The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-03
SET FORTH IN SARCASM

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| personal representative IN Mexico, may
| be taking some chances in going out
into the insurrectory district to get
| acquainted with the conditions of
| ranch life in Mexico, but the chances
| arc that no harm will come of his
trip and that the experience he gains
Will be Of value and service TO him.
There is lull ip the Mexican agita
ton Just now, and it is fit time to
present sarcastic view of the situa.
tion as given in the Washington Post,
an Independent newspaper with Demo.
cratic leanings. This editorial, under
the head "The Mexican Situation Now
In the Hands Of Congress" is racy
reading, and Is rs follows;
II the mission of Gov LIND and the
observations OF William Bayard Hale
haye not impressed favoraby the Mexi-
can authorities nor conduced TO the
the masses OF the Mexican people 1t
must not be thought for moment that
the mission has not established a prece-
dent In dealing with Latin American
countries. and 1t should be held as In
dlcative OF a policy that cannot fail TO
produce momentous results.
1t was not as diplomatic favor that
request was made for the retirement
however courteous and polite that off
cal may be, President Wilson would
not place this country or himself In posi-
tion of asking q political favor from any
foreign official.
1t was not without due consideration
of our right to demand and TO enforce.
II II necessary the purging OF the list Of
Mexican Presidential candidates OF
those we do not approve OF that Huer-
Ia was asked 10 withdraw himself as
a candidate at the next election.
Our administration could not ask IL
as favor. so 1t must have been done
as demand for right, and In dipo-
macy q demand for right invaria-
bly, carries with II the privilege of
the party who demands the right is
able to enforce H.
II the administration has the right
TO request Huerta 8 retirement. II It
dates for the Mexican Presidency and
to say this man shall not be a candi
date. IT has the right to say who shall
be a candidate, and the people OF the
of every right this country possesses.
Intervention in Mexico is already
very we'll established fact when the ex
ecutive Of the United States has deter
Presidency at the next election In that
republic
That President Wilson has acted in
dependenuy OF all foreign powers in this
affair is q matter OF congratulation, and
II he can bring peace to Mexico with
out foreign aid or foreign complications,
the citizens OF the United States viii
appreciate that his efforts to maintain
the Monroe doctrine under difficult cir
cumstances have made still flrmer that
ma ational policy,
The compa rative ease with which Ma
dero overthrew Porflrio Dlaz when adj
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arms and ammunition by jUntas operat
ing from bases in the United States; the
clean sweep that our naval and marine
forces made Of the revolutionary armies
in Nicaragua when we landed 10 pre-
serve law and order and 10 maintain the
existing administration there: the story
OF Panama where an independent na
tion was created in day and night
when O. Latin-American republic became
obstructive; these are significant OF our
influence in the affairs OF those coun-
tries. and emphasize the Importance of
closer knit and more fraternal rela t!ons.
Diplomacy has too long been hampered
by the Talleyrand view that language
was formed to conceal ideas.
Our administration knows what II
wants. and in plain English 1t demanded
the retirement OF Buerta as candidate
for President, and asserted It's right TO
have a persona grata' elected President
OF Mexico.
The subsequent translation OF the de-
mand into pure Castilian language did not
seem 70 have softened the terms nor
made them more acceptable TO the MeX!-
can executive.
The adminis istration would surely not
have made such demands unless II con
sidered that the government OF the
United states had a right to make them.
They being essential To the peace Of
Mexico. and this country having the
right to make them II remains for Con-
gress TO place the administration in DO
sitIon To enforce It's essential and right
flil demands, and II becomes the duty Of
the administration now 10 restore peace
in Mexico by tho vigorous, open. strong.
fra nlc policy which President Wilson
stood for in making these demands upon
tho dc facto President OF Mexico