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army from the standpoint OF mill
tary efficiency instead of creating it
purely from the standpoint Of tenn
porary political expediency.
mr. Baker has been engaged re-
Gently on several occasions in the
to defend Mr. Wilson's attitude to-
ward Carranza and the Mexican ban
dts generally by alleging that Wash
ington and his soldiers stood on sub
stantially the same level He is by
no means as astute as Mr.. Wilson,
but he is moro sincere and straight
forward.
When he was appointed to the
position of secretary of war, the
newspapers reported him as saying
that he knew nothing about the
army that he was q pacifist and
that even when a boy, his principles
had been such that he never played
with tin soldiers.
These artlcss tributes and espec-
tally Mr.. Bakers admitted COM
plete ignorance of the job appealed
strongly to Mr.. Wilson's own ignor-
ance Of all military matters and the
amiable but wholly unmilitary char
acter which this civic duty portrayed
is precisely that which Mr.. Baker
has shown in his Office.
He certainly understands nothing
Of efficiency In war and it is now
apparent that he regards all wars
as standing IN the same level of in
fanny. and all soldiers as equally dis
reputable. Among his recent ex-
PLOTS was comparison of Wash
ington and his followers and soldiers
in the revolutionary war with Car
rama and the other bandits who are
responsible for the present witches
sabbath in Mexico.
THE New York Tribune made a
stenographic report of the speech OF
Mr.. Baker at Jersey City on October
16. This speech by an American Sec
rotary OF war representing the Amer
lean president had at least the merit
of presenting q wholly novel view
Of the founders of this republic.
1.-The speech runs in part:
Some people say they cannot un-
derstand the presidents Mexican
policy and / want to tell you why.
They have forgotten our own history
and the declaration of independence
! and the president has not forgotten
either. Why are we impatient with
Mexico? We say they do not respect
the lives and property OF our people.
Perhaps they don't. We say they DO
not pay their honest debts. We say
they are Sagamudin lot. We say
! they are not eny good. That's true.
It is not worth two OF three cents on
dollar. We say they do not respect
church property. That also is true.
The amazing thing Is that peopie
never respect these things in a revo-
luton.
1--WE had a revolution and from
the beginning tn the end Of that the
conditions in this country were so
j like Mexico that it is perfectly as
| founding to read. Washington's army
was In rags, and they stole, they
stole the silver vessels from the
churches and u. cited them up to buy
! things to eat. They drove ministers
of the gospel and preachers from the
churches and out of the country.
The president is in favor OF letting
the 100000 people in Mexico who
had not had an opportunity to do
so, fight out their independence the
way we fought out ours.
| when you hear people say they
cannot understand the Mexican policy
tell them to read the declaration Of
IL dependence and the golden rule.
| 1.-The final touch about the golden
-nlc." said the colonel, applied In
comparing men who rape women.
murder children and torture wounded
soldiers to the signers of the decla-
| ration of independence and the sin
gular humane soldiers of Washing
! ton, adds an element OF nauseous
hypocrisy to rs preposterous SANDER
as ever was circulated about the men
! of the revolution. / have no doubt
whatever that in this astounding
staten emit Mr.. Baker gives Mr.. VII
sons real views, exactly as Mr. Ian
sing, in his famous note OF June last
/ incautiously told the exact truth
| about the acts Of Carranza and the
Mexican bandits generally. Mr.. VIII
sons attitude toward Carranza can
not possibly be justified except on
the theory that at the bottom OF his
/ heart he looks upon all soldiers as
equally bad and has no conception
| that Washington and Carranza stand
| in opposite planes of moral and
| political scale.
"Of course from the standpoint OF
/! patriotism, from the standpoint OF
any American citizen proud Of his
country and it's army 1t is profoundly
| unpatriotic, profoundly dishonorable.
| it indeed amounts almost to deeecra-
ton to compare Washington's army.
the men Of Valley Forge who sacri-
feed everything for their country and
showed singular humanity, with the
herd of bloodthirsty bandits who.
now under on, bandit leader, now
under another, ravaged Mexico ana
whom the president has been back
ing and supporting in their murders
and outrages for the last three and
a half years in Mexico.
"The man who professed such doc
trines is wholly unfit to stay in the
cabinet and the president who re-
tains him is wholly unfit to remain
the president of the United States.
s,rb;, s%o+appopS oP Mr. Ro kor'a