The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-11-02

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from power and abandons every ide
of controlling the organization of tn
government, and the conduct of nego
: tiations, the first magistrate (to-wil
, the President of the United States
will find himself under the necessit,
: Of Intervening by means of an ultima
tum-"
That is, the government of the Unit
} ed States had decided by one methot
or another to get rid of him. 1t II
clear. That Is my Interpretation O
it. to eliminate completely all assist
ance that Huerta felt he might receive
from foreign sources. And the Presi
dent of this great Republic says to 6
de-facto President of sister Republic
in power-he sends a secret emissary
or private emissary, with a letter tc
that de-facto President telling him he
must get out Is that Intervention
II not, what is it? Is 1t interfering
with the internal affairs of Mexico
What had Huerta done to us? HUI
erta during his reign In Mexico never
permitted an American citizen within
the territory over which he had juris-
diction to be injured. No American
citizen had suffered loss of life or
property within the rs per cent of
territory over which the Indian held
power. What had America, therefore,
to do towards cutting off his resour-
ces? He had eighty thousand soldiers
at his command. He had contracted
for a loan of one hundred millions of
dollars from France to help him carry
his government to peace and order.
He had been recognized by 26 great
nations of the earth. Tell me upon
what theory we could say to this old
Indian, you must get out. And am /
mistaken?
We come to the Vera Cruz incident
which follows next The President
came before the Congress and stated
that some soldiers had been arrested
at Tampico, which was true, and by
| reason of the insult to the American
nag the admiral in charge of the fleet
had demanded a salute of the flag.
He asked permission in his message,
which 1 have here, to use the army
and navy of the United States-to do
what? Don't misunderstood me. He
asked the use of the army and navy
of the United States to enforce a salute
of the flag. Very we'll and good. That
power was given him. We went to
Vera Cruz, expended ten millions of
dollars, lost nineteen American citi-
zens, and killed 800 Mexicans, and
hammered down and destroyed large
portion of the great sea port of Vera
Cruz. Did we go there to enforce a
salute of the flag?
r dT DC IL lIOH1 IIlS 10 charge, anu
don't misunderstood me, the honor or
veracity upon the part of the Presi-
dent when he came before Congress.
I simply recite the facts, but the his
tory says we didn't go there to enforce
a salute of the flag. We went there to
carry out this letter which he had en-
trusted to John Lind to try to remove
this de-facto President of Mexico from
his seat. Rather strong statement for
n lot 10 IN
it by source which you will not gain
say. Franklin X. Lane is one of the
able men connected with this admin
istratiOn, man to whom I pay the
tribute of my highest respect, and do
it sincerely. He wrote letter a few
days ago to the New York World, and
over his signature he said-perhaps +
had better read the Presidents mes
sage first. This is the message to Con-
gress! IT, therefore, feel it my duty
to sustain Admiral Mayo in the whole
of the demand to insist that the flag
of the United States should be sa-
luted." etc., ETC., and asking for the
use Of the army and macy. Would you
have understood that for the purpose
OF enforcing the salute of the flag !? |
But we said nothing of the salute of
the flag when we got there. We sailed
into the harbor of Vera Cruz, unload
ing our deadly fire upon the people of
Mexico as we sailed into the harbor.
Now what did Secretary Lane say we
went there for, in his letter? 1--WE
didn't go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta
to salute the flag. We did go there to
show Mexico that we were in earnest
in our demand that Huerta must go, |
and he did CO." says Lane, before we
left" In other words, the army and
navy of the United States was used
to remove the de-facto President of
Mexico from the Presidency, to which
he had been accredited.
1t has been said that he was
connected with the murder of
Madero. do not know. Nobody
knows. 1t might have been so,
but is that any reason why we
had to oversee Mexico?
When the president Of Peru as
sassinated his predecessors and
walked into his place and became
President, we recognized him In a
very short time.
This administration, when the
present President of HayH assas-
sinated the President of Hayti
and became his successor through
blood, recognized him as Presi-
dent. The government of the
United States can not oversee the
method by which all the Presi-
dents OF Central America become
would be at war all the time.
But we went to Vera Cruz, as 1
say, and we killed 800 Mexicans,
wounded SO of our own men, and
lost 10. Was that peace? What
do you suppose the Mexicans
thought it was? Laughter.) We
waged war against Spain, and lost
less number than we lost in
waging peace with Mexico. Gap
plauSe.)
They say to you that our hon
ored President has kept us out
of war. Suppose we had gone to
Germany and fired our shot and
shell into the vitals of the Ger
man citizens. Suppose we had
turned our cannons and our ships
upon a German port, it would
have been war. Suppose we had
gone to England and shot into
Liverpool and so much as in
jured single citizen of England,
it would have been war. The
only reason it was not war with
Mexico was because this torn,
distracted and demoralized little
nation was unable to respond.
Had she had an army and navy
such as Germany has, 1t would
have been war, and justly war.
If / meet cripple in the street
and hammer him down and leave
him in his own blood, it may not
be fight, but 1t wasn't my fault.
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