Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-15
The Principles Of International Law la-
voIved in The Mexican Problem.

voIved in The Mexican Problem.
The best we can hope for in Mexico
Is that thr Hucrta evil will cure itself.
The worst We have TO fear is that We
may have to intervene There will be
no Intervention unless that step shall
become one Of supreme necessity.
There is talk IN Washington Of four
ways OF dealing with the problem.
There are but two ways. One is 20 20
in, the other is to keep out. There is
nothing IN what President Wilson has
done thu far which would make II
necessary for va 10 use force in Mexico.
He has delivered no ultimatum, be has
set no tiiae within which President
Huerta must comply with our wishes
or take the consequences. II appears
that he has represented 20 President
Houern that. as IL is impossible for us
10 recognize bis Government. or any
Govornmet rregularly set up By him,
IL will be necessary for him to take
himself out Of the way if Mexico il 20
enjoy peace and our friendship. IN the
circumsti nocs that Is not going too
far. II Is merely representation Of
the facte.
What we might DO should Huerta
disregard our advice and show himself
entirely indifferent to the welfare Of
his country is matter we are not call
cd upon to discuss wthhim. Il should
be under TODD 10y everybody that We
have no lawful right 90 use arms to
bring about the reimbursement of Mexi-
can Government affairs which We re
gard az desirable. The Mexican Gov
urnment is sovereign. In the view OF
international law il stands on equality
with ourselves. The Mexican people
have the right TO settle the affair Of
their Govcrnmet in their own way.
even though that way may be very at
tic 60 our,l.kiug. The perfectly we'll
settled rule Of law is non-intervention.
The exceptions are when, by their
internal broils, a people disturb the
peace or threaten the security of their
neighors. That is lawful ground for
intervention as measure of self-de
tense. Beyond that, lying rather IN
the domain Of morals than Of interna-
tional law. are those occasions when.
10y the opinion of civilized nations, in-
terventon Is warranted on the ground
of humanity. or when organized gov
eminent has so far broken down as to
be unable to afford protection to
foreign residents. That situation has
not yet arisen 10 Mexico We hope
that IL will not arise.
There arc many indications that
Hucrta is growing weaker, that he will |
be unable TO maintain himself AS we
pointed out yesterday, he has about |
him none of the statesmen prominent |
IN former administrations, and the |
newer men ste one by one deserving
MIN. Ii is significant that Csvsrru- |
bias. the Mexican Minister 10 Russia,
has resigned because of his unwilling
ness to serve under the Huerta dicta- |
torship, II is his belief that the time |
has gone by when dictators can set |
themselves up in Mexico. remark of |
which ths plain implication is that /
HuertS VIII shortly be forced 70 yield /
to public opinion. il public opinion may |
be said to exist in that disturbed re-
public, With oil their peeuliarities of
temperament the Mexicaus are not /
wholly destitute OF common sense.
There must be multitudes OF them who
are able TO understand the very serious
Disadvantages of a continuance of |
Huerto's Irresponsible rule, involving.
as it must, the rupture of all official
relations with US. and beyond that the
danger OF forcihle intervention. The
pressure our own Government is exert
ing upon the obstinate dictator will !
thus be reinforced, it would seem. by
increasing dissatisfaction in his own
capital.
In such conditions il is possible that
he may Weld TO pressure at home.
which he could co more gracefully than
u pressure from without. or that his
going my be accelerated by an upris.
ing much nearere at hand than in the
camps of the Constitutionailsts at the
North. II be were oul Of the way.
steps might be taken by the Provisional
Government succeeding him to hold an
election that should result in an express
sion Of the will of the Mexican people
under the forms of law TO which cur 4
assent and our recognition could be
given. New York Times.