The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-23

for Tampico. The other departments
We're trying to discern the policy. -
BY September the whole embargo
was lifted and for a year and month
the Washington administration made
no effort to restrict the carnage iu
Mexico.
CnrranZa Recognized.
During the summer of 1915 thC
| United States and other American re,
! pubics came to a realization that tht
| Mexican scandal could not continue
| much longer or some European ma,
ton with the great war ended, would
take UP the work which the United
States lodged There was confer
cnCe Of ambassadors from Argentina,
Brazil and Chile. and then those
from Bolivia. Uruguay and Guutema-
la. As a result Carranza was recog-
nized and the United States was COM
mitted to aiding him. At that time
and for months afterward the admin
istration holly denied specific charges
against Carranza.
And yet at no time did any of Car
ranza's opponents present to Mr..
Wilson authenticated charges so
grave as those which Mr.. Wilson him
self preferred against Carranza last
June. The extraordinary feature Of
these charges is that they cite cpl
sodes in proof Of the general charges,
and these episodes took place in
September, 1915-the month before
recognition was extended. The strife
Is referred to as occupying three
years-and yet for more than two
years Mr. Wilson had raised the arms
embargo which made that strife pos
sible
Excuse for Action.
Widespread conditions of lawless-
ness and violence, particularly in the
last nine months, are specified and
/ II was eight months since Carranza
had been recognized. although no one
knew why it was necessary to extend
recongnition at that time. Mr.. Wilson
in 4 public address Il few months
before had referred to liars about
Mexico" yet mis- own message to Car
rama confirmed all the lies" when
had been told,
However, Carranza was recog-
nized. despite the fact that at the
time Carran2a had not vet succeeded
in establishing a capital and did not
dare to go to Mexico City for months
10 come. Recognition presumed that
Carran2a was able TO maintain order.
The June 20 statement shows that
he was not able to do so. and had
not been able odo so. II the outside
world needed any evidence such evil
dence was supplied on January H..
when eighteen Americans, bearing a
Carranza permit, were taken from
a Mexican train by Villa bandits at
Santa Ysabel and shot down one by
one.
Murders Unpublished.
Washington stated that Carranza
would punish the murderers, and did
nothing. Neither did Carranza, so
far as there is proof.
On March . Pancho Villa headed
another pack of marauduers who
swarmed into Columbus, n. NJ. at
night burned and sacked the town,
and killed not only fourteen civilians.
including a woman. but seven Ameri-
ca ncayalrymen from the nearby
camp.
II will be recalled that on this oc-
casion CarranZa declared he would
punish the marauders, but this time
American feeling was so outraged
that President Wilson had no choice
but to order pursuit. Carranza
blocked 1t In all possible ways until
he was forced to extend nominal
assistance, with conditions which
Washington mutely and obediently
accepted, ignoring the ruin thus dealt
to the American military expedition.
Let Expedition FaiI.
Two railway lines stretch into
the territory where American troops
had gone In pursuit Of villa. In any
military movement railroads are rec