The Snowflake herald., 1916-10-27
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by Mexican bandits for fear that he
should offend Japan and Germany.
For the three and half years of his
term of office he has kept us IN a
condition of such military and naval
impotence that we dare not assert
even such elementary rights as that
American citizens shall be secure in
life and property, not merely in a
foreign land, but even within our own
borders-for remember that scores of
our citizens have been killed and
wounded within our own boundaries.
The Presidents Confession
Remember always that the infamies
that have been committed in Mexico
have been explicitly set forth by Presi-
dent Wilson himself through his secre-
tary of state on June 20, last Presi-
dent Wilson in the course of his efforts
to shield Carranza, denounced the
truthful statement of the hideous con-
ditions in Mexico as being a traffic
in falsehoods" designed to create in
tolerable friction between our govern
ment and Carranza's in the interest
of certain owners of Mexican prop
critics." He made these deliberate
charges on March goth, last. Senator
Fall promptly challenged Pres. Will
son 10 name these alleged conspirators
and also challenged him to make public
the documents in the state department
AS always, when challenged fearlessly
President Wilson promptly flinched
He has not dared to make public the
documents in the state department,
and by failing to public the names of
the alleged conspirators during these
seven months, he has admitted that
his statement was without foundation
in fact. But this is not all. His note
of June goth is the fullest and most
complete admission of all that has been
charged and all that he has denied or
palliated. The facts therein set forth
furnish a complete and irrefutabIe con-
demnation Cf his own policy towards
Mexico and towards Carranza.
Murderous Ca+rancistas
This authoritative statement issued
by Mr.. Wilson through his secretary
of state sets forth that for three years
there has been continuous bloodshed
and disorder in Mexico; that Americans
have been barbarously murdered, and
vast properties developed by American
capital and enterprise destroyed that
the murderers have not been brought
to Justice; that during the past nine
months there have been constant in
vasions, depredations and murders on
American soil by Mexican bandits; that
American soldiers have been killed;
American ranches raided, American
railway trains wrecked and plundered,
and American towns destroyed; and
that CarranZa's soldiers and adherents
took part in the looting, burning and
killing; that murders were char
acterized by ruthless brutality and
barbarous mutilation; that some of
the leaders in these atrocities have not
only received protection but encourage
ment and aid from CarranZa's govern
ment; that during this time there was
instance after instance of the barbarOus
slaughter of unoffending Americans in
Mexico itself, in addition to the heinous
crimes committed in numbering, burn
ing and plundering on American soil;
that CarranZa'S generals made no eff
fort to stop the crimes, and that Car
rama himself was either unable, or
else considered it undesirable, to pun
ish the criminals; that CarranZa gave
neither cooperation nor assistance to
the American troops who pursued the
bandits; that on the contrary Carran-
za's adherents halted the American
pursuit at Parral and became the pro-
tectors of Villa and his bandits; and
that Carranza's government has shown
that it does not intend nor desire that
the outlaws bandits and criminals who
have been guilty of these murders and
outrages, shall be captured, destroyed
or dispersed, either by American troops
or by Mexican troops.
In the above statement I have used
the exact words of Mr.. Wilson's secre-
tary, merely condensing the statement
and keeping exactly it's sense. have
not used one word not contained in
the statement. No indictment by me
of Mr. Wilson's policy could be as
strong as that furnished by himself.
Immediately afterwards occurred the
treacherous murder of our troops at
Carrizal. Then Mr.. Wilson became
frightened, bowed in object submis
sion to Carranza, kissed the hand that
was red with the blood of American
men and women, and, inasmuch as he
dared not hold Carranza responsible,
began in unmanly fashion to scold
Carranza's wretched American victims
"Kept Us Out of War"
Mr. Wilson says he has kept us out
of war" The democratic platform
says that the Mexicans" have made
war upon and murdered our people :"
For once the democratic platform told
the truth. Mr.. Wilson says that some
of the murdered men were barbarously
mutilated In the press one such case
of mutiIation is described. Two troop
ers of the 18th u. S. cavalry, Henry
Stubblefield and Richard Johnson, one
from Virginia and one from New York,
were killed by Carranza's troops at
Progreso, Texas, on September 20, 1915.
Stubblefield's body was found soon
after the fight. Johnson was reported