Arizona republican., 1911-05-10
Intervention Not a New Proposition.

MaQero'S sudden and poorly eX- plained assault against the city of Jaurez immediately following the granting Of all his demands and of his felicitation of President Diaz, and the renewal of hostilities on an appar- ently wider scale than ever have so upset the calculations of all observ- CTS that it has become useless to ex- pect peace until it shall have been definitely established.
 Meanwhile. notwithstanding the ex- treme reluctance of President Taft and of congress to intervene, it is clear that intervention is at least within the possibilities if the war continues much longer.
 And. while the doctrine of "neu- trality and nOn-intervention" has al- ways been a distinguishing feature of American relations with other coun- tries, it is worth while to remember that our government has always in sisted that this doctrine would not prevent the protection of Americans and American interests abroad when ever intervention should become the only remedy. The three volumes of Wharton's Digest of United States International Law contain numerous citations of the exceptions laid down by our presidents and secretaries of state in their discussions of the settled policy of neutrality and non- intervention. Indeed, these volumes show that in the earlier days our government was much less heedful of the feelings of foreign peoples than is the government of the present day With the coming of closer and swifter communication. and possibly because We have grown more careful not to offend since we have grown so power ful, there has developed at Washing ton a more punctilious regard for the sensibilities of other nations. Ger tainly the "shirtsleeve diplomacy of earlier times was more bluntly care less about giving offense than MT. Taft is showing himself in his present dealings with Mexico.
 No one of our later presidents, for example. would dream of expressing himself so frankly as did President Taylor in 1S49 in his message to congress in which he stated his un- qualified sympathy with the defeated patriots of Hungary:
 During the late conflict between Austria and Hungary, there seemed a prospect that the latter might become an independent nation. However faint that prospect at the time appeared. I thought it my duty, in accordance with the general sentiment of the American people. who deeply sympathized with the Magyar patriots. to stand pre- pared, upon the contingency of the establishment by her of a permanent government. to be the first to wei come independent Hungary into the family of nations For this purpose l invested an agent, then in Europe, with power to declare our willingness promptly to recognize her indepen- dence in the event of her ability to sustain it. The powerful intervention of Russia in the contest eXtinguished the hopes of the struggling Magyars. The United States did not at any time interfere in the contest; but the feelings of the nation were strongly enlisted in the cause, and by the suf ferings of q brave people, who had made a gallant though unsuccessful effort to be free"
 These expressions brought forth a vigorous protest from the Austrian government, which was presented to Daniel Webster, then secretary of state after the death of President Taylor MT. Webster did not try to apologize for the American govern ment on the ground that "Old Rough and Ready" habitually used blunt lan- guage. In a letter to the Austrian minister which at once became a clas- sic, he virtually told Austria that it was not her business to concern herself with what an American pres ident said to an American congress.
 Andrew Jackson, in his seventh message to congress, in a general dis cussion of the unsettled conditions in Latin American countries and of the injuries suffered by Americans, said:
 Unfortunately, many of the nations of this hemisphere are still self-tOr tured by domestic dissensions. Revol- ution succeeds revolution; injuries are committed upon foreigners engaged in lawful pursuits. If this un- happy condition of things continues much longer, other nations will be un- der the painful necessity of deciding whether justice to their suffering citi- zens does not require a prompt redress of injuries by their own power. with