ARMS FROM U. S. KILL AMERICANS Mexicans Getting Guns and Ammunitions, Senator Borah Says, Despite Embargo Washington. Jul:-- 14. American' bullets are used against American sol diers seeking to preserve order in Mex ico by the Carranzistas and ViUistas with the "connivance and consent" of the Wilson administration. This was, the statement made by Senator Wil liam E. Borah, ot Idaho, who was in formed of the condition in Mexico by an American citizen in a position to know the facts. M Despite the announcement of the J State Department that an embargo has been placed on the shipment of arms | into Mexico since the Columbus raid and the attack on American soldiers, at Carrizal, it is said that all the am munitions and arms Mexico can buy being sent into the stricken republic by American manufacturers. The killing of American citizens and soldiers is attributed by Senator Bor ah directly to the policy of this Ad ministration in not placing an abso lute embargo on the supplies of war. Senator Borah said, in an informal discussion of conditions before he consented to being quoted, that the American soldiers on the border were vigorously protesting against the con tinuation of the policy which make it • possible for Americans to be killed' while certain American manufacturers i reap a heavy profit from the sale of ammunition and arms. Will Bring Cp Issue in Senate Senator Borah has collected definite j information as to the situation. He I has evidence from the men who have j suffered from the' use of American j bullets and is prepared to bring the issue squarely home to the American I public and the Administration in a speech in the Senate very soon. The President has full power to lay an embargo on arms, but apparently, said the Senator, has seen best not to use' the power conferred upon him. at a time most necessary for the safety of j American citizens. "Do you think there should be an embargo?" the Senator was asked. "I certainly do, and nearly every American who has studied the Mexi- j can problem thinks the same," he re- j plied. "The President said in his De- j troit speech. 'I will not serve the am-; bition of those gentlemen, but I will; try to serve the Americans, in so far as intercourse with Mexico is concern- j ed, by trying to serve Mexico itself.' J What does that mean? "In March. 1912, Congress gave full power to the President to lay an em- j l argo on arms and munitions of war I going into Mexico. President Taft laid the embargo. President Wilson 1 in his address to Congress August 27. 3913, indorsed this policy as the best practice and custom of nations and said he would continue it. He after ward changed his mind and took oft the embargo in order to favor Villa, I with whom at that time we were co- ■ operating. We ought to go back to! our first policy and adhere to it with out change. "On March 19. 1916. Villa attacked Columbus. N. M., and within the next week Pershing's expedition entered Mexico in pursuit of Villa, whom we! were to ha'fe dead or alive. Large Munitions Shipments "On March IS a Ward Line steamer from New York landed in the port of Vera Cruz with 1,350,000 rounds of soft-nosed cartridges to be delivered to Carranza. together with other mu nitions of war. "On April 1 thereafter another Ward Line steamer from New York _ unloaded at Vera Cruz 1,350,000 * rounds of soft-nosed cartridges and other munitions or war for Carranza. "On May 13 thereafter another ship ment of war munitions was unloaded at Vera Cruz for Carranza. Between that time and the first of June another shipment of arms was unloaded at Vera Cruz for Carranza. During all of this time, and even later, large ship-1 ments of munitions of war havf, by' permission of American authorities, gone into Mexico over the border, j These shipments were all permitted after the massacres of Santa Ysabel, Columbus and Glenn Springs and af ter the Government had full knowl-1 edge, according to the express lan guage of the Lansing note, of the treachery and duplicity of Carranza. j Here is the language of the note after 1 reciting all the atrocities and outrages with which we are more or less famil iar: " 'I am reluctant to be forced to the conclusion that the de facto povern ment, in spite of the crimes commit- 1 ted and the sinister designs of Villa and his followers, did not and does not now intend or desire that these out- j laws should be captured, destroved or 1 dispersed by American troops or at the request of this Government by the Mexican troops.' No Reliance in Carranza "But even if Carranza could be re lied upon not to use the arms against us—and every sensible man knows he cannot—still the armed banditti of Carranza of to-day may be the follow ers of Villa to-morrow. The press dis patches of this morning state that 2,000 Carranza soldiers have revolted and joined Villa. They are all armed with American arms and supplied with American munitions of war by the connivance and consent