Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-01
Felix Baca Takes
Issue With Journal


You state in your editorial of the
5lst oct, that III Hughes is elected
it will not be two months after his
Inauguration before the American
army will be headed for Mexico city
and that Hughes means certain i'm
yason Of Mexico.
In the heat Of this campaign many
statements are made based on false
/ premises and without regard to facts.
The above quotations are based on ne
premises whatever and represent spec
ulations pure and simple.
The next statement that Mr..
Hughes has said so in nearly so
many words" is made without regard
| to facts and represents distorted
and biased view. These statements
are pure buncombe, as any dispas-
sionate man knows who reflects and
thinks and who discriminates between
q statement Of fact and an opinion.
Now. my dear Journal why do you
not discriminate between a statement
Of fact and an opinion?
The American army Is already
headed for NXicQ CitX-if to be head
cd means to be some 200 miles south
of the American border with no i'm
mediate prospects of heading back
home.
What would you say TO the state
ment that after the present world
war is over, some of the very nations
MOT ~. az o,ot thor, ttr,. .. ,,ov,
will combine to break and destroy our
Monroe doctrine because the self-ap-
pointed policeman, Uncle sam, had
neglected his duties and was either
too proud TO interfere or preferred to
watchfully wait?
And yet foreign newspapers have
made broad and repeated statements
that after the war it will be the busi-
ness of the European powers to at
tend to the restoration OF order in
anarchistic Mexico and to force a /
reckoning for the saturnalia or de-
struction and damage Of the lives and |
property of their subjects IN Mexico /
The question that naturally sug-
eests itself is. why this attitude to- /
wards your Uncle Sam? Why chal-
lenge our Monroe doctrine?
Some of us believe that tho impo-
toncy and negative quality Of the
present administration have invited
the contempt Of nations to whom we
have read the riot act in a low tone
Of voice so many times without salts
factory results.
There will be reckoning for this
he 18th day Of November, my dear
Journal
If we read the riot act out loud
without apologizing afterwards, there
S no question but what the others (
would stop, look and listen.
Grover Cleveland read the riot act {
o England in the Venezuela contro-
-ersy, and the world knows that the
Monroe doctrine was given a new
ease Of life.
Mankind then learned that the {
Enited States, a young and vigorous
iation, whose traditions and heritage {
lad been the highest type OF national
lonor, had taken its proper place in {
he field of world diplomacy, and the {
ssertion of rights whose surrender
would have Chinafied this nation. {
Why sacrifice now the dignity and
lace gloriously achieved by the re- 3
ublic by servile and spineless policies Q
hat are the contempt and derision Of =
oreign nations? 8
Oh, for a Washington, for old Hick- Q
ny, Jackson, Lincolnl oh, for 3
hughes, o
1t has never been necessary since y
ne present war began for the United o
tates to go to war and the hollow Q
lockery Of "he kept us out of war" o
as lost Its joking force That sIo- Q
m is exploded Just as all vain and q
Did things are exploded o
Yours truly .
FELIX BACA. o
Albuquerque, oct. 81. 9