Our Mexican muddle . hed and killed some of our best officersand a number of troopers. But Vera Cruz was not occupied for the purpose of pro-curing reparation from Huerta. Political Washington nevercompelled the old warrior to do its bidding in any way. VeraCruz was occupied for one purpose only, viz.: to prevent the land-ing of arms and ammunition which was consigned to Huerta—and the arms WERE landed, as already stated—at Puerta, Mexico. Nor is it a fact that Huertas party was guilty of outrages onAmericans—until Mr. Wilson invited such action by occupyingVera Cruz and meddling at Tampico. H
Our Mexican muddle . hed and killed some of our best officersand a number of troopers. But Vera Cruz was not occupied for the purpose of pro-curing reparation from Huerta. Political Washington nevercompelled the old warrior to do its bidding in any way. VeraCruz was occupied for one purpose only, viz.: to prevent the land-ing of arms and ammunition which was consigned to Huerta—and the arms WERE landed, as already stated—at Puerta, Mexico. Nor is it a fact that Huertas party was guilty of outrages onAmericans—until Mr. Wilson invited such action by occupyingVera Cruz and meddling at Tampico. Had Huerta been recog-nized all Americans would have been protected, and, most likely,all would still be engaged in uninterrupted business in Mexico. But Mr. Wilson did favor, and continues to favor the fac-tions which slaughtered uncounted Americans. Are we so indiffer-ent to these matters that we propose to condone each and everyoffense ? SECTION III PREDICTIONS —THE PRESIDENTS ACCEPTANCE—COMMENT AND FINIS. CHAPTER XX MR. WILSONS SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE AND COM-MENTS THEREON. ADDED FALLACIES. THEPRESIDENT ENDEAVORS TO DEFEND HIS ERRORSBY DEFENDING THE ACTS OF THE BANDITTI OFMEXICO. CLOSING CHAPTER WITH PREDICTIONSFOR THE NEAR FUTURE. We now approach the Finis—the Finale—the Ul-timo: We are permitted to view, to understand and to analyzeMr. Wilson from a different angle—one of many—for he is emi-nently capable of glossing over every fault and in making it appearthat his errors should be condoned, let us say, on the ground that,as he is the unapproachable master of pretty sentiment, and ofspecious sophistry (as well as fulsome excuse), then be it that weaccept his lavish English as the equivalent of the performance ofdeeds, and that we forget his inconsistencies and every evil result-ing, either from lack of wisdom, of true diplomacy, or from lackof action, or of action too precipitate. We must laud the man, O Americans, for what he has not done,and for what, as h
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