The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1916-10-20

US. Villa has fought US and murdered
our citizens and outraged our women,
even on this side of the border. There
has been no actual declaration Of war.
But the thousands OF American troops
engaged, the hundred million dollars
expended, the unmarked graves along
the Clio Grande, all point to the fact
that we are actually in state OF war
with Mexico today. Wilson keep US
out of WARP Wilson wants votes.
Wilson did not even keep US out Of
war with Germany. That was done by
the Kaiser himself. AS fact We were
physically unable to 60 TO war with
Germany. It was not our ships and
armies that Germany dreaded. 1t was
our economic power and the authority
to wage this economic war lay in the
hands of the President. Nevertheless,
we should have blundered into war with
Germany, as every reading man knows,
but for the prompt action Of the Kasier.
In other words, it was the Kaiser who
kept US out OF war with Germany and
not the President of the United States.
And the same may be said Of Austria.
Emperor Francis Joseph prevented war
between Austria and America, not Pres
ident Wilson.
That we are not at war with both
Germany and Austria, right now is not
to the credit OF President Wilson. The
credit is to the rulers Of those coun-
tries. Whenever this administration
has had an opportunity to irritate with
words it has done so, for President
Wilson studied words all his life and is
a master at stringing them together.
But whenever called upon to make its
words good with deeds, the administra-
ton has miserably failed.
Returning to Mexico and to the
Benevolent" Carranza, the legitimate
successor of Madero, upheld and
pushed forward by the same interests
that were behind Madero. Madero's
government was supposed to be con-
stitutional and to recognize interna-
tional usages. With the advent Of
Carranza and Villa the work of destruc-
ton began. The Caranza government
is pledged TO the ruin OF the Roman
Catholic church and all other religious
organizations in Mexico. This fact is
not concealed in Mexico but is pub
lished on the highways. And here is
something OF the result of this cam
paign. Two thousand five hundred
churches have been desecrated, robbed
and destroyed. About 5000 clergy
men have been exiled from Mexico
and are today mostly in the United
States living on charity. One hundred
and sixty-four nunneries and converts
have been destroyed and in many in
stances Sisters of Charity and nuns have
been violated in most foul and brutal
ways. Huerta may have been red
handed but he made war on soldiers
and fighting men, never upon defense
less women.
President Madison wobbled and hes
itated and cringed with fear, but finally
brought US into war with Great Britain.
James Buchanan, another democratic
predecessor of President Wilson, halt
ed, hesitated and equivocated and
finally brought US urprepared into a
great civil war. Washington, Lincoln
and Mckinley all detested war but
they fought wars-not pitiful, humiliat-
ing wars-but wars which redounded
to the national honor and TO the ma
lonal power. Who stand highest in
the estimation Of the American people
today, Washington, Lincoln and Nc
Kinley. or Madison and Buchanan?
Is President Wilson more ike Madison
and Buchanan or does he more resem-
BILE Washington and Lincoln7
Wilson keep US out Of war with
Mexico? He did not. If American
armies upon foreign soil, if millions Of
expenditures, if hundreds Of dead, be
not war, what is it9
Wilson wants votes. But he cannot
seduce the American voters by any
such talk as Il prevented war;" We
are at war.