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Show uu MORMONS HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED Editor Standard This big talk of "Intervention" In Mexico is all rot. It Is beneath the dignity of the United States to talk of intervention in a country whero captives are taken in battle and peaceful citizens captured are killed after surrender. What should have been done long ago was to stop all killing or Americans Ameri-cans and destruction of Americau property at once, without any tender I regard as to what Mexico would say or feel. The situation is cxtromely delicate, deli-cate, and most persons do not understand un-derstand it,' said Senator Sutherland. Suther-land. "American colonlstB in Mexico are distributed over vari-' vari-' ous sections of that country. Unless Un-less the administration proceeded carefully there would be war. If wo sent our troops into Mexico railroads would be destroyed and obstacles placed In the wa so that It would take a long tlmo to get tho soldiers to a point where the. would be of 3orlce to tho colonists. Everything considered, I believe that the administration has dealt properly with a situation of extreme delicacy." Deseret News. Every rallioad bridge in Mexico has been destroyed and all the railroads there are out of commission and all railroad properly is being destroyed rapidly, so everyone knows who investigates in-vestigates the situation in Mexico. Sutherland's talk that the "railroad1; would be destroyed" fools no one. It Is a part of Taft's policy to fool the peo;le and presume upon their ignorance. ignor-ance. It is true that Americans, thousands of them, were "distributed over various vari-ous sections of that country," but they have been driven out, cleaned out, and their property destroyed, Sutherland may try to hush It up fo as not "to hurt the party," or Taft's chances. If President Taft wants war with Mexico he is doing the right thing o make It. Common sense shows that. Many millions of dollars in claims against Mexico aro filed In tho state department at Washington, D. C. These constantly increasing claims Mexico cannot pay in her impoverished impoverish-ed condition. When the United Stales demands payment of these claims Mexico, having uothing to pay with, will have to give up a sllco of her territory That Is exactly what Taft is working for.l Somebody has put up all the big aims needed to supply Madero In hia revolution against Diaz and Is putting up now to supply the present revolution revolu-tion with arms, ammunition and supplies, sup-plies, It costs a lot to supply an army and some ono Is doing this. It is dono by a ring who have an object in iew " In the meantime, the loss of lives and property of Mormon colonists and other Americans must be laid at tho door of Taft, who could stop the trouble trou-ble at once If he would. The ""tato department" lenows the feet that millions of dollars worth of English and German property in Mexico Mex-ico has been destroyed and that iuan English and German citizens thero have been killed. There Is no doubt of this. Those nations are holding off because be-cause I hey expect the United States to handle the situation. If things go too far, Taft's "delicacy" will not prevent pre-vent those English and German governments gov-ernments from landing troops on Mexican soil to protect their citizens, just as the United States has dono recently in Central America, whero 800 United States marines were landed land-ed to protect American citizens there When English or German troops land on Mexican soil and we have the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine to enforce, what will become be-come of Taft's "delicacy?" There will bo hell to iirv. It Is a disgrace that the United ctates does not protect American citizens cit-izens in Mexico. No one Is fooled by this "delicacy." There Is a policy behind be-hind IL And this policy Is cruel to the Mormon colonists and other Americans, Am-ericans, and very dangerous In view of complications with England and Germany. Ger-many. Roosevelt Is not famed for such 'delicacy' as Sutherland champions. Roosevelt, "the friend of Utah," would have stopped this Mexican trouble long ago. Ah It is now all Mexicans view the United States with contempt. After election Taft with his "delicacy" "deli-cacy" will be a thing of the past, and the "big stick" of Roosevelt will protect pro-tect the colonists In Mexico. (Signed.) Y. E. Eldredge. Pangultch, Utah. |