The Arizona copper camp., 1916-10-27

Snall nOlQ tnOse responsible Tor their
sufferings and losses to a definite
reckoning. This can be and will be
put beyond the possibility of a mis-
understanding" On the same day he
sent to the American consul general
and consular agents in Mexico two
kilograms instructing them "to notify
all officials, military or civil, exercis
ing authority that they would be held
strictly responsible for any harm done
to Americans or for injury to their
property" These were fine words.
Excellent words! They were as good
as the words in the democratic plat
form four years ago and now, to the
effect that all American citizens, at
home and abroad must be protected
in their rights, and no wrongs permit
mted against their persons or prop
erty. The trouble is that neither the
promises and menaces of President, nor
the pledges in the democratic platform,
were worth the paper on which they
were written, nor the breath expended
in uttering them.
Words of No Meaning
"Mr. Wilson's notice was explicit and
emphatic. If he had meant what he
said, and if he had possessed the small
est fraction of the resolution and
courage of such democratic president
as Andrew Jackson, he would have
lived up to this notice. He would
have acted at once against every
leader, whether Huerta, Villa or Car
rama, or anyone else who permitted
injury to American life and property,
or who failed to prevent it; and If
necessary, he would have sent some
such man as General Leonard Wood
into the country to behave precisely
as we behaved in Cuba. to rehabiliate
Mexico and to restore her to her peo-
pie just as we did in the case of Cuba,
when order and civilization again OBJ
tanned in the country Instead Of do
ing this, President Wilson stood idly
by while hundreds Of Americans were
murdered. He has not protected
American lives and American proper
ty. All that he has done has been
from time to time to help one bandit
leader against some other bandit lead
er. The Tampico incident furnishes
the best proof of this fact. There
were 5000 American refugees in
Tampico whose lives were threated by
the Mexican revolutionists. American
gunboats were in the harbor to protect
them. But President Wilson was not
concerned with their protection. He
was concerned solely with helping his
then friend, Villa and antagonizing
Villas foe, Huerta. He was furnish
ing Villa with the arms when Villa
used for the slaughter of Americans.
We have it on the authority Of Mr..
Wilson's friend and champion, Senator
Lewis, of Illinois, that Mr.. Wilson ac-
tually intended to recognize Villa the
murderer, raider and robber, as preSi-
dent, but was afraid to do so because
Of the republican opposition. The
American ships at Tampico were with
drawn from this duty of protecting the
lives of American men, women and
children from would be murderers, and
sent to operate against Huerta at Vera
Cruz in the interest Of Villa The
Americans owed their lives to the pro-
lection Of the German and British
warships. Whether this dreadful be-
trayal Of duty was due Immediately
to the direct action Of Secretary Dan
iels, or to the action Of the officers
whom he had put in charge at Tam
pico and Vera CRUZ is Of no conse-
quence. The ultimate responsibility
for this, and for all the other shame
ful episodes in Mexico, rests directly
on President Wilson himself
A Contributor to Bankruptcy
president Wilson has been the Mex
leans during these three and half
years become socially, politically and
morally bankrupt. He has not helped
Mexico. He has ruined Mexico. The
jungle is creeping over the great plan
tations. The cattle on the ranches
have become wantonly and wastfully
slaughtered. The thoroughbred stock
farms which were the work of de-
cades have been destroyed. Irriga-
tion plants are out of service, rail-
roads terminals have been burnt, roll
ing stock and locomotives broken up
and damaged beyond repair. Mines
that furnish employment to scores of
thousands are standing idle. The
national treasury has been emptied.
A paper currency, debased and worth
tion's money. All the means Of an
orderly economic life have been de-
stroyed. An epidemic of typhus RACES
that twice has menaced the health of
our border cities. The country no
longer produces sufficient foodstuffs
Actual starvation is upon the people.
Sixty thousand white men, who were
one Of the great civilizing and develop
ing forces of Mexico, are in exile. The
jungle, the desert and cruel primitive
savagery hold sway. Carranza's gov
eminent Ia hnf shall 0f Anthnrifv