Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-19

Americans had been killed by the Mex
leans in recent years than were killed
in the Spanish American war, he said,
and the force now on the border was
far larger than the armies that took
Cuba and the Philippines. He dero-
gated claims OF good wiz of Mexi-
cans for this country and cited press
dispatches to support his contention
that the Mexicans would be glad TO
see America embroiled with an Euro
pean power.
Touching on the rights of citizens
abroad, Colonel Roosevelt said:
For three years there has been no
protection of our citizens abroad. The
rights of citizen of the United States
to demand the protection of his gov
eminent when wronged by a foreign
power have been settled by the supreme
court of the United States, when it
said (s3 U. s., page 79) 1t is the
privilege of a citizen of the United
States to demand the care and pro-
lection of the federal government over
his life, liberty and property when on
the high seas or within the turisdic-
ton of a foreign government This
applied to our citizens who lost their
lives from German submarines. 1t APP
piled to our citizens in Mexico who
lost their lives at the hands of the
Mexican soldiers of Carranza. 1t APP
piled to the Americans whose property
i was taken in violation of the princi-
| pies of international law by the Eng
lish fleet. The right to life comes
ahead of the right to property. and I'M
less we first deal with the offenses
against the lives of our citizens, we
have no justification for dealing with
offenses against the property rights of
our citizens. But if we had done our
duty in the first case. it would then
/ have become incumbent upon us to do
our duty in the latter case. At this
moment our first duty should be to see
that American citizens. especially wo-
men and children, shall not be set
afloat in rowboats miles off our coast
on the October seas, as a result of
submarine attacks on merchant yes
sells. The German U-boats in effect
established a pacific blockade of our
coast. The guarantee of the safety of
non combatants aboard the vessels re
Gently torpedoed off our coast was car
ried out by American destroyers, not
| by the German submarines: If the Ger
mans had themselves made good and
intended to make good their guaran-
tees there would have been no neces-
| sity for American destroyers to be
present"
The president had chosen the wrong
alternative at the outset of the great
war, Colonel Roosevelt said, declaring
that he took the course of 'dishonor,
temporary safety and permanent dan
ger" though the executive had out
lined the course of honor, temporary
risk and permanent safety" in a pro-
nouncement which was reiterated IN
the Democratic platform, a portion Of
which he quoted as follows:
We hold that it is the duty Of the
United States to use it's power--in the
interests Of humanity-to assist the
world in securing justice. We believe
that the small states of the world have
the right to enjoy from other nations
the same respect for their sovereignty
and territorial integrity the great pow
ers insist upon. We again declare full
~ the policy that the s~cred rights of
American citizenship must be preserved
at home and abroad.
| Il ask all decent men. all right
t h / II k i ng men of straightforward
minds" Colonel Roosevelt continued,
! whether there ever has been ranker
hypocrisy than the use of such express
sion by the man, and the men, who,
when the conditions they thus set
forth We're met to a dot, to a line, in
the killing of our men. women and
children on the high seas and in Mex
leo. and in the case of invasion of Bel
GUM by Germany, instantly forgot
their duty to America. to humanity and
justice and took no action to back Up
their high sounding Words"