The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-09-02
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ton and may give a wrong impress
sion 10 the country, by the confirm
snce Of Mr.. Lind's presence in tbs
disturbed country and the announce
ment from time to time. that he Il
about a resume of negotiations with
the Huerta government In the pros
pect Of a successful issue TO the con
tention that has been made. The in
timations from Washington of the
progress Of Mr.. Lind's negotiations
during the period of his presence In
the Mexican capital we're, probably,
more encouraging than the actual
facts justities. 1t is now made appaT-
rent by the publication OF the notes
exchanged between MIR. Lind and the
Huerta government that there never
was any sign Of yielding on the part
Of the MeXieans, and the effort to
treat with the provisional goWrnment
for friendly solution OF diff
eulties' on the basis Of Esident
Wilson's conditions, was a Nbmplete
and hopeless failure While President
Huerta and his ministers received
Mr.. Lind courteously and bore to-
wards him personally a correct atti
tude, the replies made by Senior Gam
boa to the American representations
were not only categorical reflections of
every proposition made from Wash
ngton, but shot with studied impu-
denee. The Gamb2g note. published
by President wfsd lis very sdroit.
and, in a sense, am able paper It
lays emphasis on the weakest point
OF Mr. Wilson'S whole case, the de.
mand that General Huerta himself
should not be candidate for the
presidency of Mexico, and Senior Gam.
boa plays upon the offensive from
the Mexican point of view phase OF
this suggestion with the purpose OF
winning sympathy Of Mexicans to the
provisional president, not without re-
suits, either, as the comments Of
Mexican papers Indicate. The impos.
sibility Of the Huerta governments
giving guarantees that all factions
would agree tQM bide the result Of
CONSTITUTIONAL eSetion is also effee-
lively stressed The Gamboa note is,
If course, mora sophisticated than
GENUINE, but II is clever, nevertheless.
md the very fact that it is artfully
shows conclusively that the
duerta governmemnt has not nor
aver had any intention Of even en-
to meet the views of Presi-
lent Wilson.
In Mexico the Huerta partisans are
the issue as a diplomatic
triumph for the provisional govern
ment, and are clearly not in any way
moved by the declarations and def
mtions of policy made by President
Wilson. The essence of the force of
that policy is determination of
complete withdrawal by the United
States from the situation, leaving, the
lluerta regime bare to the disapproy-
al Of the best sense of the enlightened
world In the hope and the expecta-
ton that the moral pressure will in.
eyitably being beneficient effects Ia
pursuance of this policy the conf.
dontial agent of President Wilson
should have been recalled directly to
Washington and not left to look
backward with lingering hope that
q resumption of parleys would i'm.
pfhye the situation II there was any
such possibility it would have devel
oped more certainly had the Next
cans been convinced Mr. Lind
was done than by persuasion that
he had other proposals to make. It
Is unlikely that the Huerta govern
ment has any other intention than it
has already indicated, and opinion in
this country had best settle down to
a conviction that the situation in Next
co will become more involved before
il begins to clear up, and that the
prospect OF Intervention by force To
compel order is by no means remote,
even as consequence OF MIR. VIII
sons highminded and patient policy.
II il is to be other WISE if the HUI
erta regime is to realize that it
cannot prevail in the face of the
reprobation of the civilized world, for
which the American government has
spoken, ii will be through the silent
working of the moral forces Mr.. Will
son has set onward, and not through
any diplomatic representations or ar
guments. The psychology of the case
requires. in short, that we should
actually turn our backs upon the HUI
erta regime and leave the situation to
shane itself for n time Mt least