The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-20

l Dudley Field Malone. collector or the port of New York, says that Mrs.
 Nelson oshahghnessy, who is now on !; tour in the "Woman's Millionaire Special" is criticizing the present 'ad-
 ministration because her husband
 was not made minister abroad. He
 says, moreover, that Nelson
 O'Shaughnessy, former charge d'af-
 faires in Mexico City, told him at least dozen times that he did not believe Huerta should be recognized. MT. Malone is making a speaking tour of the state and in an interview defended the Presidents course in Mexico from the Catholic standpoint particularly. "I remember" said MT. Malone, "that when President Wilson refused to recognize Huerta one of the three Catholic cardinals of the United States said, President Wilson stood on high moral ground in refusing rec ognition to Huerta.' President Will
 son refused to recognize Huerta on the
 ground tfMt a standard should be
 set, thereby for all Latin America
 that the United States would never
 again give its moral support to any
 despot who seized the liberties of his people by murder and assassination"
 When our army and navy oc-
 cupied Vera Cruz they did so. to back
 up the demand of an American ad-
 miral,. Mayo. and they did not occupy
 Vera Cruz to get salute to the flag,
 but to thrash Huerta for his insult
 to our sailors and for his refusal to give the salute to Admiral Mayo when demanded. We came out of Vera Cruz after order had been estab- lished and after Huerta had been driven out of the country because it was the fixed policy of this admins tration not to enter upon al war of occupation in Mexico. Finally after long months of waiting with the President trying to save the country from the loss of thousands of Amer ican lives on Mexican battlefields in a war of intervention, the great Re- publics of Latin America offered to cooperate and bring about peace in l Mexico.
 Delegates from these countries | represented all the people in Latin | America who were Spanish in racial | origin and Catholic in religion and | consequently sympathetic with the | suffering Mexican people. And it was | not until after the delegates represent I ing the Spanish and Catholic peoples | of Latin America insisted that be- | cause he controlled more territory | and resources than all the other lead l CTS put together, that Carranza should | be recognized-it was not until then | that MT. Lansing and the President | agreed to recognize Carranza. "It is true there have been innumerable | outrages in Mexico. But men and | women have been murdered by tho trained soldiery of the nations attwaf | in Europe on both sides of the con. troversy and church property ha. been destroyed in every battle-scarred ] country.
 "When MT. Lincoln was President, | he said he had thousands of claims | on his desk for the loss of Ameri- can lives and property, and in adti- ton a member of the American lega- ton had been murdered. But Mr. | Lincoln told the new minister he was | sending to Mexico to assure the Mexi- can people that he would not press | those claims at that time because he | said: "A Republican form of govern
 nent may, only prevail after a long trial, and the Mexican people have a l right to expect greater sympathy from us than from any other quarter on earth"
 MT. Malone said of the criticism made by Nicholas Longworth in a speech in New Haven of the Wilson
 policy in Mexico as "the blackest page in our history that the con
 gressman did not realize the criticism
 he was heaping on the immortal Lin-
 coin, and when Longworths father in-law, MT. Roosevelt, criticizes the