The Washington herald., 1916-05-09
BORAH ATTACKS
MEXICAN POLICY
Member Of Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee Calls Will
son Method Illuminating"
CARRANZA Is ASSAILED
Senator Declares Administration S
Handling of Situation Is Greatest
Outrage of All History.

Senator William e Borah, member of
the Foreign Relations Committee OF the
Senate and an aggressive Republican OF
the Progressive type, yesterday ar
raigned the administration of President
Wilson for its Mexican policy, which the
Senator characterized as "humiliating.
History, the Senator said, would not fur
nish parallel for the story of national
humiliation imposed on the United States
by the Presidents failure to protect
American lives in Mexico and particular
ly because of the repeated loss OF life
due to raids.
Senator Borah has been expressing his
disgust privately on the Mexican situa-
ton recently but has hesitated about
speaking publicly while the administra-
tion showed a disposition to try to cor
rect the evils complained of, but the raid
on Glenn Springs, Tex. and the killing
of Americans aroused the Idaho Senator,
and when asked for a statement yester-
day he said:
"I do not suppose there is another story
in history so humiliating as our relation
ship with Mexico. There have been times,
of course, when weak and defenseless
nations have had to suffer indignity and
all kinds OF outrages, have had to sub
nit to the robbery and murder of their
, citizens simply because of their weak
ness and their inability to protect their
own. But venture 10 say you will not
find in the pages of history an instance
in which a strong, powerful nation, a
nation protesting service toward all
mankind and assuming to be the guard
ian of the rights of humanity has ever
submitted as we have week after week,
month after month. and year after year
to the studied and ostentatious insults,
to the ravishment Of its women and TO
the murder of its men at the hands OF
the Mexicans.
Citizens Not Protected.
These things have happened to our
people and we have submitted to 1t not
only while our citizens were on foreign
soil though protected by a solemn treaty.
but even when they were upon their own
territory and under their own flag.
Leave out for a time the four years OF
brutal treatment OF our people in Mex
leo where all principles of humanity and
our solemn treaties and national honor
required us to protect them. and consider
alone the murders on this side OF the bor-
der. the repeated. continued. persistent
| outrages upon our citizens for the last
five years. Is 1t any wonder that no
where are our demands respected and no
where are our citizens protected?
1T must be apparent to any one at
all familiar with the situation that Car
rama cannot restore order in Mexico
he cannot establish a government, and
what concerns US most, he cannot pro-
tect the border. We ought to put enough
troops upon the border to make abso-
lutely safe the lives OF our own people,
and II any man or combination Of men
in Mexico undertake In any way to en-
barrass US or prevent US from protect
ing the border or the lives Of our citi-
zens or furnishing those who murder our
citizens we should consider them as
enemies and treat them the same as the
others"