The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-30
IS A MIRACLE HAPPENING?

In view of the more recent reports
from Mexico, ono might fairly ask,
'is miracle happening down there? -
President Huerta 's reply TO President
Wilson'S assumption of supervision
over Mexican politics was conclusive
from the point of international law.
President Wilson S assumption of over
lordship in Mexico. his debating of
! terms which Mexico must conform to,
is about tho rawest diplomatic prop
osition tina, ever came from any coun'
| try, AS matter Of diplomacy between
! two independent nations, the Wilson
| position is prcposterous, and there mpst
be some tremendous pressure upon
President Huerta to make him consent
| to consider it, or appear 10 do so, as
the dispatches indicate.
What is that pressureq Evidently
President Wilson has called to mis- sup
port the governments Of France and
Great Britain. and that anomaly IN it.
self is n wonder when the question of
enforcing the Monroe doctrine with
out the cooperation Of the European
nations has always been our pride;
if this is to be done, that doctrine
might as we'll be abandoned: because
it is directed specifically and espe-
cially against aggressive European ma
tions, and If they arc to have hand
in the upholding OF the Monroe doc
trine. they will construe that doctrine
in their own way, and are certain to
twist it entirely from the understand
ing of it which has heretofore pre-
vailed in the United States.
In so far, therefore, as European
pressure has influenced President
Huerta in this matter, that influence
must be looked upon by Americans
with mixed feelings. Some will con-
strue it to be serious abandonment
Of the Monroe doctrine, and practi-
cally admitting European powers to
a partnership with us in determining |
the application of that doctrine to the
republics OF Central and South Amer
lea. So that we are liable, in order |
to gain this small victory over Huerta,
to have forfeited the very essence and
core of the Monroe doctrine.
The country will await with good
deal of interest the explanation of
the part which the European nations
will plav in this support of President
and if it shall turn out indeed
that we have forfeited our exclusive
traditions under the Monroe doctrine
in order to gain this advantage over
Huerta, it will be victory very dear
y gained.
But IL it shall appear that nothing
essential has been surrendered in get
ing the cooperation Of the European
governments and we simply got their
consent to withhold the payment Of
he money. on the loan which Huerta
negotiated in France and Great Brit
lin until Huerta conforms to the terms
aid down by the United States, then
40 great harm may have been done. 1t
ooks very much as though this money
proposition must be a controlling fea-
,ure in the decision Of Huerta If he
lon his perfectly logical and proper
answer TO President Wilson; and in
mis- case. it will appear, that though
We professed great scoru of dollar
diplomacy at the time that President
Wilson made his declaration to the
CENTRAL American States, we are, in
act, making more use OF ''dollar di.
than has ever been known
heretofore in the history of the United