New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

1 roads refused to concede anything be- ! cause certain Wall street interests , against President Wilson wouldn't let ! him get the credit of an industrial ! victory, the law was passed by con- 1 Srcss the strike was averted, and it ! was shown that we had a government { which was free to serve the people in i a great crisis
 Mexico.
 "MexiCO was no child of ours. The | previous republican administrations
 were prolific With their children-with | these problematic children; and they l left quite a number of them on our i door step, not so much in a spirit of l heritage as in a spirit of inaptitude,
 and so we inherited the Mexican prob
 lem. And if l only had as much in 1 formation on the subject as MT.
 Hughes has gotten from Henry Lane | Wilson, I wouldn't discuss the QueS- | ton.
 And yet this problem at our very l doors in the republic to the south of
 us has been of great inconvenience
 to us and of untold suffering to the 1 people of Mexico. For eight months l at the beginning of the present ad-
 ministration, l was assistant secretary 1 of state in Washington in close and
 active touch with the problems of 1 Mexico and Latin America, and up to | the recognition of CarranZa I was
 an interme ediary chosen by the repre- sentative of the bishops of the Mex
 ican Catholic church. and satisfactory | to the president. for the discussion of | certain phases of the Mexican prob. 1 lem affecting the right of religious l ;,, statements merely that you may know 1 that l have a right to speak with au- l thority on the Mexican question
 "Porforio Diaz had been the iron
 handed ruler of Mexico for over
 thirty years and because the great
 mass of the Mexican people had been
 deprived not only of education, prop
 erty and liberty, but were even in 1 want of bread, a revolutionary move
 ment was successful which drove Diaz 1 out of power and elected Francesca
 Madero the constitutional president of l Mexico. To clearly understand the
 economic conditions of Mexico, it is
 necessary to state that though there
 are sixteen million people in that
 country, through usurpation and az l gression sixty thousand people own all l the land After he was chosen presi- i dent, Madero was advised by his i friends to execute a number of DiaZ's | former followers and among them | Huerta, but Madero was a kindly | man, said there had been too much | killing in Mexico and that he would | try to win his enemies to the service 1 of their country. AS a result Huerta was put in command of the federal 1 troops guarding the capital city of Mexico. And history records no more 1 dastardly act of treaChery against his ! benefactor than that perpetrated | when Huerta seized the governm ent 1 of Mexico and placed President Ma | dero and Vice President Suarez In jail l Shortly after the arrest, in the dead of night while Madero was being
 moved from one jail to another by Huerta soldiers, he was assassinated Huerta as the head of the army,
 could easily have prevented this out 1 rage, and was directly responsible for the murder of the legitimate presi- dent who represented the republican hopes of the Mexican people. Huerta then impudently sent message to the government at Washington 'I have
 overthrown the government" and asked for our moral support and rec- 1 ognition.
 All this happened at the last two | months of President Taft's adminis- l tration. Henry Lane Wilson an ap- po1ntee of the last Republican admin 1 1strat1on was our ann ssador to Mex | icO. He urged President Taft to rec | ognize Huerta, and then the present ! administration came into power. We 1 soon found out that Am bassador Will 1 son was taking active sides with 1 Huerta and his faction, when as an American ambassador he should have ] taken no part in Mexican politics. And 1t soon became known to Am | bassador Wilson that the present ad-
 ministration did not intend to retain
 him. The representatives of the for 1 elgn powers were told falsely and
 with a knowledge of the falsehood. l that this government was going to | recognize Huerta.' Acting on this be- | lief they gave their recognition to
 Huerta, but later on, when they found 1 they had been misled, this withdrew 1 their recognition. It was impossible 1 to d1splace Henry Lane Wilson, the
 mischief maker, because if we sent a new diplomatic representative, that
 act would be a recognition of Huerta
 "In facing this first problem, our Government had to consider not
 merely Mexico, but all Latin-Amer- ica. For years European and Amer ican capital had been unsafe in many of the Latin Am erican republics be-
 cause of the constant recurrence of revolutions. Some treacherous adven-
 turer like Huerta would suddenly rise
 up, seize by force the power of the government, murder the legitimately
 chosen president of the country, and
 then ask for the moral support and recognition of the American people, and in order to discourage such revc-