Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-02

the world A test so compounded
ought easily to be made to govern
both the establishment of new treaty
obligations and the Interpretation of
those already assumed.
The Mexican Cloud.
There is but one cloud upon our
horizon. That has shown itself to
the south of us, and hangs over Mexi-
co. There can be no certain prospect
of peace in America until General
Huerta has surrendered his usurped
authority in Mexico; until it is un-
derstood on all hands, indeed, that
such pretended governments will not
be countenanced or dealt with by the
government of The United States. We
are the friends of constitutional gov
eminent III America; we are more
] than its friends. we arc its cham
pions; because in no other way can
our neighbors, to whom we would
wish in every way to make proof of
our friendship, work out their own
development in peace and liberty.
Mexico has no government. The at
tempt to maintain one at the City
of Mexico, has broken down, and a
more military despotism has been set
| up which has hardly more than the
semhlance of national authority. II
originated in the usurpation of Vic
toriano Huerta, who, after a brief
attempt to play the part of consti-
tutional president, has at last cast
aside even the pretense of legal right
and declared himself dictator. AS a
| consequence condition of affairs
now exists in Mexico which has made
lit doubtful whether even the most
elementary and fundamental rights
either of her own people or of the
citizens of other countries resident
within her territory can long be sue
cessfully safeguarded, and which
threatens, if long continued, to i'm
peril the interests of peace, order
and tolerable life in the lands imme-
diately to the south of us.
Attacks Huerta.
| Even if the usurper had succeeded
in his purposes, in despite of the con-
stitution of the republic and the
rights of the people, he would have
set UP nothing but a precarious and
hateful power, which could have
| lasted but a little while, and whose
| eventual downfall would have left the
country in more deplorable condi-
| ton than ever. But he has not sue
ceeded. He has forfeited the respect
and the moral support even of those
oCt
him succeed. Little by little he has
| been completely isolated. BY little
every day his power and prestige are
lcrumbling and the collapse is not far
away. We shall not, / believe, be
obliged to alter our policy of watch
full waiting. And then, when the end
comes, we shall hope to see consti-
tutional order restored in distressed
Mexico by the concert and energy of
r.f I,Nr- 1rp.
erty of their people to their own am
billions.
The Currency Bill.
I turn to matters of domestic con-
Germ You already have under con-
stderation a bill for the reform of
our system of banking and currency,
for which the country waits with i'm
patience, as for something funda-
mental to it's whole business life and
necessary to set credit free from ar
| bitrary and artificial restraints. l
need not say how earnestly / hope
| for its early enactment into law. |
lake leave to beg that the whole en-
ergy and attention OF the Senate be
concentrated upon it till the matter
| is successfully disposed of. And vet
feel that the request is not needed
that the members of that great House
need no urging in this service to the
Icountry.
1 present to you, in addition, the
urgent necessity that special pro-
vision be made also for facilitating
| the credits needed by the farmers OF
the country. The pending currency
bill does the farmers a great service
1t puts them upon an equal footing
with other business men and masters
of enterprise, as it should and upon
| it's passage they will find themselves
| quit of many of the difficulties which
now hamper them in the field OF
! credit. The farmers, of course, ask
and should be given no special privi-
lege, such as extending to them credit
| of the government itself. What they
need and should obtain is legislation
which will make their own abundant
| and substantial credit resources avail
| able as foundation for joint, con-
] certed local action in their own be-
half in getting the capital they must
use. 1t is to this we should now
address ourselves.
1t has, singularly enough, come to
pass that we have allowed the in
dustry of our farms to lag behind the