Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-23

life and pIotectlng American
49,. .sr ana property. -A
CHI. would have been defen-
s'o'e' Personally. it seem to mo tna,
:. "ouid nave been even better to havs
oone exactly what MIR. Wilson .a,d ha
wooid DO, but did not do. He said -
congress on August q, 1913: We ahou,d
4e' everyone who assumes to EXERCISE
"'aority In any part of Mexico know
Tue most unequivocal way that we
snail visilantly watch the fortunes n
those Americans who cannot get aw.v
and shall hold those fresnonsih,a for
'heir sunerings and losses to a definite
reckoning. Thu can be and will be NIT
beyond the possibility of a misunder-
standing. The trouble is that neither
the promises and menaces of President
wilson, nor the pledges in the Democrat.
AZ PLATFORM, were worth the paper on
which they were written, nor the breath
expended in uttering them.
president Wilson has seen the Nav
leans during these three and a half wears
become socially. politically and morally
bankrupt. He has not helped Mexico. He
mas ruined Mexico. The jungle is GREEN
ing over the great plantations. The cat
tie on the ranches have been wantonly
and wastefully slaughtered. The thor
oushored stock farms which were the
work of decades have been DESTROYED, IT.
rigation plants are out Of service. rail-
ROAD terminals have been burnt, rolling
stock and locomotives broken up and
damaged beyond repair. Mines that fur
Snnf
sands are standing idle. The national
treasury has been emptied. A paper
currency. debased and worthless, has
been substituted for the nations money.
All the means of an orderly economic
life have been destroyed. An epidemic
Of typhus RACES that twice has menaced
the health of our border cities. The
country no longer produces SUFFICIENT
foodstuffs. Actual starvation is upon the
people. Sixty thousand white men, who
were one of the great civilizing and de-
veloping forces of Mexico, are in exile.
The jungle, the desert and a cruel prim-
tive savagery hold sway. Carranza' s
government is but a she'll of authority,
based on murder and plumber, limited
to a few of the larger cities and railroad
lines, in antagonism to every organizing
force upon which a government can rest.
The absolute refusal Of the outside world
to lend it money is evidence of the low
credit in which it is held. and is also
a grim commentary on Mr.. Wilson's folly
in assailing the American miners. ranch
ers, workingmen, investors and business
men, who alone rendered possible a
healthy prosperity in Mexico.
TT will take foresight. intelligence and
self-sacrifice ON the part of our statesmen
and our people to solve these problems
in the right way now so as to ward off
danger in the future President Wilson's
policies have been without plan or pur-
nose: he has not looked beyond tomor-
row: he has had no objects aside from
political profit at home. and
possibly the qualification OF personal
;pite towards, or personal favoritism for.
some particular bandit. His attitude has
shifted hither and thither. At an enor-
NOUS expense to all that is good and
stable in Mexico and at a terrible cost
Of American lives. property and prestige
he has lifted Carranza into power.
Through the maneuvering of an Abe
convention he placed him upon his shaky
pedestal and today by the expedlent OIL
another LOU convention he is trying
To nrop and bolster the tottering struc-
ture Yet at this time, Carranza's gov
eminent. which is wholly the child OF
President Wilson's diplomacy. turns
against US. and thereby foreshadows the
course that this same man Carranza
would take If, by the aid Of such loans'
az II has been vaguely limited that the
present administration Is trying 10 Sc
c,,re for him in financial circles, his gov
eminent would become strong. This Is
.hown In the New York World. VIII
sons administration organ. In as
ratch from it's special representative az
on October 10th, 1t set forth
that as soon as the German submarines
ho1an TO operate off the coast. the Car
r.nza delegates at the conference be
came elated at the prospect Of this coun-
+rv Incoming involved in further inter-
national entanglements and their atti-
t,da stiffened considerable" The threat
thus revealed in the attitude OF these
carranza agents is a sinister omen Oh
tho future danger that turks IN MT.
wilson's diplomacy. Some day this d.
n,o,oacy will be paid for by this country
~ tb. h,oodshed, suffering and disaster
of war"