The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-14
MASSACRE WILSON'S
FAULT, SAYS 7. R.
Send Gen. Wood Into Mexico
and End Murders. lie
Urges.
SEES POLITICAL MOTIVE
Failed to Protect Americans
on Seas. and Let TrutOns
Run Wild.
SEES POLITICAL MOTIVE

Theodore Roosevelt arraiRns fresiuent
W ison as being responsible for the mas
sacre in Mexico. owing to what he terms
a vaoillating policy and accuses him OF
playing politics in his most recent deal
ings wiki the Teutonic Powers.
These charges are made in state
ment issued al oyster Bay last nish,.
which says:
This dreadful outrage is merely an
inevitable outcome Of the policies that
have been followed in Mexico for the
last five years and above all the last
three years The policy c: watchful
waiting. the policy Of not interfering
with blood splitting the policy OF ask
ing the South and Central American re-
publics to take from us the responsl-
bilty that We were too timid to take
has borne its legitimate fruits.
I'm the past the Carranzistas, whom
President Wilson has recognized as
forming the Government of Mexico,
have done to our people just exactly
such things as these Nillistas have done.
Arms shipments WRONG.
1t IL but a year since President
Wilson sent Gen. Scott down to the
border to make "A treaty with villa, who
had then already committed outrages OF
this Kind and outrages not only against
men but against women.
president Wilson has perIitted those
different bandit factions to get from
us. or with our permission. the arms
with which they have killed American
private citizens, American soldiers. the
husbands and fathers OF American
women whom they have outraged Their.
IS a hundred times the justification for
interfering IL Mexico that there Was for
interfering In cuba.
I'VE should have interfered years ago.
We should act through the regular
army. for This kind of polio" work Is
not the work for volunteers. We should
act with the same efficiency and the
same dlsinteresteduess We showed in
Cuba. and the man to do the Job is Gen.
Wood. the man who did the job In such
fine shape In cuba.
But in noting the effect o. watchful
waiting In Mexic" do not forget the
effect in, the world war OF our policy OF
being too proud to fiRh.. The dispatches
from Washington Indicate that the pres
SUR" OF tn. English fleet has caused Ger
many and Austria {, belieN" Il unsafe
to carry ON CurtCer their submarine war
fare agalrs' helpless passenger ships.
The dispatches indicate that having thus
been forced 10y the British navy to aban-
dUn the practice u the Wholesale murder
dren an me hiyh seas thnv i,,.rd :,
n,k.. he,ieya ,n ah,rdnr I, n. pr,-sldant
Wilson's rouuset vl,h as n iar,,lu In
return ran,wed nr.ssu-e hy President
Wilson upou Grea, britain
som. uf tho professional German
American lenders have announced n this
u,r. Jone and ,h. harraIn ra-riad OH,
President Wilson would gain the en,ir.
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az ,ay, eleven months hav. zone nv sine,
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TT is worth while calling att"nt ioI
20 the State Departments assertion TO.
day that II had warned Americans tc
keep out OF Mexico. In this respec,
President Wilson is copying the ex.
ample OF Ambassa dor Berns,orff wher
he warned the Americans to keep Of
the Lusitan!a. which warning was fol.
lowed by murder. But II IL at least Il
b. said Of the German Ambassador thai
the murders Of which he gave warnInl
were Of citizens Of a foreign land. II