Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-11-03


frankness of the statement is COM
mendable in comparison with the
words of President Wilson, who con-
ceals the true meaning of his policy
by honeyed phrases in diplomatic
notes, and by his contradictory
speeches at home.
''This new Wilson policy is sor-
did and base. He says he wishes
for friendly political and trade re-
lations with the world. He would
have our citizens go forth and trade
for their and our benefit, but they
must do so at their own peril, while
we sit snugly at home reaping the
rewards of their labor, and send
notes when they are murdered. Such
policy breeds the worst traits in
men and stamps nation with cow
ardice.
Heard Their Stories.
st have just come from the border,
where I have talked with men and
women who have personally expert
enced the results of this new policy.
The dreadful story of Mexico and
American citizens in Mexico during
this administration proves the folly
of the Wilson policy.
During the past twenty-five years
our government, through it's con-
sular officials in Mexico, published
information about Mexico, explained
how and where trade could be de-
veloped with profit to the men and
women who might go to Mexico, as
we'll as to our manufacturers at
home. The Mexican people needed
and asked for capital to aid in build
ing their railroads, developing their
industries and opening their country.
Acting under the belief that the
American government would protect
it's citizens and their interests,
American citizens invested hundreds
of millions in Mexico, and thousands
of sturdy, 1aw-abiding American
citizens, with their families, went to
Mexico.
without doubt, some bad men
went to Mexico. and some invest
| ments were crooked, just exactly as
other bad men stayed at home and
did badly. But when President Will
son condemns Americans in sweep
| ing terms as adventures who are
dishonesty exploiting Mexico, his
charge is not only unsupported by
| the facts, but it is a subterfuge to
keep mems minds away from the hor-
rible murders and Outrages OF Amer
| lean men, women and children in
Mexico
"The bald truth is that the Wilson
policy of refusal to protect American
| citizens is itself primarily responsible
for these murders and outrages. 1t
| is impossible to separate the protec-
ton of life and property. Attack
| upon and destruction of one inev-
itably endangers the other. Both
must be protected if either is to be
really safeguarded. The Wilson pol
icy is responsible for the murder of
our citizens on the high seas and in
Mexico: for the killing of the women
| and children on the Lusitania by
| German submarine; for the killing
of our soldiers at Carrizal.
At War in Mexico.
The claim that the Wilson policy
| has kept us out of war is another
high-sounding phrase not supported
| by the facts. Mexico is not at war
| with France, Germany, or Great Brit
ain--yet the citizens of those nations
are not murdered or outraged as are
our American citizens. Even the
bandits of all factions in Mexico have
| a wholesome respect for men and
| women whose governments have the
| will and the courage to respect them.
"Chinamen alone in Mexico have suf-
| fered as have Americans. The Wilson
policy instead of keeping US out OF
| war with Mexico, has kept us in actual
| armed conflict with Mexico. A war in
actual fact, but war waged under
| conditions of unpreparedness, weak
ness and vacillation that have earned
| for us the contempt and hatred of all
Mexican factions.
1.-The new Wilson policy of non-pro-
| lection led him into other difficulties
in dealing with Mexico. Every course
| that has been pursued in that unfor-
| tunate country has been abandoned.
| There has been neither consistency nor
persistency in his actions. The SUI
preme infamy is to be found not so much
| in his Intervention to destroy Huerta,
| but in the fact that after he had de-
| stroyed the only government in Mexico,
| he was too weak to meet the conse-
uuences of his own act and left the
Mexican people with no government
| strong enough to protect life or prop.
erty. He speaks of his passion for
| the down trodden Mexican, but by his
| weakness, his support of first one fac.
| ton and then another, he has been the
| chief cause for the existing misery,
| poverty and anarchy in Mexico.
Until the Wilson policy is aban-
| doned and we return to the straight
| path of absolute protection of Ameri-
| can citizens and their interests, we
| need not hope for peace in or with
| Mexico.
"'The foundation of liberty is obedi'
| ence to law and obedience to law is