The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-04-13
Roosevelt Flags Wilson.
He Foresees ''Ghastly Misconduct" If We
Are Ever Menaced by Foreign Foe.

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Il have received many requests from
good American citizens in Mexico asking
If there is net some way by which the
American people may be made to under
stand the utterly baseless character of
President Wilson's recent charge that
American property owners in Mexico
were responsible for stirring up the
trouble therein. All that is necessary is
to ask President Wilson to answer these
perfectly simple questions:
what American or other property
owners in Mexico secured the killing of
the 276 Americans who have been killed
by Mexicans?
''Does Mr.. Wilson mean that it was
American property owners who inspired
him to permit the shipping to the Willis
tas of the thousands of rifles and NUM-
tions of war which they have now used
to kill our people?
docs Mr.. Wilson mean that American
property o~ ners inspired his then friends,
the Villistas and Carranzistas, shooting
across our border on different occasions
to kill on our own soil nine American
soldiers and wound many others?
Does Mr.. Wilson mean that it was
the American and foreign owners of
property in Mexico who inspired the Viii
llstas and Carranzistas in repeated af-
trays at Naco, by shooting over the line
into American territory, to kill and
wound. all told, some fifty-seven Ameri-
cans, including American women, Am
erican soldiers in the American uniform,
and the American collector of customs!
The Embargo.
docs Mr. Wilson mean that it was
the owners of property in Mexico who
secured the attack on American and other
foreign men, women and children at Tam
pico, and secured also the direction by
President Wilson and Secretary Daniels
to the American war vessels at Iamplco
to steam away and leave German and
English vessels to protect the American
civilians to whom Mr.. Wilson had denied
the protection of the Stars and Stripes?
Does Mr.. Wilson mean that property
owners in Mexico were responsible for
his alternately placing and lifting the
embargo on the export of arms and mu-
nitions to Mexico until every bandit who
wished arms with which to shoot Ameri-
cans had them?
Vera Cruz.
docs MIR. Wilson mean that these
property owners got him to 60 to war by
taking Vera Cruz after fighting IN which
several hundred Americans and Mexicans
lost their lives, this war being entered
into for the purpose of getting the flag
saluted. and then abandoning it, without
getting it saluted?
'tor three years there has been muir
derous anarchy, frightful destruction of
property, frightful destruction of life,
nameless intamies committed on women,
and every element telling for law and
order Systematically hunted down and
destroyed or driven out of the country.
"Mr. Wilson through these three years
has actively interfered in Mexico and
throughout the time he has consistently
interfered on behalf of some representa-
tive of banditry or the forces of anarchy,
He has done everything he could against
or in disregard of the men who repre-
scented the only chance to get peace and
orderly liberty for the Mexican people.
Second War in Mexico,
"He is now engaged in second war in
Mexico. He is waging a war against
Villa, with whom but little more than
a year ago he concluded what was in eff
feet treaty of peace and friendship
formally entered into through one of the
highest officers of the United States
army, General Scott, by President Will
son s direction.
photographs of Villa and General
Scott and the other participants in, this
extraordinary bit of treaty making were
published broadcast throughout the press.
You can find one of them in the files of
the Metropolitan magazine of about
year ago.
Il most earnestly wish peace in Mexi-
co and with Mexico and every step Mr.
Wilson has taken with regard to Mexico
for the last three years has tended to
make peace impossible.
THE great war in Europe has now
been waged for twenty months. MeXi-
can armed forces have been killing and
wounding Americans at intervals for
five years, yet under the Presidents lead
our Government has failed to make the
smallest measure of preparedness. AS
regards Mexico, our Government has ap-
parently believed it could insure peace
by helping first one and then another
among the warning chiefs of banditry,
and now II is endeavoring tn prop up
Carranza against its former tavorite,
Villa.
The President to Blame.
In his message to Congress of Decem-
Der, 1914, President Wilson asserted we
were thoroughly prepared to defend our
rights, and that il was hysterical and
panIcky To talk of the need of further
preparedness. He has since forced out
Of the cabinent Secretary of War, be-
cause the President would not even back
the small and insufficient measure of pre-
paredness which the Secretary of War
advocated.
In consequence. as Mr.. Wilson him
self said 10 one of his speeches last Feb
ruary, he has been exposed TO the hui
initiation Of being unable { D patrol our own
borders TO protect it against bandits. We
broke down completely even in the pre-
paredness necessary for the minute ex-
pedition that has gone into Mexico. Our
aerOplane service went to pieces Just as
previously our submarine service had
gone TO pieces. The army and navy Of
ficers are not in the least TO blame, but
the President and his subordinates, whose
actions for the last three yecrs have
caused these calamities, are woefully to
blame.
Our troops are now 300 miles in Mex
leo and it is announced that the Govern
ment is trying to buy automobile trucks
for them in Michigan.
Chastity Misconduct
The President is right to use the word
Humiliation 1t is that and more than
that for the American people and it re-
nreseptS phaStlv mjspOnHuc, on tho mort