The copper era and Morenci leader. [volume] (Clifton, Ariz.) 1911-1929, 1916-06-09

some of the entries: American Fish
ing Boats Seized" American Fish
ermen jailed American Sailors
Charge Tortures. 1t was in June
OF 1906 that occurred the browning
''infamy"-as Roosevelt would have
called it if it had taken place under
Wilson. Read this: How Ameri-
cans died at Cananea." And then, oh
shame-faced Americans, read this:
Root denies American troops to Can
anea."
There had been a murderous out
break at the Cananea mines. Sever
al Americans were killed. What did
the impelled American survivors
10? They sent to Washington,
through the American consul at Can
anea, a telegram urgently calling for
help. Even the Mexican governor
of Sonora was reported as asking
that the United States government
happened? Why, Secretary Root con-
suited tine Chief of Staff, and the
law officer of the War Department"
think of the disgrace of actually
looking up the law;-and decided
that American trops must not cross
the line. Imagine t, Un,l Sam
putting on pigtail like that, when
Roosevelt was president.
That this was a cowardly and alb
ject policy we know on the highest
authority. For it was Mr.. Roosevelt
himself who laid down the eternally
righteous principle in that same
speech of his to the Methodists. Re-
fering to the fact that Americans
had been killed in Mexico while Will
son was president, he said:
IF the very first time such an in
cident occurred, we had acted wi h
instant decision and crossed the Dor
der, not within two or three days,
but thirty minutes afterward, had in
flicted immediate punishment on the
tenders, punishment of a kind
which would have shown the extreme
unwisdom of repeating the offense,
there would never have been repe-
tition of the offense.
Certain foolish pacifists at home
would undoubtedly have been lacaka-
daisical over the action, but it would
have saved hundreds of lives"
Alas my brethren, the very first
time was when Roosevelt was presi-
dent, and instead of acting with in
slant decision and crossing the bor-
der in thirty minutes, he paltered
with the affair like a lackadaisical
pacifist and would not send the
troops at all though they were de-
manded by the beleaguered Ameri-
cans at Cananea. The great doctrine
of 1916 was trampled upon in 1906 by
the very man who now propounds it.
What are we to say about such dis
plays of inconsistency by Col. Roose-
welt Do they prove that he is an
unblushing liar? That would be far
too Simple an explanation of his COM
pick psychology. He believes only
what he wishes heartily to believe.
His memory is so excellent that it re-
tains nothing that it would be I'M
pleasant for him to remember. And
when the records are brought out
which seem to prove that he has
stullified himself no one is more sur
prised than he.
He is so startled that he at once
sets out to show that the records
have ben falsified, or at at any rate
mean something very different from
what they appear to on their face.
We know how he dealt with the let
ters of Dear Maria and the Harri-
man documents. Within a few weeks
we have seen how he forgot the ap-
proval of President Wilson's Belgian
policy which he published in Septem-
Der 1914 Naturally, then, he could
dispose of the Mexican facts, adduced
above They either never existed or
have been wickedly perverted.
Granted: but still does it not remain
rather a pity, and a mystery, that
Col. Roosevelt is so violent in de-
nouncing in others sins which in him
self are the highest of virtues?