Semi-weekly herald., 1916-10-26
"KEEPING OUT OF WAR, SWAP
PING HORSES" AND THINGS
CBv Porter Emerson Browne.)

(By Porter Emerson Browne.)
You and | are American citizens.
As such, it is not our right, but our
duty, to vote this year for president.
Whereby it were well to look over
the situation, and carefully.
The Democratic party and its cur
rent candidate have been in power A
years. When it came into that pow
er, the United States was respected
and honored by the nations of the
world. When old Uncle Sam came in
to meeting, the rest of the folks sat
up and took notice. He conducted
himself with a firm and quiet digni-
ty. His opinions were honored, and
his sons and daughters were safe
anywhere on earth. OF all world fig
ures, he was of the strongest and
cleanest. wonderful, fine,
old gentleman, loved and respected
and admired.
So was you Uncle Sam, and mine,
when came into power Woodrow Will
son and the Democratic party.
And then what?
First Mexico.
What did the old gentleman, under
the guidance of Woodrow Wilson and
his advisers, do there?
Since its inception Mexico has been
nothing but a gaudy parade of insur-
rection, revolution and slaughter.
Diaz, by killing everybody he didn't
like, ruled it for 80 years. Madero
was too weak to control it. He was
too weak to control it. He was sue
ceeded by Huerta, strong, cold, cruel,
but powerful.
Huerta had $4,000 soldiers and
could have ruled Mexico by the blood
and iron method; which, incidentally,
is the wrong way to rule anybody
or anything, but the only way feas-
ible in a country like Mexico except
policy of Intervention and educa-
ton such as saved the Philippines.
So stood matters. And the world
waited to see what Uncle Sam, the
strong, the fine, the dignified, would
do..........-............A And what he did GER
tainly made 'em gasp!
At first they thought he was sick,
or carry, or something.
Mexico's only chance to work out
even a pseudo-salvatio lay with
Huerta. Uncle Sam took that away.
He march ed his soldiers in one day,
and marched 'em out the next! One
day he belched forth mighty words.
The next, he quietly ate 'eml For
while he backed Villa. Then he back
ed Carranzza. Then he backed out,
leaving them guns and ammunition
with which to kill one another and,
later, Uncle Sans citizensl
Truly the dove of peace that Wood
row Wilson sent into Mexico held no
olive branch. 1t carried a machine
gun under each wing-and boom
erang in its beak.
And then, after he had got every
thing all nicely messed up, and Mex
leo as full of corpses and murder and
horror and blood as a battlefield,
your Uncle Sam runs home and sits
down at his typewriter and begins to
slam out Beautiful Thoughts about
the higher obligations of humanity.
And when his citizens had gone into
Mexico under the protection that he
had specifically promised them, ap-
peal to him to save the lives of their
women and their children, he tells
EN- they'd better come home if they
canl
And there's Mexico today! three
ring debauch Of blood. And all be-
cause the Wilsonized Uncle Sam took
away its one chance Of even a make
shift salvation. and refused to give 1t
an alternative.
He didn't like the doctor personal
ly; he couldn't help the patient. So
he left the stricken thing to suffer
and to die!
So much for Mexico. And with
other nations whati