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Mexico, three Americans were murdered or mas.
sacred in or near Mexico CITY. What did Mr.
Blaine do? lie sent a telegram, a copy of which
have upon my desk, saying to Mr.. Morgan:
"You Will yourself please read this message
10 the secretary Of foreign affairs OF Mcxic0:
Ihe United States demands that Mexico pro-
tect IFS citizens, not next week, not tomorrow,
but now, and unless IL does so the United
states VIII come there TO give its citizens the
protection which they are entitled to-
Now the Mexlcans could understand that.
Ihey could comprehend that propositions, but
they seem TO have difficulty In following this
eternal numbering Of this school Of interna-
ti0nal correspondence.
Let me give you another illustration. When Mr.
Cleveland was president of the United States a
lieutenant of the Mexican army pursued a Mexican
girl across the border into the United States and
seized her and dragged her back across the line.
She was a Mexican girl, but she was on the terri
tory or the United States and for the time being
under the protection OF the stars and stripes.
What did Cleveland do? He sent a telegram d.
recting a sufficient portion OF the American army
TO move to the Mexican border, with instructions
to the commander in charge to get that iluetenant,
II he had to go to Mexico City and get him
What was the result? They could comprehend
the simple language of Grover Cleveland. and they
delivered up the Mexican lieutenant and he was
sent to the penitentiary for twenty years. There
was a time, my friends, when to violate the in
teSrlty or the territory of the United States or Of
Ter an insult to the stars and stripes meant action
and Mexico knowing that fact respected the de-
mands of the United States and yielded to the
suggestion Of its sovereign.
GERMAN RELEASED AMERICANS HELD.
why are we the most hated people In Mexi.
60! why should we. living upon the border,
ana IA northern republic, a larger brother.
be The most hated Of all pc0plel have an
AFFIDAVIT Of n young mining engineer, who
was In charge Of IA mine IN Mexico. He had
some 10 people, Americans. working for him.
Some OF these bandits, our friends, | suppose
TOOK possession OF The mine and demanded n
tribute OF $4,000. lie didn't have that amount
ON money 50 they c0rralled the men, women
ana children, put them In n corral over night.
ana held them there for the purpose OF de-
lermining the next morning what they should
do In ease the $4,000 was not paid. The next
morning they returned and demanded , 5000
which was still more than he could pay.
During this parley II was learned that there
was "a German citizen among these men who
had been In the corral over night. What did
these bandits dot They took the German
and sent him safely on his way. Whyl They
knew that The German government protects its
citizens wherever they may he found upon tbe
face OF Gods ioOt-stool. And so, nv friends.
had we stated In the beginning, we will In
slst upon the protection of our citizens, and
said II with that force and character as Blaine
and Cleveland said II, we would have had our
rights respected and we wouldn't have been
mt war either. ! venture to say that II
Theodore Roosevelt had been the president
or the United States, and sent n message sucI,
as he sent TO n barbarian nation some eight
years ago. when they captured one of our
missionaries, when he said 10 the barbarian
milton. Give MS The missionary alive or his
captor dend." II he had sent that message
10 Mexico. our rights would have been re-
spected and we would not have been nj war
with Mexico either.
But what is the result9 In the face of this
platform adopted four years ago, there have been
over 1925 American citizens murdered and mas
sacred from time to time in Mexico. Read Mr..
Lansing's note upon the Goth of August last. /
haven't the time this evening, but YOU read the
entire note Read il and YOU will find a record
of the assassination or murder of American citi-
zens, not only in Mexico, but upon the border.
You wilt find the most awful and Incompetent
siblo outrages upon American women that the
human head could conceive of. by who? BY
villa, our whllom friend.
INTERVIEWED IN MEXICO.
We went 10 Vera Cruz. What did we 90
tort Now am dealing directly with affairs
III which the president l. primarily respon-
SiDle' nnd want To repeat that am not deal
ing with personal motives or a question OF
patriotism. ! am dealing with policies.
want Ia read 10 You what | venture 10 say Is
the most remarkable document which was ever
written by n sovereign of II people. I read
from the letter which the president entrusted
10 the keeping OF the Honorable John Lind,
when he sent him down TO Mexico, and this is
the letter; "rnIess IIucrtn voluntarily and
h MS own initiative rctlrcs ut once from
power and ahand0nS every idea Of controlling
the organization OF the government. and the
conduct Of negotiations. the first magistrate,
to-wit: the president oi the United States
viii find himself under the necessity OF in
t%er'ening by means of an ultimatum." That
Is, the government OF the United States had
decided by one method or another IL get rid
IL him. II Is clear. That l. nv lnterpreta-
ton OF Il. 10 eliminate completely all asSiS-
lance that Hucrta felt he might receive from
tOINlfU sources. and fln nraSilanf nf thfs
great republic says 10 n dciactO president
OF n sister republic In power. he sends n secret
emissary. or private emisSary, with u letter 10
that deiacio president telling him he must
get out. Is TINT inter,entioni II not, what
Is II. Is II interfering with the internal affairs
Of MeNicSi What had Huerta done TO us!
Huerta during his reign In Mexico never per-
mitted an American citizen within the terri.
tory over which he had Jurisdiction TO he in-
lured. No American citizen had suffered loss