The Clayton citizen. [volume] (Clayton, Union County, N.M.) 1906-19??, 1916-08-24
"soME MORE QUESTIONS"

ing Foolish Questions, we might as
we'll add few more to the list, re-
Gently propounded to Mr.. Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes:
If you had written fourteen sue
cessive notes to Carranza, each de-
manding that he be held to Strict
Accountability for the murder of Am
orleans, and then your typewriter
broke and your fountain pen went dry
and both you and the secretary of
state got writer's paralysis, what
would be your next step?
If you had invaded Mexico, and ia
ken the port of Vera Cruz, and driven
Mr. Huerta out of the presidency, and
shot up some $50 Mexicans, and sent
punitive expedition into the interior
of Mexico, and ordered out all the
militia and regulars of the United
States to the Mexican border, and had
stated that you were in a fighting
mood, and that 81 see no reason to
change our policy of watchful waiting
in Mexico, as it is none of our bust
ness" and lot of vicious vultures had
demanded that you intervene by force
in Mexico, would you have Gone to
War?
If you had been stating for four
years that Americans were exploiting
and robbing Mexico, and looting the
country, and that vultures were caus-
ing Columbus raids to further their
own ends, and that exploiters, looters
and vultures had been exerting terrific
pressure on you for four years to in
tervene in Mexico, and some one
should ask you for the name and ad-
dress and specific offense of one single,
solitary, isolated, separate vulture,
looter, exploiter, robber or war-de
mander, what would you say? Would
you give his name and address and
offense as aforesaid? Or would you
respond merely with one of those
Glittering Generalities of which you
have been accused? What?
If the Honorable Secretary Of Com
merce and Labor should tell you that
one Mr.. Durand had resigned, unasked
and had not been retired, and Mr.. Du
rand should write you a letter saying
that he had been fired, retired, canned
and sacked, and that a successor haC
been appointed, and the Honorabl,
Secretary should not deny it, wha
would you do with the first and prev
ious statement made by the Honorable
Secretary?
/ If you should be in charge of Amer
ican relations with Mexico for fou
years, and interfere, gratiously, in
effectively, futilely, without provoca
r tion and without purpose for fou
years in the affairs of that country
: and should bring the two countries t.
5 war, and American soldiers should b
r. killed by Mexican soldiers, and yo,
{ should at the end of four years plain
4 lively tell the people of the Unite
= States that you don't understand VIII
4 the Mexicans can't be made to trus
r us, what would you think of yoursel
= and when?
If you should get out and tell tn
, people that you were the inventor o
e preparedness, and back up the mos
r elaborate and expensive national de
= fense program ever inaugurated whe
5 the people forced you into it, and the
e come out and say that the nation wa
= at peace with all the world, alway
e would be at peace and "was not threat
e ened from any quarter" ">and that pre-
+. paredness "invites war" and that you
face is sternly set against war for an
S reason, how many bootjacks would
: take to fatten up a lamp-post?
If a hen and a half lay an EGG an
a half in a day ard a half and if th
r Singer tower swings back and fort
four inches in a 6O-mile an hour gall
and the ornithorynchus or duck-bille
platypus is found only in southeast
+ ern Sumatra, and if Reason draws tn
: rifle and Honor Primes the Swor,
how long will it take one war-aerC
: plane with broken pinion to soar S
1 high again Santa Fe New Mexican
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