Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-28

| | to Mexico. This is the letter: "Un
I less Huerta voluntarily and of his owl
: initiative retires at once from poWe
! and abandons every idea of controlling
the organization of the government
! and the conduct Of negotiations, TIT
J first magistrate (to-wit, the Presiden
. of the United States) will find himsei
: under the necessity of intervening b,
means of an ultimatum"
That is, the government of the Unit
| ed States had decided by one method
|, or another to get rid of him. 1t Ii
clear That is my Interpretation OF
it, to eliminate completely all assist
ance that Huerta felt he might re-
ceive from foreign sources. And the
President of this great Republic says
to a de-facto President of sister Re-
public in poWer-he sends secret
emissary, or private emissary, with
letter to that de-facto President tell
ing him he must get out. Is that in
PREVENTION? If not, what is 1t? Is II
interfering with the internal affairs OF
Mexico? What had Huerta done tG
us? Huerta, during his reign in Next
co, never permitted an American citi-
zen within the territory over which he
had jurisdiction to be injured. No
American citizen had suffered loss OF
life or property within the rs per cent
of territory over Which the old Indian
held power. What had America
therefore, to do towards cutting off his
resources? He had eighty thousand
soldiers at his command. He had con-
tracted for loan of one hundred mil
lions of dollars from France to help
him carry his government to peace
and order. He had been recognized by
26 nations of the earth. Tell me upon
what theory we could say to this old
| Indian. you must get out And am
| mistaken?
| We come to the Vera Cruz incident
which follows next. The President
came before the Congress and stated
that some soldiers had been arrested
at Tampico. which was true, and by
reason of the insult to the American
flag the admiral in charge of the fleet
had demanded a salute of the flag
He asked permission in his message
| which l have here, to use the army
and navy of the United States. to dc
what? Don't misunderstood me. He
| asked the use of the army and navy
of the United States to enforce sa-
lutte of the flag. Very well and good
That power was given him. We went
to Vera Cruz, expended ten millions
of dollars, lost nineteen American citi-
zens, and killed 800 Mexicans, and
hammered down and destroyed a large
portion of the great Sea port of Vera
Cruz. Did we go there to enforce a
salute of the flag?
Far be 1t from me to charge, and
don't misunderstood me, the honor OF
veracity upon the part of the President
when he came before Congress.
simply recite the facts, but the history
| xpa RI a
salute of the flag. We went there to
carry out this letter which he had en-
trusted to John Lind to try to remove
this de-facto President of Mexico from
his seat. Rather strong statement for
one to make. Then let me sustain II
by source which you will not gain
say. Franklin X. Lane is one of the
able men connected with this admins
tration, a man to whom | pay the
tribute of my highest respect, and do
it sincerely; he wrote a letter a few
days ago to the New York World. and
over his signature he said-perhaps l
had better read the Presidents mes
sage first. This is the message to Con-
gress: 81, therefore, feel it my duty
to sustain Admiral Mayo in the whole
of the demand to insist that the flag
of the United States should be salut-
ed. ETC., etc." and asking for the use
of the army and navy. Would you
have understood that for the purpose
of enforcing the salute of the flag, but
we said nothing of the salute of the
| flag when we got there. We sailed in
to the harbor of Vera Cruz unloading
| our deadly fire upon the people of
| Mexico as we sailed into the harbor.
Now what did Secretary Lane say we
went there for, in his letter? 1--WE
! didn't go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta
| to salute the flag. We did go there
| to show Mexico that We were in earn
est in our demand that Huerta must
go, and he did CO." says Lane, be
fore we left" In other words, the
army and navy of the United States
was used to remove the de-facto Pres
ident of Mexico from the Presidency,
to which he had been accredited.
1t has been said that ne was
connected with the murder of Ma
dero. / do not know. Nobody
knows. 1t might have been so,
but is that any reason why we
had to oversee Mexico?
When the President of Peru as
sassinated his predecessors and
walked into his place and became
President, we recognized him In
very short time.
This administration, when the
present President of Hayti as
sassinated the President of Hayti
and became his successor through
blood, recognized him as Presi-
dent The government of the
| United States can not oversee the
method by which all the Presi-
dents of Central America become
| Presidents, and III we did we would
be at war all the time