Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1913-11-20

Mexican situation one of these day!
and it is going to drop right away
Reports which are flying about thF
Capitol today are TO the effect tha
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan will make public their MeXl
can policy this week. The Jlngt
press and others which are losing nc
opportunity to manufacture some
anti-administration political thunder
have been complaining for weeks
that President Wilson and his Secre-
tary of State have no Mexican policy.
that they have simply been drifting
about waiting for something to turn
up. Those in close touch with the
executive department know better
than this, they know that a very
definite line of policy has been pur-
sued and have every reason to be-
lieve that it will be pursued to the
| finish. The President h as been
guided by two desires, viz: To re-
store constitutional order in Mexico
and to do it without plunging his
country into a war with that un-
happy nation. He has been beset by
! bales of gratuitous advice, much OF
it from perfectly well-intentioned
b u equally ill-informed people.
Some say that it is none Of our affair
and that we should simply stand
aside and permit them go ahead
and butcher each other, willy nilly,
al infnitum and to an everlasting
finish or so long as they may desire
to continue that pleasant pastime
down across the Rio Grand. That
might be alright but for the fact
that, when this particular series of
revolutions and instructions began,
there were forty thousand Ameri-
cans in Mexico and a billion dollars
Of American money invested there.
Further and more important, there
we're ters- of thousands OF other
foreigners, English, French, Ger
mans, Japs, etc. living down there
and ever since Mr.. Monroe promul-
gated his little doctrine which will
not permit any European nation to
become unduly active over on this
side of the pond. Uncle Sam is OBJ
liged to act as the guardian over the
citizens of those countries who have
immigrated to the new world.
Others say that we should have
recognized that blood thirsty old
murderer, Huerta, and let it go at
that. Many have strongly advised
to send about ten thousand OF our
khaki boys down there, clean up
things generally, restore order, see
that regular presidential election
is held and then get out again.
It is doubtful if any recent admin
istration has had a more tckllsh
problem to deal with than has con-
fronted the present administration
in their efforts to bring order out
Of chaos in the southern country.
The criticism to the effect that
there has been 10 real policy, as
made by some bitterly partisan
papers, have probably been melted
chiefly by pique over their inability
to find out just what the President
and his advisers have been doing.
Realizing that very delicate sltua-
ton was involved. the administra-
ton has maintained the utmost sec
recy. Not being able to discover
what was actually taking place
many of the big newspapers have
had to do the next best thing. from
their viewpoint, and invent Mexican
news. Many Of the stories publish
ed by our metropolitan papers Wouid
have been dangerous had they not
been so utterly and ridiculously ab-
surd. One Washington paper was
particularly offensive in its absolute
disregard for the truth until the
President. one morning, took his
right handy little pen in hand ana
wrote them little note to the effect
that a certain sensational story
which they had published that morn
ing about the Mexican situation was
wholly untrue, foolishly false anu
generally harmful and that other
wise. it was alright. It is noticeable
that that particular paper has been
much more circumspect since recelv-
ing that little epistle from the Whlte
House.