrier to smugglers of
arms, who can cut it and enter Mexico
with contraband at any time"
That from the commanding officer
of the Second Montana.
Now read the words of Major
Charles N. Sargent, who was asked
what the men really did while away.
"What did we do down there" re-
piled Major Sargent, bl'isteling. "What
in He'll could we do except cut mes
quite and lay out a camp site? We
had orders not to shoot if we were
shot at. The Mexicans stood just
across the line and dared US to cross
over"
"The people know nothing about
what is going on down there because
it is Icing kept from them. The
newspapers are being given no in
formation whatever. Ammunition is
being carted across the border as fast
as they can carry it. Carloads of it
goes out from Douglas every night.
"Carranza does not control any of
the northern states. Fifty per cent
of the soldiers are really with Villa.
There is not a day passes but what
some American is killed along the
line. The Mexicans said to US we
have killed your soldiers, ravished
ycpr women and stolen yonr cattle
what else can we dc to make you
fight
we have got to go in 1heie Just
as sure as shooting, and it might as
Wei be now as a year from now"
Patriotism is the uppermost thought
of today's civilization. Founded up-
on the lroven knowledge that from
the death of the few .he many may
benefit, it's practice results upon the
chivalrous giving of human life. A
thing without price, it is supposed 10
stand above all thought of political
cnicanery CT selfish wish. Without
it nation. must cease to function.
Yet they know, and we know, that
the Mexican situation is just as it was
before-a turmoil of bloodshed among
an adjoining people.
Our boys tell US that they labored
for months under torrid sun for the
building Of camp, in which, on it's
completion, they lived few weeks;
they feel that the deprivation and
! hardship they have undergone, to-
gether with the loss of time, is effort
wasted. Deeper down they know that
their patriotism has been made a cheap
thing with which high state and ma
tional politicians attempt to juggle.
And the thing that most hurts these
men who have been brought back from
unfought battlefields, is the knowledge
that because Of the political expedien.
cy of those in power in Montana and
in Washington, in all of Mexico Old
Glory still is traled through the in
sulting dust, still is soiled by the
blood of those of our people who died
believing in the Flags sacredness and
power and glory.
II ought to be significant thing
to those Of us who stayed at home
and yet who still have the might to
do. that the Montana Regiment ex-
presses it's disgust and political de-
sire in the single sentence-"We want
to get homeland VOTEw
This is the condition that confronts
all the soldiers Of the Montana Regi-
mental the citizens Of Montana.
We have all been jobbed !!
Among the Montana boys who have
just returned from the border is Frank
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