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Show WILSON'S IGNOBLE, UNSUCCESSFUL UNSUC-CESSFUL LITTLE WARS. 1 President Wilton tok Vera J Cruz In 1914, as we were official- I ly Informed at the time, to get j a salute for the flag, and to j I prevent the shipment of arms j Into Mexico. He did not get his j j salute. He did not prevent the j shipment of arms. Dut several J j hundred men were killed or j wounded; and then he brought 1 J the army home without achlev- j j Ing either abject. President j Wilson sent an army Into Mexico 1 In 1916, as we were Informed at the time, to get Villa "dead j or alive." They did not get him dead. They did not get him I alive. Again several hundred J men were killed and wounded, j j Again President Wilson is bring- j j Ing the army home without I j achieving his object. Of course j It Is a mere play upon words to cay that these were not "wars." They were wars, and j nothing else; Ignoble, pointless, unsuccessful little wars; but j wars. They cost millions of dot. I lars and hundreds of live, I squandered to no purpose; they I accomplished nothing; but tbey ' I were wars.-rFrom the speech of J Col. Theodore Roosevelt, dellv- j ered at Lcwlsten, Maine, In be. J half of Charles E. Hughes. |