of this gov ernment. "Let us suppose, further, that these arms would not be used against our own soldiers and against our own citi zens. Still we know that for two years the bandit soldiers have robbed and looted from the starving Mexicans, every usable form of property for the I purpose of exchanging it for munitions of war, which are being supplied to them by the consent of our govern ment. e have known for two years that all the arms and ammunition with which the Mexicans are murdering one another and with which they have, murdered and assassinated our own | people have been furnished by Ameri- | can manufacturing establishments! with the consent of our government. "There is a plan now, It is said to furnish money to Mexican bandits 1 particularly Carranza, if he lasts long enough to receive it. Unless our gov ernment itself sees to the application of this money, does any one assume that it will serve the Mexican people that it will in any way help the poor t and famished masses of Mexico'l Eighty-five cents of every dollar which we furnish to Carranza will be return- ' ed here to buy arms and ammunition We talk humanity and we practice in humanity. We assert we are lovers of! m peace and we connive at and sustain yihuman and barbarous war by ex- i changing arms for the property looted from a starving people. Arms Still Go in# In "It has been asserted I understand that there has been a check put upon the supply of arms to Mexico Ido not assume that this assertion is not made in good faith but I do say that it is a very slight check indeed; arms and ammunition of every kind are still going into Mexico. I have been fur nished the facts in a way I cannot doubt. This much we know; that every bullet that plows its way through the vitals of an Am«rican citizen on the border of an American soldier will have been furnished to the assailants FRIDAY EVENING, 1871 1916 BISI.L— IT)OI—T'.XITED SATURDAY HOURS. » A. M. TO » P. M. HARRISBVRG. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1816. FOUNDED 1871 We're off to-day on our Annual Picnic. We have gone to Good Hope Mill to have a day of freedom from busin ess. We expect to return in a state of physical, mental and social betterment; and to have our people and our store all the mxrre able to attend to your wants satisfactorily.- Back at Our Posts To-morrow and Ready Cool and Pretty— ! These Summer Wash Skirts f _ I c ~ hi y\ Summer Straws to Z&rXZZ 1 ; Go Out at Little Prices Jp ®l\ jSEfjaSst^^/ J I I ' ! lr>r delightful wash Wc could truthfully call this the final clearance for only this an- Ja \ 1/I I|\\ Striking arC great favor. Untrimmed Hats Reduced to 98c, $1.49 and $1.98 We have some very special values to offer. 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"Every guardsman who falls a victim to Mexican treachery, and it is just as likely to be at the hands of the Car ranzistas as the Vlllistas will carry back to his friends and family the un mistakable evidence of American en terprise by the consent of our govern-1 ment. In view of conditions which | I prevail in Mexico, and have ever since | IHuerta was driven out, there can be! 1 no possible justification for furnishing j munitions of war to those people. It is inhuman and barbarous to the last dogree. It convicts us of insincerity and hypocrisy." A MISUNDERSTANDING EASILY CONDONED "Not long ago," saiii a certain pas j tor, "I preached in a church in Vir : Kinla. and in the congregation was an iaged colored 'mammy,' picturesque In BARRISBURG TEJJRGRAPH bandana, and pinafore. In my dis course I remarked that the commen tators did not agree with me. Pres ently this 'mammy' arose and quietly slipped out of church. After the ser vice I found her standing outside the door with a bag in her hand, and this she presented to me. saying. 'I heard yo' say de common 'taters don' agree wid yo', an' I hurried home to git yo' some sweet Virglnny yams.' " .The Christian Herald. BANK CALL, FOR *40,000.000 Washington, D. C., July 14.—With- I drawal of 140,000,0000 of the Treas- ,: ury's deposits in the Federal Reserve j banks was ordered to-day by Secretary McAdoo. Treasury officials said the action was : in the usual course of business the i enormous total of the withdrawal be ing due to the fact that heavy deposits made by the Internal revenue collectors, In the closing days of the fiscal year, had brought the Treasury's balance in I JULY 14, 1916. the banks to well above H00,000.000. | Part of the $40,000,000 will be taken from each of the 12 banks. BI'RI-ESOV* CANOE I'PSET Wa shlngrton, July 14.—1t leaked out yesterday that Postmaster General Bur- CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought I leson and a party of officials from | his department capsized In the Poto mac rapids last Sunday while fishing from a canoe. They were rescued af ter being- swept down stream a short distance. Boars the - 3
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