Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — WILSON KISSED THE HAND RED WITH AMERICAN BLOOD. [ARTICLE]

WILSON KISSED THE HAND RED WITH AMERICAN BLOOD.

• President Wilson explicitly ■ shows that the Carranzlstas, not • once, but repeatedly, made at- • tacks on American towns and • killed* American citizens and mu- > tilated them in September, 1915. • Yet on Qct. 19, 1915, less than a > month later, this same President • Wilson, through his same secre- • tary of state, formally announc- . ed to Carransa’a agent that it ■ was his "pleasure” to take the • opportunity “of extending rec- ’ ognltion. to lEb de facto govern- • ment of Mexico of which Gen- • eral Venustlano Carranza is the > chief executive.” President Wil- • son thus recognized the govem- > ment whUJi, his own secretary of • state declares, had been less 1 than a month previously engaged « in repeated assaults upon Amerl- ■ cans and in the invasion of Amer- > lean soil, the government at • whose head was General Car- • ranza, who, less than two months > previously, on Aug. 2, 1915, had « contemptuously refused to pay • any heed to any representations • of President Wilson on behalf of • mediation, saying that “under no • consideration would I permit In- • terference in the internal affairs ■ of Mexico.” President Wilson . did not merely kiss the hand • that slapped him in the face. He • kissed that hand when it was « red with the blood of American • men, women and children who • had been murdered and mutilat- • ed with, as President Wilson, , through his secretary of state, • says, “ruthless brutality."-From ■ the Speech of Colonel Theodore • Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, • Me., in behalf of Charles E. i Hughes. I— _