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Show THE CITIZEN 6 MASK TORN OFF MEXICAN POLICY m who heard the powerful speech of J. Reuben Clark, jr., Salt Lake theatre, on Some Phases of the Mexican he Policy, were quite prepared for his logical conclusion when declared that Mexico must be cleaned up. It was with amazement that the audience saw the whole fantastic structure of Wilsonian policy toppled over by a simple recital of the facts, beginning with the closing days of the Taft administration and tracing the present administrations policies through their pitiful vacillations. As the recital of facts continued the audience must have wondered how the truth was suppressed or disguised so long. They must have asked themselves what was the matter with the news sources during the various crisis. For example, the Tampico incident, which caused our first foray into Mexico, was shown not to have justified the conduct of Admiral famous Mayo, who was the one who made the first demand for the salute the flag reparation. The difficulty arose out of the arrest of some of Admiral Mayos men. The Huertista official in command at Tampico, as soon as he heard of the arrest, released the men and expressed regret. Quite obviously it was a mistake, but the American admiral chose to regard it as a capital affront anc. demanded the salute to the flag. Then came the order from Washington instructing Mayo to take his ships out of the harbor. Meantime his demands had aroused the populace to fury and when the American vessels sailed away mobs were besieging American men, women and 'children who had taken refuge in a large building. It became necessary for the Americans to ask the protection of the British and German commanders in the harbor. The British commander, according to one report, said that he had only room commander enough for those who were on his ship. The German sent word that he was ready to take the Americans out of Tampico immediately. The mob raged around the refuge while Admiral Mayos ships idled at anchor outside the harbor. Suddenly those within the builddoors ing sensed a lull in the attack. There came a knock at the and the German commander, with his aides, entered and announced that he would take the Americans on board his ships. He had bomquickly obtained a cessation of hostilities by threatening to bard the town if a single American were injured. The British commander did all he could to help the German in the rescue and the result was that the refugees were taken aboard the foreign ships. This was the first instance, and one of the most glaring instances, of the administrations failure to protect American lives and interests. The speaker demonstrated that through all the Americans changes of policy the administration had failed to give the the protection to which they were entitled under the settled rules of international law. The murders, rapes, tortures, robberies and kidascribed nappings in which Americans have been the victims were administraby the speaker to the weakness and incompetency of the tion in dealing with each crisis. Mr. Clark touched but lightly on the appalling atrocities. He were gave only one or two instances out of hundreds, but these sufficient to show in what a hell some Americans and thousands of Mexican women have been compelled to live aye and to die. The speaker, brought forcibly to the minds of his hearers the need of a Mexican policy looking to intervention. He did not suggest the form of intervention, but in view of the fact that the administration has sponsored intervention twice and accomplished nothing, the inference was that the next time the United State.; intervenes it must not stop until it has finished its task. By allowing munitions to pour into Mexico the administration has made incessant warfare possible and easy. If our troops should invade the country they would find the Mexicans of every faction well supplied with rifles and cartridges. The best plan would be to establish a blockade by land and sea for three or four months while the Mexicans expended their THOSE ammunition and exhausted other military supplies. Then we could send in columns of soldiers and marines from' all directions and mop up the country with comparatively small losses. YEARNINGS OF HERBERT HOOVER Herbert Hoover can say will be without interest for all of us are interested in our foreign allies. Moreover, Herbert is a good fellow, as we have often remarked, and being the most advertised person in the world, barring neither Charley Chaplin nor Mary Pickford, he is a whole scenario in himself. When he smiles at us from the pages of a magazine he looks so young and fresh and handsome that we cannot but fetl that he is our most popular political matinee idol. But as a candidate for President But, of course, Herbert is not a 'candidate for anything. He keeps, writing letters to tell us how he yearns to remain a private citizen. But he is in a terrible dilemma. He doesnt know whether he should yearn to be an American citizen or a citizen of Unitania, the same being a united Britannia and America. It is well known that I was a progressive Republican before the war and I think rightly, a nonpartisan during my war service, he writes. It is an astonishing statement to some of us who have watched the soaring of Herbert ever since he appeared above the foggy skyline of dear old London. That was early in the European war, but not before the war. Before the war Herbert was not well known; that NOTHING United States, how, then, could his political views be well known ? Why does Herbert insist so much on his political staths if he is not seeking office? Why does he continue to write letters gently thrusting aside the crown offered him by ladies and gentlemen from Los Angeles to the Willard hotel in Washington, or is it the Shore-hawhere Mr. Herbert Hoover of London is making his brief and flattering stay in our midst ? I would not be myself, he writes, if I started out on a path of to obtain any office. Take that, Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden, Hiram Johnson, William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Doth it require a spirit from the misty deeps of the Thames embankment to tell us this ? Shall we allow a proud Britisher to lecture us so? Shall we submit tamely while Englands unofficial ambassador calls our greatest men It is too much. Watson, m self-seeki- ng self-seeker- s? the needle- - sis Most of these spiritualistic communications are merely ghost stories. sc A Madrid paper says Spaniards should leave Americans severely alone because the United States never did anything for them except steal their colonies. 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