Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Blame Rest on Roosevelt. [ARTICLE]

Blame Rest on Roosevelt.

The chickens do certainly come home to roost, in national as well as in individual affairs. But for Mr. Roosevelt’s spoliation of Panama, but for the shock that he gave to Spanish American confidence in our integrity, there would be no such fanatical jealousy and suspicion on the part of Mexico as we see today and there would be no doubt of our ultimate motives, whatever we might think it necessary to do. A European warship might today land troops iih Mexico with less danger of a conflagration than was caused by the dozen American soldiers who carelessly strolled across the bridge at El Paso. American interests of incalculable magnitude are now at stake in Mexico and the burden of our responsibility for those Interests has been rendered doubly grievous by the action of Mr. Roosevelt, who first committed an act of piracy in the name of the American people and then boasted of it before the world.