The Monte Vista journal., 1916-10-14

clear, she is no longer a poor widow,
and the orphan who has $4,000
clear is no longer the poor little or
phan.
Oh, but our friends will say: per
haps this legislative program is all
right, but how about the presidents
international policy? How about
'Watchful Waiting?'" Well, my
friends, the Democratic party from
ocean to ocean: from Canada to the
Gulf, endorses President Wilson's
Mexican policy. We wouldn't sacri-
fee one rosy-cheeked American boy
for all the investments that specu-
lators have made in Mexico. Cap
plause).
When bandits raided across the
American borders, we followed them
into Mexico, and we took at least ten
bandits lives for every American
who died. We pursued that policy
until today an American may walk
the streets of the City of Mexico as
safely as he can walk the streets of
Monte Vista. 1t is true that along
the northern border, in the desert
and mountainous country disturb
ances still continue, but l want to
ISSdll " lHtSe lueH WHOSE nalT Is
gray, that there was a time after
the civil war and the government at
Washington was formally established
that it would have been impossible
for this government to have guaran-
teed the safety of every citizen in
every section of the Union.
So, my friends, the Wilson policy
in Mexico, if Mr.. Wilson is re-elect-
n Wi l.
what it has been in the past. We
regard those people as struggling to-
ward the light of liberty, and we re-
alize that our grandfathers caused
very considerable disturbance for
period of eight years before they
succeeded in compelling the king of
England to acknowledge the Declar-
alton of Independence. The Mexican
people have been struggling for four
or five years. We are willing to give
them little more time in the hope
that eventually Mexico will be in
fact, as well as in name, Republic.
Republican speakers denounce
President Wilson because he didn't
render an effective protest when the
Lusitania went down. Now. what
do these gentlemen mean when they
speak of an effective protest? Why.
do you realize, my friends. that hun
dreds of thousands of the bravest
soldiers on earth-the soldiers of
Belgium-protested. Thousands of
them died with a protest on their
lips. Was that effective? Hundreds
OF thousands of French troops (you
haven't any better anywhere) pro-
tested when the Germans crossed the
Belgian frontier, and they were join
ed by tens of thousands of English
troops, and ten of thousands died in
making their protest. What do our
Republican critics want us to do?
Why don't they tell the American
people what they mean by effective
protest?' Do they mean that we
should declare war on Germany? II
so, let them face an audience of Am
erican fathers and mothers. and let
them say it. And then they talk of
the Lusitania. Well, the Lusitania
was British ship, but we lost Am
erican lives, and we did make a pro-
test there-we did enter protest.
and without firing n shot: without
losing man, President Wilson in
duced the Kaiser of Germany to fore
go his undersea campaign so far az
Americans was concerned.
A great English woman was tell
ing me short time ago, a story
mat had been related to her by an
EhgIlsh general that had Just re-
turned from the front. He told them
or the big guns that the Germans
mad constructed which hurled mighty