The Washington times., 1913-07-27
AMBASSADOR WILSON'S STAND.

Henry Lane Wilson, American ambassador to Mex
leo, is determined to keep stiff upper lip and apol-
ogze for nothing. In that determination he is per-
fecv correct If his administration of his post has
been as bad as this country believes it has been then
no apologies could possibly condone it; and if he has
in fact been doing good work in Mexico then he has
no need to apologize.
1t isn't hard to believe that Mr.. Wilson is right
when he says that scheme of mediation in Mexico
is all rot" Mediation might have been possible last
February, when Mr. Ambassador Wilson himself was
the manifest mediator; when conferences were going
on at his house; when it seemed plain enough that
the right instead of the wrong attitude his part
could have saved the lives of the Maderos and Of
Suarez and restored something like order to the CITY,
That was the time when mediation would have been
worth while At that time, very informally and I'M
officially of course Mr.. Ambassador Wilson appears
to have been very much in demand as a mediator.
He boasts that he brought Diaz and Huerta together
and as to Mrs. Madero's bitter charges, sustained
from many other directions, that the lives of the
Maderos need not have been sacrificed at all, the am
bassador hoty retorts that he doesn't want to bother
with Mrs. Madero." That seems to have been his at
titude at the time when little bother might have
saved the lives of the governments heads.
Back of the Henry Lane Wilson episode in Mex
co there is long array of mysterious things in Mex
leo that this country is entitled know about There
is the story of the Hamilton mine, for instance; of
how the supreme court of Mexico was forced to re-
verse itself on threat of dspleasing the Washington
Government; of how Porfrio Diaz, when President
directed the chief justice to take this course, because
he feared to offend the Washington Government
That story is told, in great circumstance and detail
by everybody from Mexico who drops into Washing
ton. 1t involves people and influences so important
that it ought to be investigated in detail and either
proved or disproved.
good deal of testimony has been produced
which strongly suggests that the United States rela
tons to business politics, finance exploitation, fac
tons revolutions, and riots in Mexico, for number
of years past have constituted general and sweep
ing disgrace to this country. American financial
groups, American exploters, American corporations
of vast wealth and power, American contracting in
terests American trusts great andholders, live stock
rasers and all of interests are gossiped about
in every consideration of Mexican affairs as if the
really important concerns in Mexico were all Amer
can and as if the really effective potent influences
there were all American. 1t is time to know more
about all this Is there any real sentiment in Mex
leo? Is there any party faction there that is more
than puppet for some half-concealed American in
terest? That is the line of information the beuddled
American public would like to get at. The Senatorial
investigation of Mexican affairs failed utterly to get
at the facts; it made all this completely more difficult
and uncertain than ever