New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-03-29
High Treason

High Treason
While the old adage of ''Fools will rush
in where angels fear to tread' may not
be literally applicable to the action OF the
present administration in it's orders to
the army to invade Mexican territory
in pursuit of the bandit chief Francisco
Villa, it looks to the man up tree that
would-be friends of the President have
deliberately betrayed him and caused
him to give an order which he now
probably sincerely regrets. Dispatches
from Washington seem to indicate that
the Villa raid was a deliberate attempt
on the part of INSCRIPTIONS interests to
inveigle this country into war with our
sister republic in order that their hold
ings might be protected by the military
power of the United States. Stories
come from Ell Paso that hundreds Of
people, freebooters in every sense of the
word, have gathered there and openly
declare they are just waiting for the
government to get mixed up with Mexico,
that they may reclaim their ill-gotten
gains News stories to the effect that
the troops of General Carranza, the de
facto head of the Mexican government,
are flocking to the standard of Villa, are
being sent out by these same agencies,
for no other purpose than to impress
upon the minds of our citizens that the
population of Mexico is antagonistic to
the United States and it's government
and to force by an overwhelming public
demand intervention and occupation
of at least the northern part of the re-
public. They have nothing to lose and
everything to gain by such move. They
have harrassed the poor Mexican poems
in the past to such an extent that the
latter must look with suspicion upon
everything foreign and American. For
mer rulers of Mexico have, in order to fill
their own Golfers, granted valuable con-
cessions to Americans and other foreign
ers and dispossessed the poems who had
been eking out an existence upon land
prepared by them after many years of
hard labor. Under the regime of Diaz
the supreme court of Mexico was a
political body to do his bidding at beck
and call and the Iron Man of Mexico"
himself revised it's decisions.
These conditions of course have in
censed even the lethargic peon and this
hatred is now being commercialized by
INSCRIPTIONS individuals along the bor-
der to make the people of this country
believe that the hatred is directed against
the United States as people. The
latter probably is the case but the peon
is ignorant of the fact that the average
American is not his enemy. He does not
know that those Americans who had the
ear of Diaz are not the true representa-
tives of American principles, but are only
adventures at best.
President Wilson has issued state
ment from the White House to the press
of the United States to refrain
from publishing articles the authenticity
of which can not be vouched for, claim
ing that these stories have their origin
on the border and are sent out by
sinister interests whose aim is to involve
this country in war with Mexico The
persons President Wilson refers to have
so far remained nameless. At this dis
lance it is hard to judge the significance
of that statement. One can hardly
bring himself to realize that creatures
so low, so contemplate and unprin-
cipled should dare to call themselves
American citizens without being held
up to public scorn that would make their
names a byword in every household in
the land. If these individuals are guilty
of melting riot upon either side of the
border with the intent of embroiling this
country in a war, then they are more
guilty of treason than Benedict Arnold
and more treacherous than Santa Ana,
and the whipping post is too dignifed
and hanging too good for them.
Ignorance Breeds Crime and War
The birth Of Nation" drew a house