Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-09-07

COOOOOCCOOCOCN S~SSO0~00So y"
sept5-6-7
should be returned to office because ne
has kept the peace. l do not IKE inc
kind of blood-stained peace which we
have had In Mexico.
The President interviewed in Mexico Tor
the purpose Of overthrowing the only
government that existed. He landed
troops, he seized a Mexican city. he lost
19 men, killed and wounded. at vera
Cruz. and called it peace! Having over
| thrown the Huerta government, Mexico
fell into a condition of hopeless anarchy.
Then, after all his talk about constitu-
tional government, he recognized the
military chief selected by his own off,
GERS as the head of the Mexican govern
ment. He bred In the Mexican mind such
a contempt for the United States that II
lead as 1t was bound to lead. to an In
yasion Of our territory, and the raid
unon Columbus, as well as to many other
smaller raids in which Americans were
killed upon their own soil. He then sent
what he called a punitive expedition after
villa, who had been until very recently
dition has gone into Mexico but 1t has not
been punitive. Our men were ampushed
| at Carrizal and were killed by American
bullets. Mr.. Wilson never stopped the
| shipment of arms and munitions from
th,s country to the Carranza forces. He
induced Carranza to deliver up the pris-
oners taken at CarriZal, and called 1t
d,nlomatic victory. Nothing was said
.hout the dead at Carrizal. Dead Ameri-
cans. killed by foreign nations, seem not
| to interest this administrator.
"Do YOU realize that between 4oo ana ooo
| Ar,ar;cans-men, women and children
h,ve heen killed in Mexico in the last nve
years? Some individually, some taken IN
sonads from trains and murdered by the
roadside? No reparation has been ex-
acted; no apology even has oeen oenano-
ed The President has posted on all our
consulates that Mexicans would De nelo
strictly accountable for any INJURIES 10
Americans. 1t was falsenood. ineS
have never been held accountable TOT
ANYTHING. He calls it peace. Tne To-
tai number Of killed IN the oecidieo W..
with Spain was II in the navy ana 1e'
in the army-2g1 uniformed, sghtins men,
Nearly twice that number or non-coH-
blatant American citizens, unarmeo anu
he,nless. have been murdered in Mexico.
We should have either kept out alto-
pether or interviewed effectively. This ao-
n;nistration did neither. They adopted
a policy which combined the defects Oh
both plans. They interviewed enough TO
do infinite harm and no good. pelieVe
that American rights should be support
ed and guarded by land and sea. Inc
nresent administration has utterly neg
Iected to do this No nation can afford to
ref,Se nrotection to its citizens, wher-
ever they lawfully are. and the ha'o.i
,,,h;ch fails to protect it's citizens will
soon cease to have its citizens protect the
government. Are you going 20 return u
washington men who support such
no,icy as this, which has led to all the
MEXICAN outrages and has disgraced US
in the ewes Of every South American
country?
"WiIson Kept Us Out Of War;"
"Their other cry is that the President
..s Lent ia out of war; with reference
"a tho war in Europe 1t is not difficult to
keen out of war when nobody wishes 10
20 to war with you. but 1t would nave
been possible, I think, to nave kept Out
IF war with honor and without humllia-
+;on Instead of that we nave been nu-
initiated. our people have been Killed
vher thew were lawfully on board mer-
.h.nt ships. and nothing has been done
-, o,,r government. Instead OF conduct
ing our foreign policy, as every ioreien
nolicv ought to be conducted, Will III.
col. view to the honor. the dignity anu
+he rights of the United STAKES TINS ao-
,,,n,stration has carried on "nat ~ nos
n,eased to call a policy OF shll.nas
fron, day to day in the eHort " noAo "a
Gain this group Of voters or tna'' Aou
cannot conduct the foreign relations "a
- I,r,+ed states on the basis OK securing
th;s vote or that The only true ioFeish
-, ,,u.+ he based on the interests and
rs.o- ~ the United States. We have
-. ~. respect of foreign nations. Our
..,f.respect has been lowered ana
,-..,red The American spirit has peeh
d.nressed; public sentiment mas oeen oe-
....a We have abandoned ana oe-
-.-..d all those great principles WHICH
49, ,,.ae the country and winch nave
M.-sead our past. Far more IL at stake
49,. election than the success OF
-, The real question Is whether tne
did American ideals are TO De res.ossa.
oIu "a American spirit to be revived;
whether WI, we are to face the world a, erect oss
WV oonadent, or with bowed head and
a a"u for a vote here and there and in
'.~;ns the contempt Of every nation on
earth. =, o,,r
o,,. thoroughly believe in the great
-. d;tions of their own history. believe
that they wish to preserve the high
n,ace among the nations Of the earth
-hich they held under Mckinley and
roosevelt; that they wish to restore
The American spirit and put US back to