Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — WILSON’S IGNOBLE, UNSUCCESSFUL LITTLE WARS. [ARTICLE]

WILSON’S IGNOBLE, UNSUCCESSFUL LITTLE WARS.

4 * 4. President Wilson took Vera i* 4 Crux in 1914, as we were official- 4 4 ly informed at the time, to get 4 4 a salute for the flag and to pre- 4 4* vent the shipment of arms into 4* 4 Mexico. He did not get his sa- 4 4. lute. He did not prevent the 4 4 shipment of arms. But several 4 4> hundred men were killed or 4 4 wounded, and then he brought 4* 4 the army home without achiev- 4* 4* ing either object. President 4* 4 Wilson sent an army into Mex- 4 4 ico in 1916, as we were informed 4 4 at the time, to get Villa “dead 4 4- or alive." They did not get him 4 4 dead. They did not get him 4* 4* alive. Again several hundred 4 4- men were killed and wounded. 4 4- Again President Wilson is bring- 4 4- i,ng the army home without 4 4 achieving his object. Of course 4 4» it is a mere play upon words "4* 4. to say that these were not 4 4. "wars." They were wars and 4 4 nothing else— ignoble, pointless, 4 4* unsuccessful ilittle wars, but 4 4- wars. They cost millions of dol- 4 4> lars and hundreds of lives, 4 4 squandered to no purpose. They 4 4 accomplished nothing, but they 4 4 were wars.—From the Speech of 4 4 Colonel Theodore! Roosevelt, De- 4 4 livered at Lewiston, Me., in Bo- 4 4 half of Charles E. Hughes. 4 + 44.4.4.4.4.4.4.4.444444444