Show SLAUGHTER IN MEXICO i ti The killing of a trainload of Americans in m Mexico l J by the beaten faction of Villas Villa's ban bandits Bits was op land very much like the sinking of the Lusitania at sea The men should never have been V sent there without a sufficient guard to protect them The United States government in concert with Brazil Argentine and Chile recognized Carr Carranza anza and withdrew all help and recognition rec roc from Villa Vina who had won all L Carranza's Carranza s victories That left eft Villa in the same si situation tuition that the Southern Confederacy was in after Appomattox the he Southern bouthern soldiers went to their homes and began again to build up their broken fortunes Viila's Villas Villa's Vil Vii la las la's s soldiers broke u up p into guerilla la bands and commenced to loot friend and foe alike Their atrocities' atrocities culminated in this last murder of nineteen Americans It was a natural conclusion and is not a surprise to anyone who knows anything about Mexican character There is just now a sudden great outcry against President President Vilson Wilson and it is just this far President Wilson from the first has not only known nothing of Mexican character but he h has s refused to learn any any- thing He took up a theory that the way to subdue a Bengal tiger was to feed him soothing syrup When hen Huerta caused the assassination assassination assassination assas assas- of the president of M Mexico xico xi- xi co except for the presidents president's and his refusal to believe the truth about th the Mexican Mexican Mexican can nature he would have set the army and navy in m motion tion Continued to Column 1 |