The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-25

Mexico, who is now in New York, will
remain in this country for the rest of
the summer. at least. In August her
| sister, Mrs. Marie Price Wear, and
| her children, will join the Hudsons.
| Mrs. Hudson has given out some of the
| experiences of Americans in Mexico,
| and her ideas on the situation, as fol-
| lows:
Intervention by the United States
is the hope of intelligent and patriotic
Mexicans, according to Mrs. Paul
| Hudson, wife of the proprietor of the
Mexican Herald, generally regarded
as one of the most important papers
| published south of the Rio Grande
| Mrs. Hudson came to New York with
her husband to attend the graduation
| of their daughter Pauline at the John
Gardiner school.
TMr. Hudson had to hurry back to
/ Mexico to attend to his business -
said Mrs. Hudson. but it was such a
| relief to set foot in my country that
1 have decided to keep my family here
| for a while. We had been swimming
at seas in Mexico for so long that l
was glad to let down and touch bot
TOM
Forty thousand United States citi-
zens in Mexico are about to lose all
they possess she said. MANY have
already been reduced to extremity and
more than any one will know about
have been killed by bandits and by
unavoidable or unfortunate proximity
to battle.
''In this situation it is the inactiv-
| ity of the state department of the
United States which had disposed US
to welcome actual intervention, not
only to secure the lives and liberties
of American citizens and other for
eigners, but to put stop on humani-
tartan grounds, to the worse than Bull
garian atrocities that are perpetrated
on Mexican women and children and
other native non-combatants- A year
ago the same people who now speak
hopefully of American Intervention
opposed the suggestion with fervor.
| What has caused the change?
In the first place they are dis
heartened by the failure of the Unit
| ed States to show the firm hand which
| would have prevented the lapse of the
country into brigandage. An uncom-
| promising stand for safety of Ameri-
can lives and property should have
! been taken at the outbreak of the
In view of what many believe to be
| the decay of American diplomacy
| those who have the best interests of
! Mexico at heart would rather see the
situation dealt with by the United
! States congress hoping that congress
! is more Immediately representative of
American honor and intelligence.
| when Huerta took charge the
! best informed people in Mexico
| deemed that he had back of him the
! most powerful group Oh men IN the
! nation. If Huerta can't pull the
| country through no one can they said.
! 1t is now believed that had the Huerta
! government had the same recognition
| at Washington that was accorded it
| by the European and South American
powers Madero's successor would have
| been able to obtain credit and restore
/ order.
Even now recognition might not be
| too late though my correspondents in
J hn of re -nr-x- or &C
| to the future.
THE stand taken by the state de-
partment that the Huerta government
shall not be recognized because its
| hands are not clean appears somewhat
! finnicky to people in the City of Mex
, leo. Revolutions are seldom bloodless.
. Whatever the means to get his power,
| Huerta's title to the presidency has
the approval of the Mexico forms of
! law and is of equal validity with that
I of Provisional President De La Barra,
whom the late President Madero sue
4 ceeded. 1t is objected that Huerta has
4 not called a general election. Under
the laws of Mexico an election could
not have been held earlier than the
present month of July. Every one in
Mexico realizes that it would be folly
to pretend to hold presidential cleo
ton at this time. Might not the state
department find such an election an
other obstacle to diplomatic relations
1T appears difficult for public
opinion in the United States to be
aroused in this matter. We believe in
Mexico that the state department viii
do nothing until the demand is made
upon it by the American people II
my countrymen realized that loo
Americans. in round numbers, have
|, been wantonly killed in Mexico in the
last year they would undoubtedly
sternly demand that the state de-
partment take up negotiations with
| Mexico at once.
TT seems remarkable in this day
that American citizens should appea
in vain for the protection of the star:
and stripes
~ !. - J.
Miss Meta Legler, who is spending