Arizona republican., 1916-01-14
The Mexican Massacre

The recent Mexican in which of Americans the victims has stirred the country other incident, however bloody and revoltins within the last three wears. did. There IS a loud demand for intervention from quarters which were silent during the long of murder and outrage. our government is calling angrily upon Carranza to do something about this crime, committed by bandits who under control except possibly that of Villa. Yet through the long, three-yea era rape and murder. in which hun dreds of Americans victims of the sodiery of one or another of the recognized factions, crnment made protest.
 IL deaf the cries of he people of Colono Juarez and Colonio Morelos Our state department declined even to make inquiries reports of American consuls in Mexico. of crimes against American life and property. but sought to discredit the reports of the consuls. Only when the great properties of the Standard Oil company Tampico were threatened government quickened into action. but every such occasion it showed it's teeth. It was such peril of Standard Oil property that inspired the foolish Vera Cruz expedi in which seventeen American marines lost their lives Nowhere else in Mexico did the peril the murder of American citizens enlist the atten- ton of the American gov errment beyond the issu- auce of a warning to Americans get of Mexico.
 Then time for intervention before all the Americans killed before their property destroyed Then we could have held some faction leader. Villa. Carranza Zapata. responsible. We would say that intervention would be improper We believe. and always believed. that there only two open to this try either must intervene in Mexico to q perpetuaon of the disorder there and serve notice upon our citizens that they must enter that country at their peril
 We think. though, that it would improper hold the Carranza government responsible for this crime. It was committed We only know, by band of former Villa soldiers. either acting their motion or on the reported general instructions of Villa to loot, burn and kill Americans Carranza has only shown himself be incapable of giving protection in this instance It may urged that he has had time prove his capabilty.
 The war is not vet Though organized opposition to Carranza has apparently ceased there is still fighting between his troops and scattered bands of villstas and Zapatstas. It is doubtful whether Carranza will be able restore order in Mexico. From the very beginning The Republican has regarded him weak and inefficient But his organization better, his army was more orderly and was better commanded by Obregon than the armies mobs of Villa and Zapata Therefore it conquered and enforced the unwilling recognition of this country. which would much have preferred to recognize Villa. If the Carranza faction could restore order there other faction that could q" so And this government, having recognized the de facto government 1t must find the present de- mand for intervention peculiarly embarrassing after having for three years. during which had recognized government in Mexico neglected so many stronger reasons for intervention.
 CaTranza has been to blame only for thinking that he could give protection to these Americans who have been murdered. But any blame that may attach 10 him must he small in comparison with that which rests this administration. which has let American life become cheap in Mexico that The word 'Amercan' has inspire hatred but contempt. and where for three years there has been no fear that the murder of an American would be followed by more serious con sequences than the killing of sheep
 But for our watching waiting" policy and 'he policy of our government with respect to the European wal which vii. make two shameful pages in American history believe these mur- dered Americans would now be alive; and that hundreds of other Americans men and women whose bones bleaching in Mexico would be alive today; and that the bones of no American victim of the Lusitana disaster would now be whitening in :he depths of the Atlantic.