New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-09-01
NEW MEIXCO'S SENATOR
SPEAKS IN USUAL FORC!-
BILE AND FINISHED MAN
NER. FLAYS HON. J. HAM
MEXICO AFFAIRS
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
WILSON POLICIES SCORED
VIGOROUSLY AND WEAK
NESS SHOWN. LOSS OF
AMERICAN LIVES REVEAL

Senator A B. Fall responding to
speech made in the United States
Senate by Senator Lewis of Illinois
said:
Mr.. Pfesidcut, have just listened
TO the most remarkable political har-
angue which in my limited exper.
ience 7 have ever heard upon the
Stump" and which certainly | had
never expected to hear in the leeis
islative halls of the Congress of the
United States I shall not detain
the Senate only very short time.
shall not attempt to make speech
Mr.. President. and in reply to this
remarkable outburst would be 20
dignity Il But there are some pas
sages in it which l desire to empha-
size IN the record and to which
staa refer for that purpose and that
purpose only
We have been told not only by
the enator. Senator Lewis of Him
ois, through his notice given here
but also through the newspapers Of
the country that the Senator from
Illinois intended to deliver speech
in which he proposed to reply 70 the
address, particularly with reference
TO foreign affairs We have been
told even through the press that the
Democratic campaign committee
woufd use hundreds OF thousands of
COPIES of this speech in the present
caspaign
Mr.. President, understanding the
issue. which the Senator does not
even refer TO- as l think I do, and
~ I think it will be presented to the
people in thu, campaign, I will say
frankly to him first, that if 7 were
conducting the campaign for Mr..
Hughes and could not obtain cop
les of the Senator's speech from him
or from the Phblic Printer I would
expend every cent in the publicity
fund OF the Republican Party for dis.
seninating the speech throughout
the United States. and without an
answer to It, letting it go except as
1t had been answered by the Presi-
dent of the United States himself
and by his secretary of State. With
out an answer, as have said. except
TO take the words of the President
and the other officials of this Gov
erument and OF Carranza himself
Without an answer, say. I would
trust to this speech alone if I was
thinking only Of partisan results to
achieve those results and elect Mr.
Hughes as the President
The Senator belongs to that recent
school of statesmen in this country
developed during the last three years
developed since the minority party
was successful in the last campaign.
who are teaching the doctrine that
patriotism means servility and sub
serviency to your party leader Ex-
act1y, in more respects than one have
6e Democracy of this country or
their leaders placed themselves up
on an equality with those who are
now ruling in Mexico.
Do you hear the word patriotism"
h Mexico? In what term is il ,''-as-
ed "Yo soy Carranzista"-I arT
Carranzista; "Yo soy Villista"-I am
a VilIista: "Yo soy Zapatista"-I am
. zapatista
The old boast for the last IS years
in Mexico upon public OCCASIONS made
BY their orators was not "Long live
Mexico, my country" but "Yo soy
hijo de Porfiro Diaz"II am a son of
Porfirio Diaz.
This class of statesmen who con-
situte the leaders of the Democracy
Of this country would assure their
followers that the campaign cry is
not ri am an AeEiican," but that Il