Show i i I II I i I 1 1 Editors Discuss Discuss' Mexican Outrage r Newspaper r comment throughout the country on the killing g of civili civilians ns a and aid d soldiers soldiers' at N N. N M. M by Villa and his band is almost almost- unanimous in a demand a-demand demand for swift s punishment of the guilty Mexicans by an a armed med force of Americans That this government should send an n armed force orce i to Me to round up the murderers s is the opinion expressed in m excerpts from the newspapers of many states given below New York World World Nothing less than Villas Villa's life Ufe can atone for the outrage at Columbus N N. N M M. M It r. r Every drop of American blood shed at Columbus Is on his hands So far as an It Is possible for a bandit to be beat at war Villa Is now at war with both Mexico and the United States The Mexican government In spite of the efforts of Carranza has proved roved unable to cope ope with the situation and so sot t the e duty of effective e action action devolves devolves upon the United United States 1 I New York Tribune It Is time i to put an end to to this this shameful farce of enforcing American rights against Mexican assassins Killing Americans on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande simply I because they arc are Americans Is a a breach of treaty Killin Killing Americans on this this side of ot the Rio Ro Grande b by organized bodies of Mexicans cans is is an act of war 11 The only remedy y left left to the United States Is to enter the territory in which Villa I Is s operating and which he claims to control control con con- and deal with him and his If followers as open enemies s. s New York Times The paramount duty of our government is to its own citizens and We we cannot afford to make this latest Mexican outrage a matter for extended I parley and negotiation It is a most deplorable situation situation and It has developed i in a critical hour hour but the national duty cannot t be avoided The important question now is not not what hat Carranza thinks but what he can do promptly without caviling to capture the murderers punish them the and stop all lawlessness lawless ness part of his his country which adjoins ours j i New York Press There are two things we can do We can tell Carranza that we will assist him to torun run down cown all the outlaws that are near enough the American line to tomake tomake tomake make trouble on n our territory We can can tell him that If he he invites us to assist him we will do doso so so in behalf of his government and in the name name of his authority But that if he does not invite us we shall assist him nevertheless to that very end We can tell him this with friendly but firm assurance that we mean to get action Immediately Then with or without his lils Invitation we can act Philadelphia Record It is difficult to see how armed intervention In Mexico can be longer avoided not avoided not intervention in the political affairs of that country but intervention inter for self protection The affair at Columbus N. 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M was Indisputably ah ab act of war The United Stat States s cannot submit to invasions nd other violations vio vIo- lations of its territory tory and the government at Washington cannot accept assurances assurances assurances as as- from Mexico that do not riot assure Our territory has been violated and American citizens have been m murdered in their own homes homez The invaders have fought American troops and killed and wounded a large number This Iswar is iswar iswar war and when war Is made on the nation t the nation must defend itself St. St StLouis Louis Post Villas Villa's bloody raid on on Columbus New our o our r intervention In Mexico to the the extent extent at least of clearing u up the Villa bandits inevitable I III II Hesitation on the part art of the administration in this would crisis crisis would be fatal It would be a reproach to the United States II American troops should be sent at at once after Villa In Mexican t territory Not a da day should be allowed to pass ass without action What the ultimate ultimate consequences consequences of of anex an expedition edition a against Villa may be we do not know We should prepare Immediately immediate Im mediate mediately and vigorously sly Congress g should act on bills bills bills' providing for or an adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate army r y and navy avY I. I Boston ton Journal About the only good healthy possibility that suggests itself after this latest slaughtering of American citizens on on their own soil is that some some- harum sea rum lieutenant might forget the rules of international procedure long enough to lead a few troopers across the line and conduct a hanging bee to suit himself That unruly young policeman would be brought before a court court- martial The proceedings would be highly interesting We are not likely to declare war war on on Mexico because of this raid or any other like It We are not likely to treat Mexico with such gra grand d manners But the time Is coming when we shall have to drop our department rhetoric and treat Mexico as a state infested with wild tribes who menace our territory Boston Herald In the fall of Carranza which lich cannot now be long delayed the Wilson administration administration ad ad- ministration will have just two