The Washington times., 1916-01-18
STATEMENT BY KENT.

are generous and kindly, and can only
! be handled by those who understand
| their racial traits and their position
In the line OF evolution of the races.
| If they are granted reasonable op-
portunity to develop along their own
| lines they cannot be considered as
| hopeless. but as a people who will
make worthy dwellcrs in the country
that from time immemorial they have
! cultivated and inhabited.
| I'm the broad general lines indicated.
| the present Administration has worked
! toward the welfare of Mexico. 1t may
| be that we have placed our bets on the
! wrong horse. l opposed the capture of
! Vera Cruz as an act of war. I opposed
| its being given up to Carranza. man
| ] then believed to be Inadequate to car
ry out tho burden of benevolent des-
| potism. necessary in Mexico. But Of far
greater Importance than these passing
matters is the rolicS. broad and ade
I quate. that the Mexican people should
aided in settling their own matters their
! own way. That Americans investing
| In Mexico should take their possible
risk the danger Of revolution. and that
as long as we recognize Il nationality
: In Mexico. that nationality shall be
permitted to work out for itself ita
own destiny just as we demand in our
own country the right to work out our
.
| tons to the contrary Notwithstanding
When the time comes that we as
sumo the right to govern and to regu-
late Mexico. Just that moment Rcr-
manism.' will have the right to demand
that We submit to the German idea OF
| kultur.' whatever that may mean.
Like Crimes Here.
at Is natural and proper to resent the
n
not averse to a scrap. / personally feel
| desire to get into this row; but when
l remember the murder OF Cinnamon in
, Wyoming. which was without cause or
excuse; when I remember other crimes
against these inoffensve people that
were committed in my own State: and
when l remember what / considered to
be and still consider to be the justi-
fable killing of lot of Italians Of the
Malta, in New Orleans, and realize how
our country held back and placed these
crimes on the threshold of the States,
and how angry we all were at the as
sumption of foreign governments that
our Federal Government should take
upon itself the responsibility for these
outraSeS, then | am compelled to re-
alizt that. however horrible the offense
OF the irresponsible bandits in Mexico
may have been, we in our national ca
.paCitN, can do no more than our Adj
illlnlSlldllDn is no" NOliS, ana tnut ID
to demand of the authorities in Mexico
due diligence in the pursuit and punish
ment of those guilty of this Offense
AS suggested in the telegram, | have
every reason to believe what every
other person ConVersant with Mexican
affairs must be forced to believe, tina I
the murders are deliberate attempt to
involve our Federal Government in a
contest with Carranza. I know some OF
the men that were killed, and know
that some OF them were personal friends
of Villa. 1t Is @ matter of common
knowledge that Villa and his friends
will do anything in their power to in
volve our Government In struggle
against CarranZa. For the reasons
above expressed. and from a knowledge
of the situation, / would ask the Ameri-
can public to refrain from a course that
is in the obvious interest of trouble
makers in this country, whether they
agree with William Randolph Hearst.
with his millions invested in Mexico
that will be vastly multiplied should in
tervention occur. or with Theodore
Roosevelt who Is opposed and always
will be opposed to any one who occupies
the Presidential chair. which he be-
lieves to be his peculiar perquisite.
''WILLlAM KENT"