The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 19, 1916, Page 18

ST R 3 \ -, - When Woodrow Wilson became president there was an |- embargo upen arms into Mexico, which if maintained would hay prevented -the frightful atrocities that have been perpetra = &ufix;n&the past three years. He raised this embargo, he put ML , é-k&ndp_’o’f. semi-savages arms. with which evern.sipee they 1| havebeen killing Amerieans, English, Germans, and other nation- .| alities and their own people.. He gave them the means for i rgaishngfiie@mexican army, when he finally decided to make | war upon Mexice. And without these supplies the things: that have happened would not have happened. None but President {t | Wilson is responsible for the condition that has shocked charit- ] able societies trying to give relief, and Americans who have had - li'| . long acquaintance with Mexico.- : & Rt - HE SUPPRESSED THE TRUTH. : 7 o But for over two years the president has suppressed the .| . truthin regard to the real situation. He has even refused to sub- "I L mit to the United States senate the information which the state .} 1 deparfment has in regard to the crimes that have been committed | by Villa, ahd other murderous criminals, although the -senate | - made a just and formal demand for this information. Our eon- 1 stitubion gives to congress alone the right to declare war, and . W} et the president refused to submit to them the facts upon which ; ... they could base an intelligent decision. : . i -~ 'When he said “It was not compatible with public interest” 7 - he stood convicted of a subterfuge. He stood convicted of ; { | violating the consfitution of the United States, which he took : B . solemn oath to uphold. He did not wish the American people S R to see his ally, Villa, in his true colors, with the blood of Benton, ‘Bach and hundreds of others dripping from his fingers. He did not wish the American people to see his ally with millions of dol- lars’ worth .of stolen cattle and stolen cotton, brought into and _ disposed of in this country without a protest from him. ‘ ~__ And all this by the man who has been preaching~to us that the best way to settle all public questions was to throw/ open the - blinds and let in the light of publicity; and whothreatened to point out, and justly so, with the finger of publicity, any million- S aire who would even dare to suggest a panic, and thus annihilate - him forever with public opinion. Sheic Tty | E the public were given the facts, the moving hand behin the scenes in the Mexican revolutions would be found to be an_ American oil company. If the public were given the facts it rould find that the same oil company has produced a false and ulent public 'opinion by subsidizing a few of the larger and ‘influential -newspapers, which the smaller newspapers unconseciously. follow. If the public were given the facts, the president, who by force of arms overthrew the Mexican govern- ment, and who is responsible for the present revolting conditions in Mexico, would have been shamed out of his position of aiding onsters as Villa and Zapata by the moral and just indigna- an enlightened public opinien, = .= 2 ‘The constitutional rights of American citizens should pro- 1em on our borders and go with them throughout the world, ¢ erican citizen residing or having property in any - ‘entitled to and must be given the full protee- ited States government, both for himself and his _ : says the Democratic platform of 1912, and it was' upon this that many thousands of votes were given to President : e f4ith? No, he has not—he has even assisted the enemies of all government who have committed unspeakab . PAID POLITICAL ADVimyswmmmmarn ° AMERICAN OIL, THE REAL POWER o 14 7. t of War ontrages ‘upon’American citizens; and has éven permitted them to bring into this country and sell the very property that they had stolen from American citizens. If he could talk with the 500 Americans that have been murdered by Villa and other out- “laws—if he would talk to the 20,0600 Americans who have been “deprived of their homes and-all their property by the very men whom he armed, then he would perhaps realize’ why it is that under his administration the American flag is not revered. That these outrages have occurred, and the extent to.which they have occurred; has nowhere been set forth in so forceful language as by President: Wilson’s second secretary of state, Mr. Lansing. “In this official document of the state department, Mr, Lansing said: s U - THE OFFICIAL SELF-INDICTMENT “For three years the Mexican republic has been torn with civil strife, the lives of Americans and other aliens have been sac- rificed; vast properties accumulated by erican capital and enterprise have been destroyed or rendered mon productive; * * * Tt would be tedious :to recount instance. after instance, outrage after outrage, afrocity after atrocity to illustrate the true nature and extent of the widespread condition of lawlessness and vio- lence which has prevailed. During the last nine months in par- ticular the frontier of the United States along the lower Rio Grande has been thrown into a state of constant apprehension and turmoil bécause of the sudden incursions into American terri- tory and depredations and murders on American soil by Mexican bandits who have taken the lives and destroyed the property of American citizens, sometimes carrying American citizens across the international boundary with the booty seized. American gar- risons have been attacked at night, American soldiers killed and their equipment and horses stolen, American ranches have been -raided, property stolen and destroyed, and American trains wrecked and plundered.* * * In these attacks on American terri- ~‘tory Carranzista adherents, and even Carranza soldiers took part in the looting, burning and killing. ~But yet the president continued to pérmit our people to suffer these horrors and injustice, and still his supporters take pride in uttering their slogan, “He kept us out of war." . WAS CALLOUSED TO HORRORS At the time when President Wilson, after having altéi'nately - raised-and lowered the embargo with vacillating purpose, finally again placed an embargo upon arms (Oct. 29, 1915) the names of - 276 Americans who had been slaughtered by the arms and ammu- nition he has allowed to go in, and by the hands of the ruffians who had committed the outrages Mr, Lansing named, were on - file with the state department. How little regard this adminis- tration has had for the safety and dignity of humanity is shown in 3 calm speech by Senator Lodge, in which he said: = “It has gone further than that. These bandits have been turned loose and have thrown themselves upon the most helpless class—upon' the women, upon the priests, and upon the nuns, Itisa revolfingfisbory,-unfortunately only too well authenticated. ‘Mr. Tierney of New York City, when he‘went to the state depart- ment to ask for our good offices to prevent these outrages, has the presence of two friends, that the followers of Huerta had committed similar outrages on two American women from Iowa. . “What a reply to make! Certainly every dictate of human- ity would leadus to do what we could to save those unfortunate _ d women who have been the helpless victims of these half- - stated publicly that it was said to him (by Secretary Bryan) in = | Democratic Records Show | President Wilson Did Not || ~ Keep Us Ou