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

STATES tn6t the A0puOllC OF the Uni
4 ed States will withdraw as an inter
Y ferinE power in Mexico; will with
draw AZ an interfering power In Mica
! ragua; will withdraw as an interior
ing power in Honduras. and say to ia
Republics Of Central America an
Mexico: We will respect the integrit
! of your governments; we will ap
, proach your borders only when aske'
to do so as your friend; we recogniz
states and we will never come to yo'
: except as an older brother and II
respect to your government and In
7 tegrity of your territory" and then
said, 1--WE should stand ready at al
times, however, to protect our owl
) citizens in Mexico, for that is a who'll,
} different matter than that which is IN
J volved in interfering with the interna
affairs of Mexico. We should say tt
! Mexico, we expect you to protect oul
citizens and protect their property
and having done SO we will respect
the integrity Of Mexico in every way
Having taken that position, I assume
the same position here tonight. There
are just two principles which should
have guided us with reference to Mex
leo in this trouble from the beginning
Simple, in my judgment, uncontrovert-
ible, and upon which we could have
| proceeded with safety to our own peo-
pie and without being involved with
I the Mexican people. First: AS have
said, we should have stated to Mexico
you protect our citizens, give them
security, and having done so work out
your own salvation. But you say it
There is no nation so low in savagery
that it does not respect the nation
which insists upon the protection of
its own citizens. (Applause)
WHAT BLAINE SAID.
Let me give you an illustration.
! When Jas. G. Blaine was Secretary of
State, he appointed a man by the
name of Morgan as ambassador to
Mexico. Morgan was a brother of the
famous Morgan who was on the Con-
| federate side in the Civil war, but this
Morgan had remained loyal to the
Union, and Mr.. Blaine appointed him
as ambassador to Mexico. While Mr..
Morgan was ambassador to Mexico,
some Americans were murdered or
| massacred in or near Mexico City.
| What did Mr. Blaine do? He sent a
telegram, a copy of which I have upon
my desk, saying to Mr.. Morgan
have forgotten his initials-ambassa-
dor to Mexico You will yourself
please read this message to the Secre-
tary of the Foreign Affairs of Mexico:
The United States demands that Mexi-
not tomorrow, but now, and unless 1T
does so the United States will come
there to give its citizens the protection
which they are entitled to- Cap
plause.)
Now the Mexicans could understand
that. (Laughter.) They could COM
prehend that proposition, but they
this interminable labyrinth of this
school of international correspondence.
Gaughter.)
WHAT CLEVELAND SAID.
Let me give you another illustra
ton. When Mr.. Cleveland was Presi-
dent Of the United States, a lieutenant
of the Mexican army pursued Next
can girl across the border into the
United States and seized her and drag
ged her back across the line. She was
a Mexican GIRL but she was on the ter
ritory of the United States and for the
time being under the protection of the
stars and stripes. What did Cleveland
do? He sent telegram directing a
sufficient portion of the American
army to move to the Mexican border
with instructions to the commander in
charge to get that lieutenant, If he
had to go to Mexico City and get him.
What was the result? They could
comprehend the simple language oil
Grover Cleveland, and the Mexican
lieutenant was sent to the penitentiary
for twenty years. There was a time,
my friends, when to violate the inte-
gritty of the territory Of the United
States or offer an insult to the stars
and stripes meant action, and Mexico
knowing that fact respected the de-
mands of the United States and yield
ed to the suggestion of its sovereign.
OUTRAGES ON AMERICANS.
Why are we the most hated people |
in Mexico? Why should we, living
upon the border, and northern Re-
public, larger brother, be most hated
of all people? I have an affidavit of
a young mining engineer, who was in
charge Of a mine in Mexico. He had
some 1875 people, Americans, working
for him. Some of these bandits, our
friends, I suppose, took possession of
the mine and demanded a tribute of
$4,000 He didn't have that amount
of money SO they corraled the men,
women and children-put them in a
corral over night, and held them there
for the purpose of determining the
next morning what they should do in
case the $4,000 was not paid. The
next morning they returned and de-
manded $25 900, which was still more
than he could pay. During this par
ley it was learned that there was a
German citizen among these men, who
Ildu U0Cu III tIlc COIIdl OVOI HiSHt.
What did these bandits do? They
took the German citizen out from
among the American citizens, and sent
him safely on his way. Why they
knew that whatever other fault or
criticism may be assessed against the
German government that it protects
is citizens wherever they may be
found upon the face of Gods earth.
(Applause.) And so, my friends, had
We stated in the beginning, we will
INSIST upon the protection of our citi-
,ens, and said it with that force and
character that Blaine and Cleveland
aid it, we would have our rights re-
pected, and we wouldn't have had
var either.
l venture to say that If Theodore
Roosevelt had been the President of
he United States and sent message
UGH as he sent to the barbarian ma
ion some years ago, when they cap
ured one Of our missionaries, when he
aid to the barbarian nation, "Give us
he missionary alive or the bandit
ead"-if he had sent the message to
Iexico, our rights would have been
expected and we would not have had
yar with Mexico either (Applause.)
But what Is the result? In the
face of this platform adopted four
years ago, there have been over
1925 American citizens murdered
and massacred from time to time
in Mexico. Read Mr.. Lansing's
note upon the Goth of August last;
haven't the time this evening.
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