The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-19
THE MEXICAN ANSWER.

Ii seems 10 lis that the answer re,
turned BY the Mexican Government to
the warning sent out by our Federal
administration with respect to trans
cressions of civilized law in Mexico, is
one that should appeal to the sympa-
thy OF the American people. Those
who remember the conditions which
prevailed in our own country at the
| time Of the prevalence of the
| Rebellion. will recall forcibly the
deep resentment felt by the pat
riotie people of this country whoa
ever a foreign nation undertook to be
come impatient with the Government
Of the United States in its inability
| for time to enforce its laws and the
rule Of peace and order through
out the United States. number OF
the European governments undertook
to get together on the proposition that
the United States must be held &C
couptable for the acts Of those la re-
bellion against it, precisely as has
been intimated that We ought to do to
the Mexican Government for outrages
committed by Orozco. Those who re-
call those days Of the Rebellion will
therefore have a deep sympathy for
the Mexican Government in its un-
happy plight and inability to do what
| it Processes itself anxious 10 do with
respect to the enforcement of inter
| o,;f ;for - pIT,In
and obligations in the struggle going
on now in Mexico,
1t would be as unfair for us to press
this matter against the Mexican Gov
ernment as il would have been unfair
in the European nations to have
| pressed any such point against the
Union at the time Of the Rebellion,
We should therefore, from our own
experience and from the well-known
! feelings which existed among loyal
people at that critical time in resent
mcnt against all efforts to put the
Union at disadvantage by reason Of
its inability to perform its interna
tional obligations, be all the more
enient toward the Mexican Govern
ment in this time Of its trial. Tt is
quite true that Madero. the head Of
that government, opened wide the door
for turmoil, dissension, and repeated
Instructions by his own insurrectiop
against Diaz, and the fact that he
! succeeded is by no means a warning
TO others to desist from rebellion, but
rather an invitation to them to revolt
and make the best fight they can with
hope of the same success that Ma"
dero won.
1t is, of course, our due to have
Americans protected in Mexico. 1t is
with impatience and anger that we
see Americans III Mexico imprisoned
! and slaughtered. But the question is
whether by intervening and undcrtak
ing to stop that sort Of thing by force,
| we would not be parties to the slaugh.
ter of yet more Americans and bring
on International complications far more
serious than anything that has oc-
curred or is likely to occur under pres
ent conditions, And by so doing we
would be doing precisely what we so
strongly objected to others doing when
we were in like distress. The killing
Of Americans by the insurgents is
grievous wrong; it is a wrong that
will have to be atoned for. But can
we by forcible measures do anything
to stop it7 Nay, is it not certain that
if we do undertake to use force, we
will invite the killing of far more
Americans than are likely to be killed
If we exercise patience and allow
events to uutapgle in the due course oil
time?
! President Taft IS position all through
with respect to this Mexican turmoil
has been not only correct, but adml-
rable. The President has shown
friendly forbearance toward Mexico,
l.. which the Mexican reply emphaticalIy
recognizes, and which is commendabe
from every international and humani-
tartan standpoint. We trust that this
forbearance will be continued, and
that We shall not do anything in the
Mexican imbroglio which we would
not have been willing to have done to
US In the time of our stress OF Civil
War. Let us apply the same maxims
and the same tolerance towards Mexico
that we in our time Of stress demanded
or other nations, and In general re-
ceived. We have no designs upon
Mexico, and in spite Of a good deal of
hot headed resentment towards Mexi-
can brutality, the calm, deliberate
voice OF the people Of the United
States uust be to keep hands off and
let The Mexicans work out their own