Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-09

States. The best type or cltizensHlP
who pray for peace ara either shDt
down or forced to join these bands
of robbers, who affiliate first with the
one side and then with the other. The
de facto President and his officers
have virtually no control over large
contingent of their army.
items of thousands of the better
class of Mexican citizenship are In
wardly praying for outside assistance
and at the opportune time will rem
der aid, but to so publicly express
themselves now would invite certain
death.
From study of Mexico's history
for nearly four centuries the evidences
are conclusive in our minds that the
outlook OeaIs no sembianco of hope
and we behave no internal Individual
or collection CT individuals Of that
country can bring the desireed relief.
"We feel that the time has come
when these facts should be presented
to the American Congress and to the
people of the United States. That
any procrastinatioin in firmly dealing
with conditions there in prompt and
decisive action on the part of this
Government will on:y add to the tri.
bulations that have overburdened the
endurance of the American people Of
Mexico along the United States Dor.
| der, and the thousands of representa-
tives or other nations who feel that
in these trying times they have some
claims to protection of this country
as result of the PRONUNCIATION Of the
Monroe Doctrine. We feel also that
from humane point of view the dis
tressing appeals Of the millions OF
Mexicans who are helpless should be
heard. That we would be serving the
Mexican people in aiding them in rid
ding the country of these rowing ban
dts.
"For five years past Mexicans and
Americans have stood in dread of ex-
pressing their opinions either on this
or the other side of the river for fear
of injury to their person or property.
but we feel that the time has come
when we should courageously speak
our sentiments and inso doing will
meet with hearty response from the
people of other nations in Mexico, q
strong contingent of the suffering
poems as we'll as the highest type of
Mexican citizenship.
Question Of Americanism.
"This should not be a question of
politics, but Americanism. Four years
ago the Democrats, Progressives and
their party platforms for the protec-
ton of American citizenship at home
and abroad. Fifteen million voters
approved these declarations at the bal
lot. With present and prospective fu-
ture conditions in Mexico, operating
from only the American side Of the
| river, the entire American army, reg
ulars and militia, could not insure
safety from depredations along the
border, and it would impose an un-
reasonable hardship upon our soldiers
| and incalculable burden and expense
to our people.
1--WE, who with our labor, money,
skill, experience and education have
aided Mexico in the emancipation of
| millions of her poems who thirty or
more years ago were mercilessly ex-
plotted by a very small contingent Of
her own people who had the power;
we, who have seen the wage scale
lifted from 10 or IL cents to dollar
or more per day within single de-
money and given our labor at the ur-
gent solicitation and guarantee of pro-
lection of that country and of the
United States in railways, mines,
shelters, founderies, farms, ranches
and hundreds of other industries that
have given employment to us and to
those impoverished people; we, who
have seen countless schools churches
and educational institutions establish
ed where none existed as result of
money we put in the channels Of in
dustry there, We denounce as abso-
lutely without foundation for truth
the imputations that we were in any
way responsible for the feudalistic
conditions in Mexico And we insist
that rather than exploiting the Mex
lean people we lifted them from
shameful state of exploitation that ex-
listed before our advent there.
1--WE feel that it is inopportune now
to discuss how these conditions were
brought about or how they might have
been averted. The conditions exist
and must be met fearlessly, courage
ously and firmly. Every day of un-
necessary delay will add to the deplor.
able complications for which the ma
tions of the world, under the Monroe
Doctrine, look to the United States
for ultimate relief. The time has come
for prompt, specific and decisive &C.
ton in Mexico and not merely along
the border. American and Mexican
citizens are being forced to sacrifice
their holdings to the moneyed powers
in order that they may exist. Ameri.
cans have been ordered ont Of Mexico
by their own Government which has
announced that they may expect no
further protection there, which is
forcing them to sacrifice their inter-
ests and holdings to the British.
French, Germans, Chinese and Jan
anese, whose governments insist they
remain there and promise hem pro-
lection, irrespective o, the European
complications.
"By force of arms W. are protecting
the American interests in Haiti, Santo
Domingo, Nicaragua, Cuba and the
Philippine Islands and by threatening
ultimatums wee have demanded the
American right of high seas to the
European powers. We can see no rea-
son why our constitutional and treaty
rights should not be similarly extend
ed to the Americans in Mexico and
along the border of the United States
in our own country.
ITO the American Congress and neo.