courses of action open before it it By the recognition recognition rec rec- of a representative of the element which alone seems fit to rule and by giving such a leader our our backing backing we may restore order there once more I There is still stilla a possibility And such men are available Our only other al alternative alternative al- al is s intervention and nd this Is a very big i word very r R New Orleans Picayune The question whether intervention is to follow m must st be answered e f by Carranza Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza himself If he shows himself unwilling or unable to stop these murderous raids upon American soil and American towns Intervention mar be ma may be forced however unwilling the Was Washington government is Car Carranza's duty was never clearer Unless he can with can with or without the ald of American troops which already are moving to the task with celerity and enthusiasm enthusiasm eliminate eliminate these countrymen of of his who have run ruri amuck his inc incapacity will be rather convincingly con con- established Lincoln Nebraska State Journal I Should it be necessary to dispatch a military expedition across the Mexican Mexican Mexican can border fo for the punishment of the bandits who have hav raided an American town and killed Inoffensive citizens as as well as ac soldiers we believe it can be bedone bedone bedone done without promoting suspicion the anywhere that the American government is interfering unduly interfering unduly with the affairs of its neighbors All Latin America especially must be convinced by this time that the United States has no desire desire desire de de- de- de sire to bully any any of its neighbors or use ute an affair of this nature as a pretext to acquire more territory y Milwaukee Free Press f This is is' is isn an n opportunity for forr th the administration admInistration to say whether it will be as prompt to avenge a real insult at the hands of Mexico as It threatens threatens' to be toward Germany ermany In case of a ques questionable reflection upon the United States tates I Phi Philadelphia ladelphia Press i I The invasion of New Mexico by Villa and his bandits makes vigo vigorous ous action by fay our government our now com compulsory Colonel Slocums Slocum's prompt pursuit of th the 4 assassins across across the Mexican boundary and his promise to continue after them u uril they are caught is the sound American policy which we hope our government will approve and support President Wilson is now called on to protect the lives arid property of Americans on American territory and to punish the lawless Mexicans He cannot ask the weak Carranza to do this for him t I Philadelphia Inquirer The situation is la serious It is one that can no longer be met by mere watchful dreamland Waiting The administration will be expected to come down lown from clouds l ud of dreamland and look conditions squarely In n the face and wrestle with the problem in earnest New Orleans I Item tem Why b become come so agitated about abou incidental I injury injury to to heedless and mischievous ous citizens wh who come tome to tt hurt In a zone of regularly declared warfare on armed ships under warring under warring flags from which they have been courteously warned and requested to keep away when they could move as well as-well well by other conveyances s Why become so excited excited- about this when we retain so so admirably admirably ably our academic c calm cairn lin In the face of wanton murder and pillage of our tit cit on their own soil by the citizens of another country who Invade ours to rob cob and murder us I Boston Glo Globe c. c Had Villa not been declared a bandit and an outlaw we would be at war with Mexico at atthe the present presen moment It If would not be because we wished but because the Mexicans wished it A nation attacked has no choice Villa as a bandit prese presents ls' ls a more difficult problem He cannot be allowed to repeat his dastardly performance at Columbus under any circumstances He Is now a aman man who has has' as committed murder o on n American soil soli The United States has a duty to perform regarding a fugitive murderer and that is to get him I. I Boston Post For Far the raid of Villa upon pon United States territory at Columbus Columb s N N. N M. M and Continued on page pa-e 5 5 EDITORS DI DISCUSS MEXICAN AN OUTRAGE page I Ifor Continued Conlin from rom pa 4 for the killing by his crew of American citizens this this- government must ex exact ct the sternest and most exemplary punishment The limit of patience Is reached I I with this latest test atrocity and the country will heartily commend the state departments department's departments department's de de- de- de demand on Carranza that the United be given free rein to chastise Villa and his crew of rascals In th the way they deserve Topeka Daily Capital General Villa once a patriot of apparently great promise or promises has has relapsed into his original character of an outlaw wholly reckless of the consequences of his crimes crimes' of violence The United States should follow this murderer up invading Mexican territory far enough and long enough to get him drag him out of the country and hand him the punishment his crimes deserve Patience has reached the limit where it ceases to be a virtue In hi the case of the border ruffians In Mexico Providence