The daily Alaskan., 1916-09-28
P0LI7ICAE NEWS
 AT WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 27 i I-Claims that President Wilson has "Kept us out Of war;" are so ridicu- louslv untrue that it is amusing to taose who know the facts, declar- cd Rsprssentatiye Charles F, cur ", ot California, in a statement ao" today.
 His refusal to recognize Heurta as the de facto president of Mexi- GO, as was done by European na- tioas. encouraged bandit chiefs to continue their guerrilla warfare. Since then his Vacillating policy, putting on embargoes one day and lifting them the next, supporting one faction today and another to- morrow, dictating who should not be a candidate for the presidency ofI Mexico, and his meddlesome mud ding generally. caused by his per sonal antlpathy to HueIta, based On an uncompimentary remark a. ut him by Huerta, prolonged the revolutions.
 President Wilson committed two acts of war against Mexico. One punitive expedition was for the ayowed purpose of compelling Hueh ia to fire 3 salute of twenty-one Ito our flag; a number of American Marines and Mexicans were killed at Vera Cruz; the supply of note paper at the White House was eX- hausted, but the salute was not fired. The second punitive expe- di'ion was after the raid on Colum- bus ana was to get Villa dead or alive villa still lives and is at liberty.
 'oThe President called for a con. ference of Mexican factions to establish de factO government but said he would not recognize the Header of any faction that faileed to attend. Catrnza was the only Header that refused to pay atten- tien to the conference and Presi- dent Wilson recognized him.
 "In handling the Mexican situa- ticn the Wilson administration has Invariably done those thtings 1t ought not to have done and left un- done things it ought to have done
 "The President has reiterated and his mouthpieces have claimed So often that he is entitled to the credit of keeping us out of the lEuropean war that many persons accept the statements as true. Neither the Allies nor the Central PcV CTS want the United States to become involved In the conflict.
 Nothing can involve us in that conflict unless we deliberately cease to maintain strict neutrality and II DAHHuST lAlO 4b.s Inv ! States Is three thousand miles away 1 from the European conflict. Den Emark Holland, Sweden, Norway and | Switzerland are right at the doors of the warning nations and yet il these little countries are not in Volved. It Is absurd for the Presi- dent's partisans to claim that he 1 haR kept us out of war
 '"The people have not forgotten that after a conference with the President on diDlomatie complica- tons ot an acute nature between our government and one of the EuYopena belligerentS distinguished members of the Senate Foreign Re latIons Committee, told Senators Iand Representatives and even stat ed to newspapermn that the Presi- deR' had become very much. eXcit- ed during the conference and in vehement manner had said in, effect Tt might not be Q bad thing for eivilizatiou and would hasten the end of the United States would en- ter the war on the side of the AL llies.'
 I ''Early in his administrations the. President was too proud to fight | even in defense of national honor; later he was looking for an oppOr- tunity to break into thewar; today hs claims to be entirely neutral; what hia attitude will be tomorrow 1 nobody knows"