The Richfield recorder., 1916-11-03

e. don't know, but as between the
It man who was stained with the
+ blood OF Mexican citizen and the
v hahuman brute who has perpe-
trated upon American women out
: RACES which 1 dare not describe
to you tonight, 1 prefer the man
8 who had protected American citi-
+ zens even though he had murder
ed Madero. (Applause.)
And villa having fled, we picked uI
E Carranza. Who is Carranza? Mex
S to Villa, he hates Americans perhap'
more bitterly than any man in Mexico
t He is the gentleman who says In his
letter to Mr.. Lansing, in effect: ~ es
it was my soldiers that entrapped and
assassinated the American soldiers at
t Carrizal. 1t was my soldiers who took
+ advantage of these men who were sup
posed to be pursuing my enemy" after
the United States had recognized him.
We recognized him, and continued
to pour arms and ammunitions into
Mexico to assist, first Villa, second,
\ Carranza, and third, that they might
carry on the interminable and indis-
/ criminate murder and assassination
which has gone on in that country for
the last 2 IL years, or ever since we
drove Huerta out Read the Presi-
dents own words upon this. The de-
| scription of the affairs in Mexico
| coming from the President: Mexico
is apparently (this is written about six
|months after we had gotten rid OF
IHuerta). Mexico is apparently no near
er the end of her trouble than before
She has been swept by civil war as
by fire, her crops are destroyed, her
| fields lie unseeded her work cattle are
confiscated for the use of the army"
etc. How did they buy these arms and
ammunition? BY taking the cattle of
the poor miserable poems, by taking
| the products of those serfs of Mexico
and trading them for our arms and
ammunition. Her people were COM
PEELED to flee to the mountains to es-
cape being driven into bloodshed. and
no man seems to be able to lead the
way to peace and settled order. There
is no protection either for her own
citizens or for the citizens of other
nations. Mexico is starving, and with
out government" Why? Because we
government. Why is she starving?
Because the bandits of Mexico have
taken the cattle and means of liveli-
hood from the poems to trade them for
arms and ammunitions.
RAID ON OUR SOIL.
My friends, that is not ALL Upon
the 9Th day of March, if I remember
correctly, this year. villa made his
raid upon Columbus, New Mexico. In
the next few days Pershing moved
across the border in pursuit of Villa.
He moved to the south about 100 miles
and was interned in Mexico. By who?
BY Carranza. OarranZa said: you
can neither move south, east or west
but you must either move north or
stay where you are" Under this con-
dition-Now mind you, am speaking
from the record, because Lansing's
note of June 20th sustains everything
wv no Unframed
in Mexico, surrounded on the one nand
bv villa and upon thb other by Car
rama, we permitted 1,350,000 rounds
of soft-nose bullets to be landed at
Vera Grub and to be delivered to Car
rama. On the 18th day of May, at
time when the assassins were creeping
up upon the soldiers of the United
States, seeking to entrap them, who
were supposed to be ready to protect
them against the bandits of Mexico.
we permitted to be landed again L.
100000 rounds of soft-nose bullets and
delivered same to Carranza, and at the
same time we permitted to cross the
border arms and ammunition from
this great Christian nation. Every bull
let which found it's way to the heart
of an American soldier was an Ameri-
can bullet. Every means by which
those boys at Carrizal were assassinat-
ed was an American instrumentality,
and if these militia boys who are now
upon the border receive at the hands
of Mexicans their death, it will be by
means of arms and ammunition fur
nished by Americans by and with the
of this government.
MY friends, do not quarrel
with President Wilson because he
didn't 60 to war with Mexico. No.
indeed. As / said upon the 28th
day of April, more than two years
ago, we do not want war with
Mexico, but i said then and at
that time If we continued to in
terfere in Mexico 1t must newt
ably be war. and it will. 1 say.
therefore, that the criticism lOdg-
ed against this administration Is
that 1t didn't in the first place
demand protection of our citizens.
and refrain absolutely from inter-
fering with Huerta as to whether
he should be President or anybody
else should be President of Mexi-
co. We should have stayed with
in our own dominion, looked alone
to the protection of our citizens,
and we. would have had them re-
spected, and we would not have
had war with Mexico either. Gap
plause.)
Now. my friends. l have detained
7ou long enough. The Republicans
aspect of the American people, re-
,ardless of whether you are partisan
n not, by reason of his doing upon
he broad high plane of constructive
tatesmanship while governor of New
york. l believe. as l read the result
n Maine, that in November a united
Republican party will go into power
gain under the leadership of Charles
,vans Hughes. applause
I believe. furthermore, and
take this from his own candid
statement, that with reference to
this matter which we have been
discussing, Mr. Hughes will do
precisely as he said, insist upon
the protection of American citi-
zens and refrain from interfer-
ing with the internal affairs of
Mexico.
If he does so, the Mexican
question, in my judgment, will be
settled so far as our interests
and our concern are material to
the situation, but just so sure as
this policy which we are now pur-
suing continues we will have to 60
to Mexico.
Why counsel with Carranza? Sup
ose we come to an agreement with