The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-10-19

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of the committee with Mr.. Wilson
and next day, for my own protection,
] stated my views in the senate, so
that they might become of record in
the archives.
Il do not want war with Mexico. |
do not want to interfere with her in
ternal affairs. Neither do l think we
should interfere with the internal af~
fairs of Honduras or Nicaragua, and I
lave so stated publicly.
I'VE should respect the integrity of
the governments of other nations and
their autonomy, and demand of them
only that they protect the lives and
property of our citizens.
81 have favored an official notifi-
cation to Mexico and all Central and
South America that we 10 not want
their territory and do not care whom
they have as presidents so long as
the lives and properties of Americans
within their boundaries are safe"
How Blaine Managed.
MIR. Borah then told of the famous
telegram of Blaine, then secretary of
state, to the American ambassador to
Mexico on the occasion of an Ameri-
can having been murdered in a re-
mote part of Mexico.
Blaine wired in brief that the Uni
TED States demanded protection for
its citizens, mot next week, not to-
morrow, but today If it is not given
we shall come and give it,"
When Cleveland was president,
Borah detailed, Mexican soldier pur-
sued a Mexican girl across into Am
erican territory and dragged her back
across the line into Mexico. Cleve-
land demanded that the Mexican SOL
der be turned over to the American
authorities and ordered part of the
army to the border with instructions
to get the lieutenant if the pur-
suit led even into Mexico city. The
Mexican lieutenant was turned over to
II is governdent tried, and sentenced
to long term in prison.
Such policies, if adopted by Presi-
dent Wilson, would not have led to
war" said the senator Instead, look
at the trouble we have been caused
by following this school of interna-
tional correspondence.
Now Hated and Despised.
Americans are now the most hated
and despised of all foreigners in Mex
leo. On one occasion 125 American
men. women and children were con-
fined in a corral until a mine owner
could raise sum of money large
enough to ransom them.
"In that crowd was one man who
spoke with an accent and when the
Mexicans found he was a German he
was released. Why? Because they
knew that Germany, no matter what
her faults, would protect any and all
of her citizens with her entire might
in any quarter of the globe"
He then referred to Wilson's note
sent by Lind, telling Huerta, the legal
provisional president of Mexico, to
get out at once. THAT was interven
ton" he declared.
He Protected Americans.
"Who was Huerta?" asked the
ST eaker. 1--WE could neither JUSTIFY
our interference with him in law OF
Conscience. within the territory owe,
which he had control, no American
citizen had been harmed, nor was a
dr. liar of American investment mo-
Tested
1--WE drove Huerta from Mexico be-
oause of the incident at Tampico
when Admiral Mayo demanded a sa'
ute of the flag, and while | dislike tt
saw so. we did not go to Mexico tt
force the salute of the flag. We wen
there to put Huerta out
, He quoted Franklin K. Lane, whom
ba described as being among tn
abIast members of the administration
| az stating: I'VE did not go to Vera
Cruz TO force Huerta to salute tn
= flag. we went to show Mexico that W.
were in earnest in our demands"
I'VE spent $1O,OOO,OOO, lost Il
American citizens and killed 900 Mex
I leans" resumed Borah. Was II war
, what do you suppose the Mexican
, thought it was?
/, Call II "Peace."
, .'He kept us out of war; they say
yrbv we lost less lives in waging wa
against Mexico. 1t was not called wa
q with poor, torn, distracted Mexico