Show Smoots Smoot's Blind Had Side Seeking to dId Senator I m a position t quit ati ii lowly me 01 the Smoot newspaper finds It necessary to mISrepresent the ent of of th the States President President Wilson ard d I hIS wished to go to tower wi war merely for the of senor senor Hureta Humus he writes President Wilson and his councilors d did III not wish to go towar to tomar war mar at all but they did wish to obtain reparation from n those who had insulted our ir nag flag and the theun um form farm of our sailors They did not wish to punish the Mexican people for the crime arms of an assasSin Assassin as- as Ase sassin and a tyrant but they did wish to secure such reparation from the de facto government in inthe MexIco City as would convince the Mexican people that the American flag cou could Id not be m in in suited with Impurity impunity Once the MexICan people are convinced that our flag must not be Insult Insult- eil ed they will of course be con can they cannot make light of the lives and property of Americans The foregoing statement by the Smoot editor d or is a of a piece with Smoot Smoots s own statement that the flag had not been insulted that the dispute was one m merely about the number of guns gum and the form and method of aali salute Senator Smoot misrepresented the Issue ane hs his editor reseats re- re seats senta the president If Smoots Smoot's charge IS true then we weare are am not justified m in going to war with the de facto government in 10 MexICo City nor IS the war wr If we are carrying it on sIty ley for the chastisement If of nor Hureta tn The defender of Smoot only makes matters worse for r both tj of f them In his disloyalty Senator Smoot sought to make it appear that the presIdent dent of the United States Mates was ready to sacrifice the lives of American selling sailors and soldie withers soldiers ina m in ma a mere dispute about the the i. i number num num- ber her of guns na and the form and method of salute lute His defender defend defend- er er carrying out at t the same me t idea insists that we have gone to v war merely Io to back up the spite spite of Woodroe Wilson against ga t Senor Hureta This is the hardened blind insolent insolent in- in solent disloyalty against which The Tribune raises r its vOice in 10 prote Suit Lake Tribune une |