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Cl)e 3e[|%rsonian
Vol. 13, No. 17
What They Want is a War Against Mexico!
THE Macon Telegraph of last Saturday
gave the news from Mexico under the
headline—
c “CARRANZA TROOPS SHOT AMER
ICANS WHO SOUGHT FOOD."
Many people read nothing but the. head
lines, and such headlines as the above are most
inaccurate and reprehensible.
I am sorry to note that other Georgia
papers have imitated the Telegraph, and
given a color to the Mexican tragedy which
is not warranted by the facts.
Let us calmly review those facts.
General Porfirio Diaz had become a dicta
tor during his later years; had protected the
slave trade in Yucatan; had winked at the
kidnapping of whites, as well as Indians; had
made money out of the horrible traffic; had
violated the law of his country by restoring
much of the ill-gotten wealth of the Roman
church, and by allowing the. Jesuits and nuns
to re-establish their secret Bastilles.
Francisco Madero headed a movement
against the aged Dictator,- who was forced
to call an election for the Presidency.
In the voting, Madero was victorious, and
he supplanted Diaz,'legally, and bloodlessly.
At once,.the Church party and the land
kings began to conspire against him.
Archbishop Mora financed the conspiracy,
and Felix Diaz was its military head.
Felix Diaz made a miserable failure of his
Revolt, and he was condemned to be shot.
\V HEN the Servian student killed the
Austrian prince, England and France
were the only nations of Christendom that
had no ambassadors at the Vatican palace
of the Italian pope.
I have heard well-posted men assert posi
tively that the German Emperor had ho am
bassador to the pope, but such men are mis
taken. The German minister did not leave
the papal court until Italy entered the war.
England has humbled itself to the pope, by
sending an ambassador; and Herbert As
quith, the English Prime-minister, thought it
necessary to go in person to Rome, and kiss
the pope’s hand. If Mr. Asquith paid a visit
to the King of Italy, while in Rome, the press
dispatches failed to mention the fact.
The political reason which compelled Mr.
Asquith’s action is, the treason and rebellion
which exists in Catholic Ireland, a source of
weakness to Great Britain and one of the
causes of her poor showing in the war.
It is to be hoped that Sir Richard Carson
will overthrow the Asquith administration,
and restore Protestantism,.
France has not knuckled to Rome, and it
is against republican France that 660,000
Germans have been directing their tremen
dous attacks.
German spies have been caught in the act,
Remarkable Features of the European War.
Thomson, Ga., Thursday, April 20, 1916
Very foolishly, Madero freed the man,
giving him a pardon for his treason.
This of course encouraged Diaz and others
to persevere: and in due time the'American
Ambassador, Henry Lane Wilson, became one
of the most malevolent of all the plotters.
General Huerta, upon whom President
Madero implicity relied, betrayed his master;
and he, Diaz, and Wilson apparently worked
in harmony to overthrow a perfectly legal
government.
The result of the Diaz-Huerta-Mora plot
was. that Madero’s own troops were turned
against him, and his trusted lieutenant,
Huerta, had him murdered.
Along with the President of Mexico, the
conspirators shot the Vice-President, also;
and what his crime was, no one has ever
stated.
Huerta then seized all the power, and Diaz
fled for his life. Apparently. Huerta meant
to murder him, too; and Diaz got out of Vera
Cruz, and on to a friendly vessel, by jumping
from roof to roof.
A squad of our marines went ashore at
Tampico, as sea-faring men are prone to do,
when they get the chance.
Martial law had been proclaimed at Tam
pico, and the local Mexican officer had our
young men arrested.
What business did they have on Mexican
soil when a war was in progress?
and punished, in these United States, in Rus
sia, in England, and in France; but no
French, Russian, or English spy has been ar
rested or accused, in Germany, Austria, or
Turkey.
The* German spy system has apparently
spread itself over the world, for we hear of
its activities in China, India, Egypt and
Persia.
Nobody even accuses the French and Eng
lish of having a spy system at work in the
countries of their enemies.
Not a drop of neutral blood has been shed
by the Allies, either on land or sea. On the
contrary, the German emperors provoked the
war bv their breach of the Treaty of 1878,
wherein the small Greek-Catholic states in
the Balkans were protected.
Austria, the Treaty-trustee for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, crushed her wards about like
Germany ravaged Belgium; and it was her
preparation to treat Servia the same way that
caused Russia and England to interpose.
On the ocean, the German fleet has not
ventured to appear, but her under-sea boats
have waylaid and assassinated neutrals- and
non-combatants, just as though the war was
being waged upon all mankind, including
the peaceful traveller, his wife and his child.
Do you suppose that Elbert Hubbard sus-
The excuse given was that Admiral Mayo
was short of oil!
Anyway, the marines were released in an
hour or so, and a prompt appology was ten
dered to Mayo.
But the Admiral got on his highest horse,
rejected the apology, and demanded that his
flag be saluted within a given time.
This not having been done, our Peace Doves
—Wilson and Bryan—ordered part of our
fleet to Vera Cruz, where not a soul had of
fended us, and nineteen of our brave boys
were killed in the taking of that city.
How many of the Mexicans were slain?
Ko one knows.
After we got Vera Cruz, we did not know
what to do with it; and, after so long a
time, our troops were ordered away without
any salute.
Archbishop Mora fled for life, just as
Huerta did; and Mora came to New Orleans
to incubate fresh plots with slippery Jim
Gibbons.
Huerta was brought back from Spain, but
was nabbed at El Paso, where, according to
the Roman priests, he proved himself to be
“a charming man,” and where he died, amid
the oils, candles, pancakes, and mummeries of
Romanism.
Then Felix Diaz was picked up again, and
sent to Southern Mexico to stir up trouble for
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pected that lie and his wife ran any risk in
taking passage upon the Lusitania?
Was he not justified in believing that the
Law of Nations shielded him and her from
cold, deliberate, malicious murder?
The German ambassador did a thing with
out precedent in the history of the world:
he advertised- in the New York papers Ger
many’s intent to waylay and sink that pas
senger ship!
Yet President Wilson did nothing but sit
down at his typewriter and knock out a
smooth academic letter to the Kaiser, telling
him, in effect, that he’d better not do that,
again.
Whereupon, the Kaiser kept on doing it.
The Germans sank our own steamer, the
William Frye, and when they pn into our
waters to escape the English pursuers, they
were given an ovation.
From the manner in which Hon. J. Daniels,
Secretary of the Navy, greeted those pirates,
in public, you’d have thought they had con
ferred an honor upon us by destroying one
of our merchant-vessels.
Did the German officers give their word,
as gentlemen, to respect their parole?
Os course they did. How did those officers
keep their plighted faith?
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Price, Five Gents
