Show PRESIDENT GRANT AND MEXICO des moines register and leader what would gen grant do with regard to mexico if he were president hold on he either during grants two terms as president there were invasions of american territory by warring bands bander before american troops were sent across the border in 1876 well anyway he got tired of it at last and invaded mexico he no he riot not after the fashion of the gentlemen who are talking about the sullying of american honor by renegade gen grant negotiated a it treaty with mexico giving neither country the right to send armed troops into the territory of the other when in hot pursuit of bandits or hostile indians in accordance with that treaty an american military force cross ed the mexican border in pursuit of the apache chief geronimo and it took just eight years to put that gentleman where ho he could do no more mischief what would be said by col roosevelt senator F fall all and oth ot ner upholders of our national honor and dignity should president negotiate with carranza a treaty similar to that hat which grant entered into with diaz who was then rocking insecurely secure lyon on the seat he had just seized from juarez after years of revolution it is easy to picture the fearful ou outbreak of denunciation nuncia nun clation tion which would follow treason and poltroonery would be altogether to mild as descriptive titles yet grant did it grant the great military leader the man whose iron blows broke down the confederacy he put up with 10 times as many invasions of the united states instates as have taken place since the fall of madero and before ii invading mexico he obtained permission froni that country and gave mexico legal right to put her armed soldiers upon ulion our own soil it is possible that grant failed to appreciate the dignity of the U S government and the sacredness of american life we will even give him special prominence although we honestly believe he will be the most unimportant person there at the same time we are afraid we will have to go right ahead mentioning these people that we have been mentioning with such frequency they have a habit boosting the town and helping the church and mixing in polities politics and getting up parades and financing the baseball team and running the clubs and a lot of other things so their names are bound to creep into the paper but come to think of it that news about them so much as it is news about the town for it is such things as these that are making the town life and the town progress and if we left their names out we would pretty nearly have to leave but the bhe name of the town and we wont do that not if we lose two subscribers when he was in his early twenties he got married and we mentioned that including the name of 0 the bride the officer who married them relatives from somewhere else in fact fart we mentioned everything but the fee which was hardly worth mentioning we must confess that the only time we have ever mentioned him since was to say that he was wearing abroad smile because of the arrival of a boy or a girl we searched our files but we must own up that the only time he broke into the paper was by the help of somebody else we never mentioned the fact that hat he ever won any premiums at the county fair because he never exhibited anything we levei never included his name in a list of committees because he never attended anything we never printa his name in a list of dona tora ors to anything bec because ause he never donated so much as a doughnut we certainly have been treating this man shameful but we will agree torun to run a nice obituary when the time comes and tell you who were at the funeral it |