The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-05-19
MR.. ROOSEVELT OVERLOOKS
SIMILAR TRANSGRESSIONS

In Colonel Roosevelt's address to
the Methodists the other evening
his latest concio ad clerum-he appar-
emily followed the model of Lacor-
daire. For it was of him that Guizot
wrote: His history and theology
were full of originality. Indeed, they
were absolutely original, for he in
vented them as he went on. This gave
to his sermons the charm of perpetual
novelty"
TO the credulous Methodists Mr..
Roosevelt made this statement:
Il was President seven and a
half years. This nation during all
that time never for one moment
permitted any Power to wrong
this country or TO wrong Amer1-
cans either in their persons or
property or to make us recreant to
| our duty to others; and yet dur
those seven and half years not
| one shot was fired by any man in
American uniform against any tor
eipn foe, and not one American
man, woman or child, was slain by
representatives of any foreign ma
ton"
His reference was to Mexico. Very
we'll, turn to the Tribune index tor
1904, under Mexico" We lind the
entry, July %, 1.-TWO Americans Shot. :"
In the year 1905, the record for. Janu,
airy Is is 81. A. Sanger Murdered,
and for January p. "Yaquis Kill -Four
Americans" But the tell-tale year is
1906. the insults" to our flag. were
piled thick. Here are some of the en-
tries: American Fishing Boats Are
Seized; american Fishermen Jail
Co
lures" 1t was in June of l9Oo thai
occurred the GROWING "infamy"
Roosevelt would have called it 1t II
had taken place under Wilson. Rcao
: this: How Americans Died at Can
anea." And then, oh, shametacee
Americans, read this Root Denies
American Troops to Cananea!
Cowardly Policy.
There had been murderous out
break at the Cananea mines. Severa
y Americans were killed. What did tn
imperilled American survivors do
:, They sent to Washington, through tn
American consul at Cananea, tele
!. gram urgently calling for help Evel
: the Mexican governor of Sonora wa
u reported as asking that the Unite
, States government send in militar
!, force. But what happened? Why
Secretary Root consulted the Chief Q
= Staff. and the "the law officer of tn
y War Department"-think of the dis
y grace of actually looking up the law
: and decided that. American troop
must not cross the line" Imagine i
: Uncle Sam putting on peg-tail hk
> that, when Roosevelt was President
That this was a cowardly and alb
: iect policy, we know on the highess
e authority. For it was Mr.. Roosevelt
S himself who laid down the eternal
{ righteous principle in that same speec
q of his to the Methodists. Reterrin
u to the fact that Americans had bee
e killed in Mexico while Wilson wa
:, President, he said:
If, the very first time such an
incident occurred, we had acted
with instant decision and crossed
n the border, not within two or three
u days, but thirty minutes alter
IS ward, had inflicted immediate
u punishment on the offenders, pun.
ishmcnt of kind which would
have shown the extreme unwis-
lc dom of repeating the offence
a there would never have been a re-
* petition of the offence.
E. Certain foolish pacifcts at home
t. would undoubtedly have been
S, lackadaisical over the action, but
is it would have saved hundreds OF
W lives"
lie Forgets His Own Career.
err Alas, my brethren, the very hr
ut time was when Roosevelt was pres
ne dent, and instead of acting with /
&C slant decision and crossing the DO
ne der in thirty minutes, he palter
r.. nrl.n Ant StI>
ly pacihst and would not send the troo
ed at all though they were demanded
ed the beleaguered Americans at Ca
is. anea. The great doctrine Of 1916 W
or trampled upon in 1906 by the We