The Coconino sun., 1916-10-20
WITH INSIDE INFORMATION
 ROOSEVELT HAYS WILSON

Mexico. will be that we shall find our
 selves saddled with debt of billion
 and a half of dollars; while already
 many more of our people have been
 killed than were killed in the war with Spain; and our policy has been ruino- us to Mexico, dishonorable to our selves and infamous from the stand
 point of humanity; while not the
 slightest progress toward a perman-
 ent settlement has been made.
 In dealing with foreign nations, if
 we are to retain our self-respect, and
 protect our citizens, the first essential
 is that when we speak it shall be un- derstood that we mean what we say.
 In his speech at West Point on June 2d last, President Wilson said: "Man- kind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says" Most emphatically mankind will never know this as long as MT
 Wilson is President.
 On August 27th, 1913, he direct
 the American Consul General in Mexico to notify all Mexicans officials that "they will be held strictly re- sponsible for any injury done to any American, or for injury done to their property" On February 10th, 1915, he sent his first note to Germany as regards the use of submarines in sinking merchant vessels, warning Germany that in case an American vessel or the life of an American citi- zen should be destroyed by German submarine, the United States would hold the Imperial Government to "strict accountability" At the same time Secretary of State Bryan, ac- cording to his published statement, informed the Austro- Hungarian Am bassador Dumba that the note was intended merely for "home consump- tion," and was not to - taken se- riously by Germany, and he reported his conversation to President Wilson, who approved of it. This makes an interesting gloss on MT. Wilson's statement that Mankind is going to know that when America speaks she means what she says"
 On March 28th, 1915, the steam ship Falaba was torpedoed, and of the one hundred and eighteen persons drowned, two were Americans. On May 1st, 1915, the Gulfight, an American vessel, was torpedoed with out warning by a German submarine, and the lives of three persons on board lost. On May 7th the Lusita- mia was torpedoed, and thirteen hun dred and ninety-six persons were drowned. But President Wilson did not make mankind know that when America speaks she means what she says" On the contrary, he selected this as the appropriate occasion for his remark about being "too proud to fight" He did not hold Germany to strict accountability. He did not hold her to any accountability, strict or loose. He wrote notes. We have the authority of Mir. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, for saying that mote writing has not proved success." President Wilson's first note to Ger many was on May 18th. Germany answered it on May 25th by torpedo ing the Nebraskan, an American ves- sel. onN June 9th, President Wilson sent his second note, and on July 21st a third. Germany answered these notes on August 18th by sinking the Arabic, drowning forty-one persons, including two Americans; and on Sep tember 9th, the Hesperian, twenty-six persons being drowned, including two Americans. On December 30th, the Persia was sunk, the number of lives lost being three hundred and thirty eight, including two Americans, one of them a Counsel-General. Other vessels have since been sunk. No atonement has been made by Ger many; and in more than one case the report that the captain of the submarine has been promoted or decorated as a reward.
 So much for the "strict accountabil- ity" to which Germany was to be held. The "strict responsibility" to which Mexico was to be held resulted in precisely similar manner. While Germany was drowning between one and two hundred Americans, and a couple of thousand other non-com- batants who were at sea, the Mexi- cans were killing a somewhat larger number of Americans, and still larger number of other non-combat- ants on land. President Wilson did not hold Germany to "strict account. ability in one case, and he did not Il i ll sL IL. sA.,O