Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1914 — SENATOR FALL’S LIST. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR FALL’S LIST.

There should be no secrecy concerning the fate of Americans in .Mexico, but if we are to have statements on the subject they should be fully authenticated, should he muah more explicit than those of Senator Fall and should give to the public a clear idea of the responsibilities involved, of the difference between easels, of the bearing of governmental policies upon the facts.

Wilson became president March 4,1913. A very large percentage of the reported murders of and outrages upon Americans occurred before that date. Some of them occured nearly two years before. Evidently they cannot be connected in any way with a policy that was formally announced little more than six months ago.

hen ( we come to the nature of the crimes we are thrown at once into great confusion. Certain persons are said to have been killed by stray bullets. Certain others fell during the bombardment of the City of Mexico at the time of the overthrow of Madero in February, 1913. Others, apparently, were the victims of thugs—that is, they were killed as people are killed in Chicago every year in numbers exceeding the entire list of Mexican outrages upon Americans.

Senator Fall gives us no new revelation of our responsibilities, but leaves us where we were. What there is of immediate sensational interest in his recapitulation has been anticipated in the press dispatches on the Benton and Vergara cases.—-Chicago Record-Her-ald.