Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-11-20
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l[1E Ia AMI LIZ lNIAl DOOA
President Wilson'S hand is not to be forced by IIuertas inso-
lence, by the intrigues of British concessionaires o r by Americans
who lack his responsibility and patience.
The presidents purpose is not war. 1t is peace. 1t Is IN he-
half of peace and not of strife that he has demanded the retire
ment of the dictator. This may be brought about in various ways
but time is likely to be on Of the most powerful factors.
Wholly aside from his public obligations, the president Is
profoundly interested in peace. To say nothing of the sacrifice
of life, war means more taxes, more debt, more pensions, more
graft. War would defeat or wreck every high aim to winch his
administration is pledged.
It is through his triumph that after fifty years Of extor-
tionate war taxation the people have gained their first relief. 1t
is the result of his election that any hope whatever of a reform
of our war created finances is held out. 1t Is TO nm n ne
country looks for correction of vicious systems and policies, every
one of them a product of war and of evil passions that war always
breeds.
There is no public motive for war, because the president has
already announced that never again will the United States seek
one additional foot of territory by conquest. There is no private
motive for war, because the administration is known to have 10
entanglements with predatory Big Business. There is n foreign
incentive to war, except possibly in Great Britain, and public opn-
ion there is rapidly discouraging official bumptiousness and the
greed of selfish interests.
If time and its exhaustions do not work against Iuerta with
enough celebrity, events may easily be FASTENED by opening up
traffic in arms with the conshtutionalists and by a blocade of the
Mexican ports. A tyrant who is already doomed at home, who
has lost control except in his own camps, whose most powerful
neighbor is hostile and who can awaken no sympathy anywhere
on earth cannot prevail.
The processes of retribution may be slow, but they r sure.
Mexico itself, with reasonable help, should provide its own de
lverance. In n o other way can it's welfare be so certainly as
sured. In no other way can there be established between it and
this country so enduringly the relationship of good neighborhood.
On this side of the Rio Grande there is strength. On the
other is weakness. On this side there is regard for law, for hu
mainly, for civilization. On the other there is arrogance and VIC
lence. On this side there is popular government under restraint.
On the other there is an attempt by one man to rule despoticaly
in defiance of right and reason.
The American people have been urged, even now re urged,
to accept government by executive decree. What do they think
of it next door?-New York World.
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There is a growing feeling in the state that the university
is not just what it should be. Gradually the professors re get.
TING m and seeking placeS elsewhere There ms he some GOOD
reason for this which does not appear on the surface. Common
rumOr has it that the position of a professor who does not
"knuckle' to the people who run the university, is not a pleasant
one. People who amount to anything in the educational world
do not care to sacrifice their independence and consequently seek
other fields. The board of regents seem to have nothing to say
about the institution whatever.
The astonishing thing about the verdict of the ritual muir
der case is that a jury of peasants withstood the tremendous
pressure OF the government and refused to lend themselves to a
scheme to fastcn 81 odous a crime upon a religious body. They
brought in a verdict in accordance with the evidence which was
a surprise considering the murder took place in darkest Russia
1t only demonstrates that 'For justice all places a temple and
all seasons summer
The Duchess of Portland is the Queen of England's chief
lady OF honor. In times past this office carried with it the duty
OF buying the queen s wearing apparel and seeing that the buds
were up to date and thoroughly in fashion. The Portland
Duchess, however, refuses to ''dicker with tradespeople,, and
therefore has been relieved of this arduous duty. 1t appears that
the rake off, isn't what it used to be.
The German government proposes that the diamond mines
owned by a German syndicate in South Africa shall only put a
limited amount Of gems on the market in order to keep up the
price. Meanwhile Nevada diamond purchasers will have to fall
back on Bob Logan's diamond deposit in the Como range, or pay