The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-11

to be gentle aud sweet, 80 as to suit
everybody. We can only Judge what
oDr Democratic friends will really do to
the tariff by bills they passed at the
, last session, and that, as the colloquial
phrase is, will be "a plenty. -
Mr.. President has your attitude tow.
ard Mexico and intervention changed 80
"Not in the Slightest said the
President, emphatically, thereby setting
at rest rumors of American interference
in the affairs of the southern republic
which have swept through the country
at intervals whenever conditions in
Mexico have undergone a slight change.
The Presidents attitude today is pre-
eisely what it was on August /, 1912,
when in accepting the nomination be
said:-
Still Firm Against Intervention in
Mexico.
"Our Mexican neighbor on the south
has been disturbed by two revolutions,
and these have necessarily brought q
strain upon our relations because Of the
losses sustained by American citizens,
both in property and in life, due to the
lawlessness which could not be prevent.
ed under conditions of civil war. The
pressure for Intervention at times has
been great, and grounds upon which, il
is said, we might have interviewed, have
been urged upon us, but this administra.
tion has been conscious that one hos.
tile step in Intervention and the passing
| of the border by one regiment of troops
would mean war with Mexico, the ex.
penditure of hundreds of millions
dollars, the loss of thousands of lives in
the tranquilization of that country, with
all the subsequent problems that would
arise as to its disposition after we found
| ourselves in complete armed possession
SIN order to avoid the plain conse
quences it seemed the course of patriot
| Sun and of wisdom to subject ourselves
and our citizens to some degree of suf
| tering and Inconvenience and to pass
over with a strong protest and claim
for damages even those injuries inflicted
on our peaceful citizens in our own
territory along the border by flying bul
lets in engagements between the govern
mental and the revolutionary forces OF
the Mexican side.
| cit is easy to arouse popular indig
nation over an instance of this charac
ter. 1t is easy to take advantage of il
for the purpose of justifying aggressive
action, and it is easy to cultivate politi
cal support and popularity by warlikt
and truculent policy, but with the famil
iarity that we have had in the carrying
on of such war in the Philippines and
in Cuba, no one with sense of respon
sibility to the American people would
involve them in the almost amending
burden and thankless task of enforcing
peace upon these fifteen millions of PEG
pie fighting among themselves, wher
they would necessarily all turn against
us Mt the first manifestation of our pur
pose to intervene. ] am very sure that
the course of self-restraint that the ad
ministration has pursued in respect tt
Mexico will vindicate itself in the page,
of history
Views Unchanged on Coastwise Ship
ping in the Canal.
Nor has the Presidents attitud,
changed on the rights of the United
States government with respect tt
American coastwise shipping .goinl
through the Panama Canal. The Pres
ident stands exactly where he stood
when the agitation abroad started thi
summer. He went into the matter care
fully two years ago, and has fount
nothing since to warrant a change O.
opinion,