The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-07-07
Former BrunswiCkian Gives
Most interesting Talk on
The Republic.
HAS TROUBLE EXTENSIVELY
w. j. Dangaix Stops On His
Way to New York-TeIls of
Trip to South America.

w. j. Dangaix, former well known
| Brunswickian, who left this city when
a young man, is again here spending
a few days on his way to New York
Mr.. Dangaix has travelled considerably
since leaving Brunswick years ago,
and during the past four years has
made his home in Paris, France.
His travels have taken him far into
the south and as far into the frozen
north. Mr.. DangaiX went from Bruins
wcik, where he spent the days of his
youth, to Birmingham. He engaged
in the insurance and banking business
there and made a most successful ca
reer. While here Mr. Dangaix gave
The News most interesting inter
view:
81 have just finished a continuous
tour of over year through Latin
American and several islands of the
| Caribbean in which | visited every re-
public to the south of us with the
exception of little Ecuador, which
avoided owing to the need to land at
pestilential Guayquil and Mexico for
fear of 'greaser' bullets SO freely en-
| plOyed on the despised 'gringo, he
said
EARLY in May, 1915, JUS before sail
ing from Lisbon, Portugal, for Brazil
| was an unwilling witness to a revo-
luton there in which several hundred
people were killed, many in front of
my hotel, in the bombardment of the
| city by the rebel navy and in three
days of street fighting. This unpleas-
ant experience gave no taste to at
tempt travels in revolutionary Mexico
[ am glad to note that The News is
SO outspoken not only in the burning
need to intervene in Mexico without
further delay, but to assume perma-
nent control of the country.
| Zone hears today the same short
sighted objections urged in the early
forties against our legitimate expan-
sion southwark, but where is the
American who does not appreciate the
| tremendous Importance to us as a ma
tion of having acquired Texas, Cali
fornia, Arizona and New Mexico?
| Mexico, with most alluring and un-
limited opportunities for development
would become thoroughly American
lied in far less time that was the
large territory acquired in 1916. OF
course the despotic dictators, outrag-
eous grafters and corrupt politicians
of Mexico and Central America who
thrive upon the ignorance of the
wretchedly depressed masses will
make every effort to increase the ha-
tired and fear of the invading 'gringo',
and these impossible rulers may we'll
quake in their knees as popular senti-
ment in the United States is rapidly
crystallizing under the forcing pro-
cess of events by which no political
party will dare shirk the responsible.
ty upon us to first clean up Mexico
and eventually every foot of territory
between us and the Colombian Dor
der.
No Spirit of Imperialism.
"This will not be done in any spirit
of Imperialism or unjust aggrandize-
ment but rather through the destiny
imposed upon us to bring these gov
ernments up to reasonable modern
standards and offer the miserably poor
ignorant masses the chance to enjoy
some reasonable measure of life and
happiness even in spite of themselves
"The great boon we have been to
Cuba and Porto Rico, evidenced by 9
degree of prosperity and happiness
heretofore undreamed of among the
people of these charming islands, is a
shining example of what we have q
greater right to enforce upon Mexico
and Central America. Besides, a prop
er regard for our own tranquility de
mands that we abandon the policy
the dog in the manger.
"The European nations will emerge
from this distressing war with a new
and aggressive spirit in which they
will not longer submit to our supine
ness in refraining from just enforce
met of law and order and decent gov
erments in Mexico and Central Amer
lea while denying them, and much
less an Asiatic power, the right to dc
= so. We must either fulfill these
world demands and insure outside ma
tions, as well as ourselves, reasonable
protection of life and their large in
lterests. or abandon our boastful en-