El Nuevo mexicano., 1916-02-03
tFRoM SPEECH BY SENATOR
A. d. FALL or NEW MEXICO, IN
U. 5. sENATE.)

chairman Of the Foreign Relations
committee, urges Us to assist Mr.
Carranza, 10 hold up Carranza's
hands to give him an opportunity, 70
AFFORD him some chance ito prove that
the President of the United States
was right. He asks the senate Of the
United States to enter Into an alliance
with Carranza to prove that the Pres
ident of the United States vas not
mistaken in hls recognition.
The senator says that we should
not inject politics, but the President
Of the United States. in making q po-
litical speech at Indianapolis upon
this subject, said;
These Mexicans have a right to
spill as much blood as they please
and as long as they please.
He said to his audience and the
newspapers report "applause," ZAP.
pIause"
This is not your business and
II is not my business.
And now he asks us to support onc
Of the factions.
carranza's "Contfolp
In passing, Mr.. President ! want to
say to you, sir. that Mr.. ~Carranzs's
power Is not supreme In any | Of the
n states nor Of the 2 territories Of
the so-called MEXICAN Republic; that
he has no recognized authority in the
State Of Guerrero. where Zapata and,
strange to say, De la Tore. son.in-
law Of Poriirio Diaz, control the state,
as am informed.
The Urrietta forces today are SUI
preme in the State Of Durango. He
has no recognized authority In the
State of Oaxaca-7that great state, the
birthplace Of Juarez and Diaz. He
has but little or no recognized author
ity in many other states.
| call attention to another state
ment Of the senator. He said that
Carranza has men pursuing the muir
derers Of these Americans-suiiicient
armed troops. Who are they, sir?
VIII the senator answer who were the
companions in arms until two weeks
ago Of the murderers who shot down
Watson and his companions?
The greater portion of the men of
Ro~driguez's command and Of Reyna's
command and of Villas command.
surrendered in Juarez and in other
places, some Of them In Chihuahua,
practically the entire garrison of Cas-
as Grandes. 1856 miles south Of FL
Paso and on the road where these
men we're murdered. They have been
for from three to five years compan
ions in arms in the career Of looting
and murder The same thing is true
Of the garrison in the City Of Chihua-
hua. It il reported with Just as much
accuracy, ! think, behind 1t as the
other reports which the Senator ID rel
ceiving from there that a troop train
of Carranza's soldiers left the depot
Blu ten minutes before the train upon
which these Americans left, and it is
yet a mystery, something that is not
known to the Americans, from the
best information / have, whether it
was troops from the Carranza de-
rallied train that committed these
murders or whether they were, as 1t
is said, bandits. If they were bandits.
then where were the Carranzas troops
ahead of the train upon which these
Americans were murdered2 / tell
you, Mr.. President, we need some in
formation about Mexico, and we need
it now.
What Assurances9
What assurances have you obtained
not only as to the willingness OF Car
rama to protect Americans, but as
to his ability to do so?
! read a note from the honorable
secretary Of state to the effect that
to intervene now would be a great
breach Of faith; that we could not do
it without Mr.. Carranza's consent
having once recognized him. In the
first place, as an American / deny
the main premise. In the second place,
| want to ask what authority had the
secretary Of state to choose q leader !.
in Mexico, and to recognize him, i'm
til he had, as other secretaries have P,
done, provided for the protection Of =,
Americans in Mexico? Why did he .
not demand Of this man assurances Of .
his ability to protect Americans be- :
fore extending to him recognition and :
active assistance? That was the time !
to cur from him the permission :
which he says we are now under OBJ :
legation to obtain, that we should !
have the privilege OF going in there .
to protect our citizens whom he can !
not or will not protect. I
One Of the greatest figures Of Mex E
lean history. the great figure Of Mexi- /
can history Mr.. President, Benito h
Juarez, the man who today is wor-
shipped by every Mexican peon and /
whose memory is f~everenced by ev- t
cry intelligent Mexican wherever he
may be, did not think it beneath his
dignity to agree with the United d
States that in the event he could not :
protect American citizens he would s
invite u Intervention, and that If q
upon sudden occasion the necessity b
should arise we would have the right Il
to go in with our armed forces and s
protect them without his invitation S
Why could not the secretary Of state z
obtain such an agreement from Car o
ranza-Carranza, who stands rejected fl
by the people Of Mexico themselves. v
who. when he went into the City OIL Y
Mexico under the muzzles Of our guns t,
at Vera Cruz was not able to remain A
there; whose outrages were such "
that ! viii guarantee that II the notes A
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