Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-28


policy Of the Congress of the Unite'
States that the Republic of the Unite'
i States will withdraw as an interfering
: power in Mexico will withdraw as al
interfering power in Nicaragua; vii
withdraw as an interfering power II
Honduras, and say to the Republic
of Central America and Mexico, WI
will respect the integrity of you
governments; we will approach you
borders only when asked to do so al
your friend we recognize and respec
the sovereignty of your states and WI
| will never come to you except as ar
older brother and in respect to YOU
government and integrity of your ter.
ritory," and then / said, 1--WE would
stand ready at all times, however, tC
protect our own citizens In Mexico, fol
| that Is a wholly different matter thar
| that which Is involved in interfering
with the internal affairs of Mexico
| We should say to Mexico we expect
| you to protect our citizens and protect
their property, and having done so we
will respect the integrity of Mexico In
every conceivable way" Having taken
| that position, l assume the same posi-
| ton here tonight. There are just two
principles which should have guided
us with reference to Mexico in this
in my judgment, uncontrovertible, and
upon which we could have proceeded
with safety to our own people and
without being involved with the Next
can people. First: AS l have said, we
should have stated to Mexico you pro-
tect our citizens, give them security
and having done so work out your own
salvation. But you say 1t might have
led to war. Not at ALL There is no
nation so low in savagery that it does
not respect the nation which insists
upon the protection of its own citizens
(Applause.)
WHAT BLAINE SAID.
Let me give you an illustration.
When Jas. G. Blaine was Secretary of
State he appointed man by the name
of Morgan as ambassador to Mexico.
Morgan was a brother of the famous
Morgan who was on the Confederate
side in the Civil war, but this Morgan
had remained loyal to the Union, and
Mr.. Blaine appointed him as ambas-
sador to Mexico. While Mr.. Morgan
was ambassador to Mexico some Am
orleans were murdered or massacred
In or near Mexico City. What did Mr..
Blaine do? He sent a telegram, a
copy of which l have upon my desk,
saying to Mr.. Morgan-I have forgot
ten his initials-ambassado to Mexi-
co: You will yourself please read this
message to the secretary of the for
eign affairs of Mexico The United
States demands that Mexico protect
its citizens, not next week, not tomor-
row, but now, and unless 1t does so,
the United States will come there to
give its citizens the protection which
they are entitled to. (Applause.)
Mo- dar nd
that (Laughter.) They could COM
prehend that proposition, but they
seem to have difficulty in following
this interminable labyrinth of this
school of international correspondence.
(Laughter.)
WHAT CLEVELAND SAID.
Let me give you another illustra-
ton. When Mr.. Cleveland was Presi-
dent of the United States, lieutenant
of the Mexican army pursued Mexi-
can girl across the border into the
United States and seized her and drag
ged her back across the line. She was
Mexican girl, but she was on the
territory of the United States and for
the time being under the protection
of the stars and stripes. What did
Cleveland do. He sent telegram di-
recting a sufficient portion of the
American army to move to the Mexi-
can border, with instructions to the
commander In charge to get that lieu
tenant, II he had to go to Mexico City
and get him. What was the result?
They could comprehend the simple
language of Grover Cleveland, and the
Mexican lieutenant was sent to the
penitentiary for twenty years. There
was a time, my friends, when to vio-
late the integrity of the territory of
the United States or offer an insult to
the stars and stripes meant action, and
Mexico, knowing that fact, respected
the demands of the United States and
yielded to the suggestion of it's sover-
eign.
OUTRAGES ON AMERICANS.
Why are we the most hated people
in Mexico? Why should we, living
upon the border, and a northern Re-
public, large brother, be most hated
of all people? l have an affidavit
of young mining engineer, who was
in charge of a mine in Mexico. He
had some 1875 people, Americans,
working for him. Some of these ban
dts, our friends, I suppose, took pos
session of the mine and demanded a
tribute of $4,000. He didn't have
that amount of money so they corral
led the men, women and children-put
them in a corral over night, and held
them there for the purpose of deter
mining the next morning what they
should do in case the $50 900 was not
paid. The next morning they return
ed and demanded $4,000, which was
still more than he could pay. During
this parley 1t was learned that there
was a German citizen among these
men, who had been in the corral over
night. What did these bandits do?
They took the German citizen out
from among the American citizens,
and sent him safely on his way. Why
they knew that whatever other fault
or criticism may be assessed against
the German government that 1t pro-
tects it's citizens wherever they may be
found upon the face of Gods earth
(Applause.) And so, my friends, had
we stated in the beginning, we will
insist upon the protection of our citi-
zens, and said 1t with that force and
character that Blaine and Cleveland
said it, we would have had our rights
respected, and we wouldn't have had
war either.
l venture to say that if Theodore
Roosevelt had been the President of
the United States, and sent a message
such as he sent to the barbarian ma
ton some years ago, when they cap
tured one of our missionaries when he
said to the barbarian nation: "Give
us the missionary alive or the bandit
dead" If he had sent the message
to Mexico, our rights would have been
respected, and we would not have been