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


war?
Nonsense Veriest nonsense.
Furthermore, is this not an appea
to some latent strain of supposed de.
generacy in the American blood rath.
er than one to its virillty and patrio.
tism?
For four years ] was American am.
bassador to Mexico. l saw the fall Of
Diaz. | saw the rise and fall of Ma
dero and the ascendency and decline
Of Huerta | carried on the official
negotiations between America and
Mexico during the boodiest revolu-
tions through which the country to
the south of us has passed.
Wilson keep this country out of
war? He did not
The statement is simply play up
and fathers Of this country; play
for votes.
But did anyone keep us out of war
with Mexico? Why are 10000 Amerl-
can troops on Mexican soil and 10000
American boys along the border?
What Of the 1925, 100000 we have ex-
pended in this peaceful" war? What
of the lives of American soldiers
more than were lost in the two years
war with Spain, that have been sacri-
feed along the Rio Grande and be-
yond?
Did anyone keep us out Of war with
Mexico? / say the claims that the
administration kept us out of war is
a preposterous falsehood because we
have already been twice at war with
Mexico since Mr.. Wilson has been in
the White House.
Vera Cruz Invasion.
We landed troops at Vera Cruz and
kept them there for more than two
months for the purpose of overthrow
Ing the government Of Huerta. If we
had landed soldiers at Liverpool or
Hamburg, does anyone doubt how orr
actions would have been interpreted
by the governments of Great Britain
or Germany?
We sent 10000 troops. practically
all our available regulars, across the
Rio Grande and they are there today.
We dragged 100000 unwilling national
guardsmen to the border and so 600
are there now We are today employ
ing more men against. Mexico than we
used in the Mexican war of 1S47.
And some democratic leaders. play
ing for votes try to tell us President
Wilson kept us out of war.
What nonsense.
Carranza has fought us and has
rained blow after blow upon us. Villa |
has Tough us and has murdered our
citizens and outraged our women,
even on this side of the border There
has been no actual declaration of war. |
But the thousands of American troops
engaged, the hundred million dollars
expended, the unmarked graves along
the Rio Grande, all point to the fact
that we are actually in state of war
with Mexico today.
Wilson Wants Votes.
Wilson keeps us out of war? Wilson
wants votes.
Wilson did not even keep us out of
war with Germany. That was done
~ the Kaiser himself As a fact we
we're physically unable to go to war
With Germany. 1t was not our ships
ma armies that Germany dreaded. 1t
vas our economic power and the au-
hority to wage this economic war
ay in the hands of the president. New
rtheless, we should have Numbered
nto war with Germany, as every
eading man knows. but for the
rompt action of the Kaiser In other
lords, 1t was the Kaiser who kent us
ut of war with Germany and not the
resident of the United States. And
ne same may be said of Austria.
Emperor Francis Joseph prevented
ar between Austria and America. not
resident Wilson.
That we are not at war with both
ermany and Austria, right now Is
OF to the credit of President Wilson.
he credit is to- the rulers of those
Whenever this admlnistra-
on has had an opportunity to irri-
tie with words. it has done SO, for
resident Wilson studied words all his
fe and is master at stringing them
'gether, But whenever called upon
make its words good with deeds,
ne administration has miserabIy
liled.
Destruction Begun.
Returning to Mexico and to the
Carranza, the legitimate
lccessor of Madero, upheld and
lshed forward by the same interests
lat were behind Madero. Madero's
'Vernment was supposed to be cor
itutional and to recognize interna. c
onal usages. With the advent Of
arranza and Villa the work of de- "A
ruction began.
The Carranza government is pledge
the ruin of the Roman Catholic u.
l.