The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-18
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The latest from Washington with re
gard to the intentions Of President
Wilson Indicate that the President i:
getting tired Of his futile efforts tc
| bring President Hucrta Of Mexico tc
time, and that he contemplates vcllcd
| intervention by means of supporting
| Carranza. who is at the head of the re
bcllion in the north against the Hucr;a
government There are other little
brigand bands in various parts of the
country, but the northern insurgents
appear to be supporting Carranza with
more or less unanimity and fervor, At
the same time, there has hardly been
time since the acc cession Of Huerta
when the Federal forces were IN RS
commanding Il position, even In the
north Of Mexico, as they are now. The
Carranza revolt has been cut in two
by the reclamation Of Chihuahua to the
allegiance of the Federal government.
Carranza was Governor Of Coahulla,
but has practically been driven out OF
that State, and the rebellion now has
its chief strength west of Chihuahua
in Sonora, and parts of Sinaloa and
Durango. President Wilson, therefore,
III supporting the revolution, if indeed
he shall do so, comes to that support
when the revolution is almost at its
lowest cbb.
In so doing he would violate the
princinles so earnestly contended for
during our own war of the rebellion,
where the American government under
President Lincoln emphatically pro-
tested against the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy by any of the
European powers. He will also set
precedent in Mexico of an extremely
doubtful and perilous nature. ii has
been announced all the time since the
beginning of insurrection in Mexico
that In case Of intervention by the
United States all of the rebel bands
would Join the government IN oppos~
ing any invasion by the United States.
1t is evident that the support OF Car
rama by the United States would be
ineffective, unless the United States
should render direct military aid. If II
did this, however, the very excuse that
the insurgents have been seeking for
the past three years, whereby they
might get together, would be afforded
them; and we might then see the curl
Gus spectacle of all the Federal senti-
ment in Mexico being supported by all
the insurrectonary bands except Car
ranza's and the United States would
be obliged to shoulder the Carrnnza in
,urrection and carry it to successful
ssue, not only against the Federal au
5hority Of Mexico, but also as against
he various other forms Of rebellion in
Mexico.
Again, if the United States should |
-ecognize Carranza as tho President Of
Mexico, Carranza would by that very |
act be made odious to the majority of |
he Mexicans, and we would probably |
,e called upon TO support him by force
n his office during tho whole term
hat he might be President. And this |
!gainst tho majority sentiment of the
,eople of Mexico,
IT is a new and perilous path that is
hus suggested for President Wilson. 1t |
loes not seem as though it were possi |
lie TO get him to tread that path; |
till. in his exasperation at the Gin
of Huerta, he may com.
nit himself to something that will in
yolve heavy task upon the American |
,eople, But the curious drifting pol
cy which he has pursued has landed |
Jim in situation where he may con-
ider it necessary to do something even
o extraordinary and indefensible from
ne point of international law as inter
'ention in favor of rebellion in Mexico.