Weekly journal-miner., 1916-01-26
MEXICAN POLICY A SERIES OF
 BLUNDERS
PRESIDENT PERSISTS IN CARRYING OUT HIS VIEWS, RESULTING IN RECENT MASSACRE.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. - The brutal murder of Americans and oth- CTS in Mexico can occasion no sur prise to those familiar with conditions there and who have not been misled by the spacious sophistries expound' cd from the White House.
 From the beginning of his admins tration, President Wilson has been warned by everyone whose advice was worthy of respect that the Mexican "revolutionists" were merely bandits, wholly unworthy Of the slightest en- couragement from the United States. At least two members of Mir. Win sons own cabinet, Messrs. Garrison and Lane. nave repeatedly implored him to stop the supply of arms to these bandits, and all those best in formed ol the situation warned him that if he persisted in his detcrmina' tion to oust Hucrta chaos and an- archy and unspeakable outrages would follow.
 Mir. Wilson turned a deaf ear to these warnings, caused the insurgents to be supplied with the very guns which arc now being used to murder American citizens, employed the army and navy to drive Huerta out. publicly declared that the Mexicans must be free to take as many lives as they wished, issued repeated warnings to insurgcnt leaders that they would be held personally responsible" for the killing of Americans, and never even attempted to make good his words.
 He treated with Villa, despite his well known brutal character and his record as a murderer, and finally. when public criticism of President Wilson became too severe in this country. he recognized as president, Carranza, who had never missed an opportunity to flaunt and insult the United States and who possessed no single qualification as a ruler. As a result Of Mir Wilson's policy, the Mexican bandits nave naturally come firmly to believe that tne sport least likely to be attended with harm to themselves Is the killing of Ameri- cans. The unintelligent Mexican re- gards the United States with hatred and contempt, and the intelligent Mexican holds this country, and right ly so. responsible for a large share oi the terrible suffering to which the Mexican people have been subjected. They realize that 1t was President Wilson's ''butting i'll" which alone has placed their country at the mercy or the cutthroats and outlaws which now terrorize 1t.
 According to a reputable newspaper correspondent, Mark s. Watson, sent to Mexico by the New York Sun and the Chicago Tribune, and now there, the Wilson administration has not hesitated to give out statements re gariing Mexican conditions which it knew to be false, in order to deceive the American people into believing that things arc less bad than they are Mir. Wilson reports that there are 60.O00 cases of typhus III Mexico City alone, which at the present death rate will mean at least 12,000 deaths, and the chief responsibility for this co1di- ton rests on Carranza. who would not let the American Red Cross deal with the situation at the start, and on President Wilson, who forced the Carranza regime on the Mexican people
 Ever since Mir. Wilson recognized Carranza, Americans nave been killed and outraged almost daily. generally by the Villaistas, sometimes by tie Carranzistas. but in all instances with out Carranza - who hates and de spises Americans as much as Villa raising hand to prevent it. Only when the bandits murder Americans in blocks Of fifteen or twenty, and the newspapers widely herald the fact, does President Wilson pause in his scheming to make personal political capital out of the European situation long enough to take heed of tine wan ton outrages perpetratcd on American citizens just across the border.