American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1916-11-02

ed them on three sides, and said you can neither go
south. nor east, nor west; the only way you can 90 is
north" And he said this to the president of the
United States. We have been fought by the enemies
OF Carranza, our soldiers and citizens murdered at
every opportunity, our women ravished; we have
been fought by CarranZa, his uniformed troops have
invaded American soil and attacked American citizens
and soldiers on American soil; his soldiers have fired
across the border, wOunding American soldiers: his
troops have slain American citizens in sight of the
border, and in sight of American soldiers and citizens;
no American woman is safe in Nogales where Carran-
"a authority is supreme. Yet he kept us out of war,
and made the flag as potent as a white cloth.
We do not want war, but as between war and the
kind of peace we are now having, which do the Amer
lean people prefer? Peace is so profound on the
border that American soldiers have had orders NOT
TO FIRE EVEN WHEN FIRED AT! Whv not arm
our troops with popguns.
What are we going to do with our border? If we
withdraw from it, and move our citizens and soldiers
away from it, the ~half-breed inhuman wretches will
hang upon the flanks of our re~treating citizens the
same as they have hung upon the flanks of Pershing's
retreating army. We can't use moral suasion: we
cant successfully contend for adherence to civilized
standards. The emboldened Mexican outlaws do not
know what these things mean. Firmness is the onlv
thing, they can understand. Firmness does not mean
war, but 1t ought to mean war unless the intolerable
conditions Immediately come to an end.
HE kept us out of war; has nearly served its DIR
pose. AT FL PasO F. A. Shaw, an Idaho citizen. is in
charge of the automobile transportation service of
the United States army. Three weeks ago he wrote
DaVld Burrel: Five months ago | had five or six
automobiles and auto trucks. now have about four
teen hundred" Why this increase, which he said was
gong on all the time. Why are munitions and equip
ment being accumulated on the border? The letter of
}. M. Bradley from Nogales supplies the answer.
"Preparing!" Preparing for what? For the con-
tlinuance OF our present peace? Those on the border
know, and everyone else knows whose sole informa-
tion Is not censored press dispatches or apologists for
the present administration. They are getting ready
TO do what ought to have been done months ago. to
compel respect for the rights of Americans bv force.
we vii! have war then, and it will cause no greater
loss OF life than the peace that is now raging on the
border.
The Press would like to suggest to the women Of
Power county that it is their sisters that have suffer-
ed the greatest i%ndignitus that it is possible to inflict
upon women; that remote from the shameful and de-
grading scenes they are protected by distance. b1t
that on the border "the flag without a stain" is tbe
only protection that border women and those across
Ihe oorder nave; that the men of this nation are will
ing to give up their lives, if need be. to protect vour
honor and the honor of your less fortunate sisters on
the border, if you are willing to vote that YOU want it
done, They will do it anyway, with or without vour
eoloent. Inc men OF this nation will not permit YOU
% oe deoaSed and dehled, even though through being
mlsled by suppressed dispatches, you make war in,
eVlCaole Dy helplng to continue in power an admins
tfatlon that invites a continuance of present condi-
tons by a lack of frmness. The Idaho hovs armed
only with pistols, and joined by the bows from Cor
nectlcut and business men of Nogales, were prevent
eu only a month ago from crossing the border bv a
double row OF soldiers of the Twelfth U. S. infantry.
Someday the outbreak will come.
1t is not your daughter that has been outraged nor
your son that has been slain. 1t is some other moth
ers daughter, some other mothers son, and these
mothers are looking to this great government for the
protection they are entitled to receive. It's up to
you. If the president would saw to residents Of tho
border states: This is your trouble and we leave the
settlement OF 1t to- you" a peace lasting and worth
while would speedily come. wa"
Inc people of Maine recently held an election. vot-
On the same day the sons of those Maine fothovC
mothers voted on the border by reason of a statite
enabling them to do so, the vote being 400 pon,LG