The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-09
ACUTE MEXICAN SITUATION.

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ACUTE MEXICAN SITUATION.
1t is difficult TO understand the
sensational news that comes from Mex.
leo at the present time otherwise than
under the suspicion that good deal
of it is manufactured for effect. and
10 force Intervention by the United
States. For Il long time il has been
evidently the purpose of the insurrcctos
/ TO do some act that would compel the
United States to cross the border with
an armed force. so that these insurrcctos
could reinstatc themselves with the
Government OF Mexico with an offer
| to Join in resistance to the invasion
and aggression of the United States. In
all this, of course, the Mexican insur
rcctos are thoroughly dishonest of pur
pose and trcacherous of inclination.
1t has been the tenor of the dispatches
for the past month ore more. that the
insurrectiou was on its last legs. But
now all at once VIC have news Of a
blaze OF rebellion all through the coun
co and his lieutenants with their re-
spective separate bands in tho north.
What to do is the big question.
Suggestions Of peaceful invasion are
made, which would mean, on the ono
hand, that the United States would
have a free hand in following up into
Mexico any band that trespassed upon
our side of the border, either by an
act of war or by theft. On the other
hand, Mexico would be given the right
to send her troops through United
States territory Gas indeed application
is reported TO have been made TO do)
so as to get at any rebel bands that
might he reported as rading, plunder-
ing. or Staying.
IT is manifest proposition that ii
both the United States forces and the
Mexican Federal forces should cooper
ate. there would speedily be made an
end Of the brigaudage in Mexico. So
far as we can sec, this is the best way
out Of it, and there is not lacking a
precedent for this, since that was cX-
actly the agreement arrived at with
Mexico during the times of the muir
derous Apache raids.
The Tribune has been firm from the
first against any proposition to inter
vene in n hostile way in Mexican af
| fairs. We hold that if there ever was
time for such Intervention it was
while Diaz was President. If the
United States could at that time have
arrived at an agreement for co-opcra-
| tion with the Mexican Government IN
putting down the rebellion in the north,
that rebellion would have speedily end
ed, and Mexico, in place of beng IN
turmoil for the past two years would
have been peaceful except for the small
cmeute which would have fairly de-
described the Madero rebellion had it
been put down promptly in the manner
suggested But since VIC refused to
intervene then, it would be the wild
est folly 10 forciblv intervene now,
since the seeds of rebellion are well
scattered throughout the whole of
Mexico, and since it is practically GER
tain that we would have to fight a
united Mexico if we intervene un-
asked which would mean tho raising
Of an army of 100000 men and a war
that would last before peace and order
were finally established, probably
three years.
But as we have not intcrvcncd here
tofore, the tremendous cost in life and
treasure Of Intervention has been
Iavoidcd, and it is certainly desirable
TO avoid it now and henceforth. a
pcaceful intervention in conjunction
with the Mexican Government, such an
intervention as we are making in Mica
rarua. is one thing. \ forciblc inter
vention against the will of the McHi-
can Government would be quite another
thing.
We believe fully, as we have pc
lievcd all along. that if VIC could ar
rive at an accommodation with the
Mexican Government whereby VIC
could follow up and punish raiders thal
molested or threatened American cltl'
zens. either in Mexico or in Texas OF
Arizona, and n Joint campaign could
be agreed upon between the Federal
forces of Mexico and those of the Unit
cd States, that would be the best all
around settlement of the trouble stu
alton that could be made