The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-02

can lives2 What is the United States
army doing in Texas, IL 1t Is not to
defend the United States and It's citi-
zens2 The American flag has become
a mockery along the Mexican border.
The United States army is douted by
Mexicans. The generals, the soldiers,
the show OF arms and cannon, the
equipment for moving men forward
are all Jest to the Mexicans. who
are satisfied in their hearts that the
United States cannot and will not
avenge the murder of Its citizens.
Murder becomes an exquisite pleas
ure when 1t Is committed under the
very eyes OF American soldiers. The
murderers vaunt and brag and snap
their fingers Mt the American army
and the American flag. They are
convinced that America, with all It's
show, is rotten at the heart. 1t Is
u coward.
The Chicago Herald, another DEM
ocratic newspaper. says along this
line:
This dastardly affair raised ques-
ton which will hardly be settled by
proof that the state department Dit
all 1t could to keep Americans from
exposing themselves in this troubled
area or even by the assurance that
prompt demands for reparation ana
punishment have been made on the
Carranza government. Such proceed
lngs are well enough in their way.
But the horror and the indignation
which this latest atrocity has stirred
in this country, leave room Tor only
one augmentation; for only one
onclusion-results.
And the Boston Transcript declares
itself as follows:
The blood OF these peaceable and
deserving Americans. who should
have been welcomed as among the
real saviors of Mexico's Frustrated In
dustries, is upon the administration
of President Wilson. 1t was Presi-
dent Wilson who led these men. as he
has been trying to lead the American
people, generally. to believe that the
trouble is over in Mexico. 1t was he
who accepted Carranza, the gasconad-
ing first chief" who has proiited by
the works of bandits like villa and
Rodriguez only to repudiate all re-
sponsibility for them when he sue
ceeds in getting little way along
How far the mere bluff of CarranZa s
government could shelter Americans
in Mexico we see now.
To whom does the responsibility
for such massacre belong? 10
whom, indeed. If not to the man, who
said, in his address to Congress, on
August 81, 1918:
I'VE should let every one who as
sumes to exercise authority In any
part OF Mexico know in the most UNI
eQuivocal way that we shall vigilantly
watch the fortunes of those Amer
cans who cannot get away, and shall
hold those responsible for their suf-
ferings and losses to definite reck-
oning. That can and will be made
plain beyond the possibility Of mis-
understanding.
Added to these here is what the
Philadelphia Public Ledger says:
This is case that calls for decis-
i've action. Even President Wilson
must realize by this time that the
American people will not stand for
any faltertng. He must know that
the nation has utterly repudiated the
doctrine enunciated by Bryan, and
presumably indorsed by him, that
Americans in Mexico have no rights
which their government is bound to
respect and protect. Unless the ad-
ministration shall hold Carranza TO
a strict accountability, secure imme-
diate reparation and bring about the
arrest and punishment of the perpe.
traitors of this outrage, the nation will
be warranted in the conclusion that
President Wilson is incapable of de
Tending the national honor and Is I'M
fit to be entrusted with its protection.