Journal The slaughter of American citizens on Mexican soil soll several weeks ago has none lone Now comes this double offense offense killing killing and burning by MexIcans Mexicans Mex Mex- Mexicans on American American soil The Invasion of New Mexico is a crude frontier Imitation Imitation imitation Imi Imi- tation of the German Invasion of Belgium We read of treachery employed innocent noncombatants shot down In cold blood buildings set on fire and in one pase pace oil used to hasten the work of ruin It Is a distressful picture andOne andone and andone one whose repetition we roust must not Invite As Carranza cannot keep order In northern Mexico It becomes necessary for us to do so Whether Wh ther by arrangement arrangement arrange arrange- ment with Ith him or Independently y we e must put a stop to the r reign of I license cense along the international border Denver Rocky Mountain News The invasion of American territory and and tl the e butchery of American citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens by renegade Villa and his tile band of cutthroats at Columbus N. 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M calls Imperatively for decisive action from Washington such st stops steps ps as will the whole tribe of revolutionists and pillagers that tolerance has ceased to be bea a political virtue even with this national administration and that retribution is at hand not only for these later crimes but those which have gone V be be- fore The murder of American miners a few weeks ago by a Villa band bandre remains remains remains re re- re- re mains The vacillating policy pursued by the Wilson administration tion has made possible this last outrage as well as many that have ave preceded It Punishment swift and certain for Villa and his associates Is is demanded by the nation It may be named in any term one chooses to select select Intervention intervention InvasIon Invasion in- in a punitive expedition expedition but but there must be an ari end to this drifting watchful waiting policy In dealing with Mexico Atlanta Constitution Invasion of the United States by the bandit Villa with his horde of f out outlaw ut- ut I law brigands and their wanton slaughter of Innocent men women and children chin chil dr dren n in th the D peaceful town of Columbus N. 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M is the last straw plied piled on the burden of endurance his Is country could be expected to bear In its dealings with turbulent ridden rebel and Mexico The limit of Mexican offense has been reached rere must roust b be both punishment for the crime crime and prevention for forthe forthe forthe the future If the Carranza government does not accomplish both and very speedily by its own volition then there is nothing to do but to send troops into Mexico and clean up sup the whole whole Villa band Philadelphia Bulletin The atrocity which Is reported today from the little New Mexico town of Columbus on the te Mexican border corder order Is the price which might have been expected expected expected ex ex- for the continued policy of watchful waiting for the Mexican problem to solve itself If Carranza represents a recognizable government in Mexico intervention will be welcomed If action in self protection shall be resented the consequence will be only to precipitate a crisis that would have to-be to to be met ultimately Richmond Times Whether Carranza gives or withholds his approval approval and and he Is not likely to withhold it the It-the the Invasion of American citizens by Villa and his guerrillas must be followed by the capture and punishment of the offenders So want wanton n a defiance of American sovereignty indicates Indicates' that Carranza cannot suppress insurrection Invasion of the United States Is a very different thing from disorders within the confines of Mexico I II I Provid Providence Ev Evening ning Bulletin After this bloody and convincing demonstration that hat the Carranza government government government gov- gov is unable to cope with the anarchy which already had cost heavily I in American lives It does not seem that the United States can avoid prompt and forceful action to protect Its own territory and citizens from further I ravage The Columbus massacre ought to mark the beginning of the end of the all too long delayed solution of the Mexican problem pr blem There is- is Is no longer I any alternative to intervention i Boston Traveller W We ass assume me that the administration is firm in the belief that while Americans Americans Ameri Amerl cans are not entitled to protection on or Mexican soil soli they are entitled to pro protection protection pro pro- on American soil soli even though that soil soli was once the property of Mexico We assume that if the other gang of bandits headed heade by Carranza which has been recognized by this government as a Mexican government cannot cannot and and probably it cannot prevent cannot prevent such attacks on Americans American's at home as were committed today the a administration will see its way clear to doing something on its own account i V Baltimore American Americana I IThe The United States cannot condone the latest Mexican outrage This border border bor bor- der tragedy emphasizes the fact that conditions have not been bettered since bor 1 Carranza was given the approval of this country Whatever the motive behind |