The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-12
indulge in Bitter Comment
Upon the Concentration of
Troops on the Border.
ALSO MAKE q
FACES AT UNITED STATES
Satiric Hope That the Next Cat
TO Be Skinned Will Not Be
the British Lion.
1eased Wire to The Tribune.

| <v Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
| LONDON. March 11-FTom the con
|-ontration of American troops and war
|zbios at points contiguous to the Mexi-
LAM border Europe is drawing an ex-
|kremely broad conclusion and one that
|caunot be modified easily by diplomatic
notes. Summed up in sentence it. is
|<h;s: The United States is entering
moon a new stage Of national life on
|khe southern frontier. just as it is en-
|<erinc upon a new stage in the north
La frontier through the knox-Fleld- l.
Ina reciprocity agreement.
Drawn with competency In certain
|oarts of Europe, the deduction is dis
*inctly unwelcome IN others. The gen
scted profoundly by the plans for the
'maueuvers, no less than by the pro,
1osed revision Of hscal arrangements.
It is taken for granted that the
Washington policy in both matters as
Ia all Others will be "No step back
|rard and no sidestepping.
Paris, which views the situation more
&edately than any other capital of I'M
<ortsnce, thinks, despite the exchange
a tmessa ges for public consumption -
&atween the Taft and Diaz administra-
|ions, that the United States is acting
*dmirably in coupling with its polite
*ut inhexible demand upon Mexico for
&n irreducible minimum military pre-
%sntions quite effective and not unne-
|.essarily ostentatlous.
Nj. Leroy Beaurieu. after pointing
|1nt that the aggregate of European
|1apital invested in the "dIsturbed re-
|1nblic'i is not greatly inferior to the
|4merican investment. argues that
Washington has a stewardship for Eu-
|fops and must live up TO 1t.
Berlin Is Anti American.
la Berlin. where anti-American septi-
|n,ent is expressed with more candor
than anywhere else on this side, the
|brogramme of the American 'Jingoes
denounced with great virulence
|hy Spokesman of the agrarian and con
nryative factions. Both are smartlng
ondcr economic grievances, the latest
M which is the potash difficulty, and
| both were bitterly chagriped at the
ieterminatlon OF Mr.. Taft TO fortify
BE Panama canal, not to mention the
If-repeated London insinuation that
is Berlin. rather than Toxic, against
rhich the White House at Washington
! y taking thought for the morrow,
|. Mr., Taft 5 Mexican policy, accord
|HE 10 the German commentator who
nes furtherest into the realm Of ir
| |icsponsible conjecture. shows 1.-THE hol
1o8ness Of the old pretense of the Mon
| Fpe doctrine TO be safeguard for the
ATTN American republics TO the south
| rtcw that ali the world sees Taft using
|Nonree's mantle TO cover fishing ex
|,edition in troubled waters.
| apparently willing to scatter fire
Eands rccklessly, another Berlin agi
ator declares that in ten years, o.
FsFen in five. Mexico viii have beer
FfCubanlzed into 4 docile Yankee sat
|itpy."
f Considerablc harm might be done tc
he international friendships by pro
Fpbged publication Of interviews Of thl'
h Sore Spots in London.
In london. where German criticism
n HAmerican methods has rather NOR
nee of late than is usual. the soil 70
% seed OF Misrepresentation of Nh
Eft's Mexican plans was prepared b,
amp Clark IS famous reference t.
madam annexation.
Embassador Brycc's disclaimer o
~ probability that the Pan q merical
Hppaganda Of the United States vii
Neceed either in the Dominion o
&nada or in the Latin-American re
Hbics does not satisfy the averag
yHgllshman,
Under the caption "Champ. CbamT
lamp. the Boys Are Marching
over writer hits off the suspicious 0
man-in-thestre by saying tina
~ one knows better than Uncle Sal
pr to skin cat, or how many way
0erc are Of performing the oper'
Vn-the Hawaiian way, the Alaskan
|diHe philippine way, the Panama wa,
~ Cuban way, the Honduras way, an
X Qther ways the plausible old gentl