Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-23

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II =, pAyenporter who IL interested
IN more liberal LIQUOR laws were to
think that he could make his opinions
felt BY voting for the democratic can
didates ne would be in error for the
reason that. taking Iowa as whole,
the democratic party is no longer
saloon party, The record shows that
democrats az we'll as republicans
voted for the repeal of the mulct law.
Some republicans voted against the
repeal Just as some democrats voted
against It., The division was not on
party lines hut across party lines. No
matter how one votes in the city cleo
ton the vote will have nothing to do
with the final result. s.-.5A, - -.
The very people who are presumed
to be greatly interested in the ques-
tion Of prohibition relegate it to a
secondary place and assert that the
defeat OF Wilson Is Of first Importance.
Every vote for q democrat
strengthens the democratic organiza-
ton and makes that organization just
that much more likely to elect Wilson
for four years more Every vote
against any democratic candidate Is
q vote Of protest against Wilson. -. 81
Defeat of the democratic candidates
in the city election will be a warn
ing to the delegates who may be sent
to st. Louis by the local democratic
organization to vote against Wilson.
1915 AND 1915 IN CONTRAST.
...tw [Sioux City Journal.1
The United States OF 1916 in it's
military relations with Mexico offers
an interesting contrast to the United
States of g1S4S. Whereas in 1915 1t
took an invasion Of United States terri
tory by Mexicans to prod the United
States into action in 1916 the United
States prodded Mexico into war by de-
invading territory claimed
by Mexico.
In his biography OF Thomas H. Ben
ton in the American Statesmen series,
Theodore Roosevelt speaks Of the war
with Mexico as IAN unrighteous war
Numerous other historians question
tho purity Of the motives Of the United
States in It's treatment Of Mexico dur
ing that period when the slavery in
terests were in control Of the govern
ment in Washington and which in
cluded the setting up Of the republic
Of Texas, the annexation of Texas by
the United States and the subsequent
war with Mexico. It is certain Mexico
never forgot what occurred at that
time, and therefrom dates much of the
bitter hatred for the so-called grin
goes that exists today below the Rio
Grande.
II 1919 watchtu! waiting vas Mex
ico's policy. A resolution for the in
Of Texas into the United
States had been passed by congress in
1s45. Polk had been elected president
over Henry Clay on a platform favor
Ing annexation and the inevitable
war with Mexico Texas and the United
States claimed the territory to the Rio
Grande. but Mexico insisted that tie
River Nueces was the boundary line of
Texas. First the United States sent |
troops to the bank OF the Nueces. be- |
yond which Texas had not presumed to
exercise jurisdiction. and in vain await
ed hostile action by the Mexicans. !
Then 1t extended its revenue system |
over the disputed territory between the |
refrained from declaring war. |
On the contrary, it proposed to settle
the dispute by arbitration. Negotia-
Then the United States sent troops
across the Nueces into the disputed
AS the United States promptly re-
scented the Villa invasion Of American
territory in 1916, SO in 1916 in self
respect Mexico could do nothing but
resist the invasion by General Taylor
Of the disputed territory. 1t proceeded
to war with the United States, with
the result that 1t lost the territory, be-
tween the Rio Grande and the Nue-es.
But Il never forrct T. r. -