The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-07-15
AFFAIRS ARE AGAIN
GRAVE IN MEXICO
Recent Outbreaks Foreshadow Even
Greater Peril For Americans
Beyond the Border.

WASHINGTON, July 15.-The rising
tide of anti-Amercanism in Mexico
hnds Secretary Bryan still without any
definite policy for the treatment of
what was the biggest single problem
OF foreign relations which confronted
him on the day he took office four
months ago.
The reports of the last "a hours eul-
mlnatlng in the announcement that an
anonymous threat to blow up the
American embassy had been received
by Ambassador Wilson and that the
latter had been obliged to protest
against the holding of an anti American
demonstration in the Mexican capital
Sunday have caused a stir in Wash
lngton; that is, everywhere except at
the state department, where no serious
apprehension is felt.
In other quarters, however, the re-
ports from Mexico City have served
again to center attention on the bad
situation in Mexico and have brought
forth renewal of criticism of the
course of the present administration
toward that country.
ceded by the best informed. That
while there is more trouble brewing in
Mexico the time is not yet ripe for
another explosion such as has in the
past brought the United States to the
very threshold of decisive action
While even the most optimistic con
cede that Mexico can be relied upon
to make trouble for the United States
Il,
capital are not considered as having
any immediate connection with the real
explosion that is expected.
Mr.. Bryan has no policy toward Mex
| leo, and state department officials,
therefore, are obliged to deal with the
situation on a day to day basis Just
now the principal business before the
| department is the assisting of Ameri-
cans from Mexico TO flee from the
country
Americans are leaving Mexico by the
hundreds. There is a party of 20 refu-
| gees at Galveston, who have just come
from Tampieo. Most of the Americans
are destitute and are calling upon the
State Department to furnish them with
means to get to their homes or to the
| homes of friends and relatives.
| Up both coasts of Mexico and across
the Rio Grande are coming streams of
| Americans who have found it ALSO
utely impossible to exist longer in
| Mexico, and with the help of the Uni
| ted States consuis and the American
| Red Cross are getting out of the coun
| try as fast as they can.
| 1t is estimated that at least one third
of the Americans formerly in Mexico
have fled from the country, and more
are leaving now than at any time since
Mexico 5 troubles began. Therefore. it
| is not difficult to see one explanation
Tor the belief of those persons familiar
with conditions in the southern republic
| that serious trouble is coming.
/ The Wilson administration is really
powerless to head off the impending
trouble or to minimize it. BY its mega
tive policy of non recognition of the
| iIuerta government it has virtually tied
its hands and can do little beyond
going through the motions of getting
protection for Americn interests.
How much Importance Americans in
Mexico attach to the efforts of the
| Wilson administration is demonstrated
by the increase in the exodus since
March 4, last. Mr.. Bryan himself has
suggested that if Americans don t like
it in Mexico they had better get out.
Already one of the great European
powers through its diplomatic repre-
sentatives here has called the attention
of Secretary Bryan to the chaotic con
ditions in Mexico and their effect upon
the welfare and safety of its inhabit
ants, with a polite inquiry what the
United States proposes to do about it.
Whether the inquiry was part of a
concerted movement of the European
powers to bring the state department
to declaration of its purpose toward
Mexico did not develop today, although
reports from the city of Mexico would
appear to warrant that conclusion.