The Washington times., 1913-07-17
A CHANCE FOR SHIRT-SLEEVES.

ernment prepared restore peace and tranquility
in Mexico it should step aside and let some OF them
do so. Unless prepared to police Latin
America we should get out, repudiate the Monroe
doctrine, and permit Europe to maintain order there
Well, maybe so. But if we were shirt-sleeved
diplomat running the State Department we should
write down memorandum of our rough, crude views,
and, after having it translated into the language
of diplomacy, would forward it to any powers that
are kicking The memorandum would be about like
this: -~ ..--
Your protest received and has been considered
Do you really think conditions in Mexico are worse
than in Balkania?
do you think the United States is more re-
sponsble for losses sustained by German investors
in Mexico, than the powers of Europe are for the
ST. 100000 loss the American Tobacco Company sus
tanned in Turkish city the other day? SIS
do you not know that the present senseless, ex-
cuseIess, wicked war in the southeast of Europe
could not have started, and could not now continue
day, if the powers of Europe would exert half the
vigor that they want the United States to put forth
in Mexico? ~ ...
do you not know that there have been more
slaughter and misery in the of the last year in
the Turkish peninsula than in all the history of Mex
leo, barring perhaps the period when European
civilization under Cortez first discovered Mexico?
'You recognize, of course, that for centuries Eu-
rope has been utterly incompetent and incapable of
dealing with the Turk; that he has imposed his bar
barisms on the Christian peoples of his dominions
with impunity.
when the Turkish beam is cast out of the Euro
pean eye the United States will be glad to consider
its obligations in Mexico. .s-.A. -, I'D
"In order that the powers may not be without re-
minder of two other parallels it may also be
mentioned: .......: :,
THAT countries which have now hastened to
recognize Huertas regime of treason and assassina-
ton in Mexico delayed for years to recognize the
government of King Peter in Serva. Yet Peter got
his throne exactly Huerta got the presidency: by
assassination. The United States will be quite will
ing to- recognize the Huerta administration when it
shall have attained the age that King Peters
reign attained before Great Britain recognized Peter
THE powers of Europe set up the Congo Free
State in Central Africa and turned it over to King
Leopold to despoil. The nhumanities there perpe-
trated year after year, with all the world knowing of
them and with the European Concert directly re-
sponsible for them, may possibly be excused the
ground that Europe has never assumed that other
countries existed save for the purpose of being ex-
plotted by Europe. That excuse has never been &C
cepted by the United States
The United Kingdom which we learn is much
Mexico, is respectfully reminded of the occasion
when she waged war in China in order to save the
Brtsh-lndian business of selling opium to China
The German empire peculiarly Jealous in the
cause of peace in Mexico is reminded Of the devasta-
ton wrought by her soldiery in the African posses
sions, where vastly more of butchery and misery
were imposed in that territory grabbing enterprise
than has marked the whole course of Mexican trou-
bes in the last decade.
considering these things, and numerous other in
cidents which it is unnecessary to mention at this time
the United States Government feels that, while condi
tions are far from ideal in Mexico, it is not at all
certain that European Intervention would better
them. As the next-door neighbor to Mexico, the
United States reserves the privilege of attending to
this business in its way, and will nobrook inter-
ference"
There is good deal of hysteria nowadays about
the necessity for the United States either establish
peace in Mexico or else let somebody else do it, AS
matter of fact, il is not particularly necessary for
the United States do either thing, and it is per-
fectly that this country will let anybody
else undertake the task of Intervention. To inter-
vene means great campaign, desperate struggle,
vaster burden of misery and impovershment for
Mexico to bear-and in the end nothing gained. For
Mexico is not to have peace and the capacity for
good government imposed on her from without She
must develop from Within and the process will not
always be peaceful. 1t is only generation since
these United States had considerable internal dis
order civil war whose like the world never knew
tore this land for four years 1t not any politer
or less painful war than the kind Mexico has An
incident to that was the assassination of wise
and good President just Mexico has recently had
wise and good President assassinated /
Intervention in Mexico may yet become neces-
sary If necessary, it will be intervention by the
United States and nobody else. The time is not
ANNA for renudatinp Monroe doctrine ond LET.