The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1911-03-24

get along without the great news
papers There is no agency or
Organization among men that dis
seminates so vast an amount Of
important and useful informa-
ton for the intellectual and NOR
al training of mankind This
praise is Spontaneous. sincere and
hearty, but those who carry mi-
croseopes to discover defects in
all' mundane affairs may take com
fort 10 their souls when ! tell
them ! have discovered a fly il
the precious ointment, a cock
roach ~ the turtle soup Ny
great newspapers use scare
headlines News that must be
sensational TO have the proper
flavor II is the Worcestershire
sauce on the fish Business is
business. Papers are printed 10
sell and the larger the number
the better. Our great papers EN-
ploy a vast number of bright re-
porters TO record al the happen
ings Of our restless. feverlsh
world. Fights. homicides, marli-
ages. engagements, Opponents,
cabinet sessions, movements OF
the army and navy II is hard to
escape from the camera fiend-
impossible 20 escape from the re-
porter. I'm his breasts vests peck
ct he carries half a dozen sharp
fabers. He is out for news, and
at his approach, all rules must be
set aside, all doors must be open,
men and women must speak, or if
they wont speak. he reads their
minds and fills his note book in
spite of them. Il
The Honduras matter WIS beat
en- TO FRAGILE, Intervention was
threatened, but nothing came Of
it. When the Madero trouble
sprang up in Mexico, followed by
general guerilla war, the ques-
ton of neutrality between the L.
S. and Mexico received due at
tention. but when our government
ordered twenty thousand troops
moved to San Antonio for ma
neuvers on the Mexican frontier,
we all turned a fit Maneuver
your dear old grandmother-this
means intervention Uncle Sam
is going TO take in Mexico. Have
not Great Britain and Germany
told Uncle Sam that he must in
tervene, or they wouldY Of
course they have. This kind of
comment knows how hard it is
for people to believe what they
do not believe nor wish TO.
President Diaz is satisfied with
the assurances of President Taft,
but the whole world is excited
over the situation.
As the Monroe Doctrine comes
TO the front oftener than any 9th
err international question, ] viii
give the exact words used by
President Monroe in message
dated Deep, 1923, he declared to
be the policy of this government,
not to interfere with the affairs
of Europe, and asserting that
The American Continent. by the
free and independent condition
which they have assumed and
maintain, are henceforth not TO
be considered as subjects for fu-
ture colonization by any Euro
pean power"
will relate the hest test that
has ever been given Of our appli-
cation of the Monroe Doctrine.
I'm 1867 Ferdinand Maximilian
Joseph Archduke of Austria,
brother of Francis Joseph, then
and now emperor of Austria was
proclaimed emperor Of Mexico by
the French Government, but when
the French learned that Mexico
was assisted by this government
they forsook Maximilian, hisforce
was defeated. and he was taken
prisoner and executed by the
Mexican government.
In the British trouble with Ven
zuela the strict rule of Monroe
Doctrine was relaxed a little. |
Venzutla clearly intended 20
swindle the British government |
out of large indebtedness, and