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teriores that public feeling in the United States ran strongly against
Mexico. Moreover, Bonillas hoped that the situation would adjust
itself. Fletcher, however, informed him that "whether it did or not
the Mexican Government, by its handling of the case, had unneces-
sarily aroused public feeling against it in this country .. .""
Fletcher correctly read the public outcry against Mexico. Newspapers
as well as Congress raged against Mexico and vehemently criticized
the indecisive Wilsonian policy. One southern newspaper wrote:
"When Mexican brigands can get $150,000 ransom for a gringo con-
sul, without half trying, is it any wonder that those greasers don't
care to work for a living!" A Texas paper lambasted United States
policy, declaring that: "The latest Lansing note to Mexico indicates
that if Mexico doesn't come to terms quickly our government may
put several hundred more typewriters in action. We will simply write
Mexico's life out of her.""
Congressional outrage, principally spearheaded by Fall, found col-
lateral support in the State Department which urged a strong policy
vis ~i vis Mexico and built a close liaison between itself and the senator.
In the morning of December 3, Fletcher called on Fall who informed
him of his sympathy with the State Department position and of his
intention to file a strong resolution which authorized or requested
that the President withdraw recognition from Carranza and sever
diplomatic relations with Mexico. That afternoon Fall kindled a blaze
designed to lead to intervention when he introduced his resolution
in the Senate.'"
The next morning, Fletcher, at the request of Lansing, attended
the meeting of the Foreign Relations Committee with the purpose of
asking that body to postpone its work on the Fall resolution so as
not to embarrass the secretary's handling of the Jenkins case. At the
same time another resolution was introduced into the Senate which
authorized the President to "employ the naval and military forces of
the United States and to take such measures as may be necessary to
accomplish the payment and satisfaction" of claims held by United
*1Fletcher to Lansing, December 2, 1919, Fletcher Papers.
"Key West Citizen and Houston Post as cited in the Bulletin of the National Asso-
ciation for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico (January 15, 19go), Fletcher
Papers.
"Memorandum written by Fletcher, December 9, 1919, Fletcher Papers; Congressional
Record, 66th Cong., 2nd Sess., Pt. 1, p. 73; Lansing to United States Embassy, Mexico
City, December 3, 1919, File 711.12/228a (RG 59, NA).
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