Arizona republican., 1913-11-08
WILSON FACES CRISIS
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threatened for a time to produce an unfortunate strain upon our relations with Great Britain. The British gov ernment gets out of it, however, by of ficiaIly advising the state department that Sir Lionel Garden repudiates the interview credited to him. Thus, tech nically, Great Britain preserves a cor rect standing in the matter.
 At the same time, there appears to be an increasing feeling on the part of that something positive and effective should be done to terminate the intol- erable conditions in Mexico. Indica- tions that Europe might find it neces- sAry to act an it's own account, led to consideration on the part of this gov ernment of the question of issuing a general and formal statement definitely setting forth it's attitude not only to- ward Mexico but also toward all such problems, which are, unfortunately, of too frequent origin in the western hemisphere. President Wilson seems, however to have concluded that it is not necessary yet at least to issue such a statement. He has, to a certain ev tent, covered the ground in two recent speeches. One was at SWarthmOre Pa on the occasion of the cOmmemOr- ation of Founders Day at Swarthmore college In extolling the spirit with which William Penn sought to estab- fish "a free commonwealth" in Ameri- ca, the president said that the pro feSsed purpose of American conquest was to see to it that every foot of that land should be the home Of free self governed people. who should have no government whatever which did not rest upon the consent of the governed" And then he added this sentence. with it's signally significant bearing upon the Mexican problem:
 T would like to believe that all this hemisphere is devoted to the same sac red purpose, and that nowhere can any government endure which is stained by blood or supported by anything but the consent of the governed"
 From SWarthmore the president went to Mobile Ala. where, in an address before the Southern Commercial con gress, the president supplemented his PennsYlvania speech. Tn a general dis cussion of the Latin-American situa- ton and problem. he said:
 The development of constitutional liberty and world human rights. the maintenance of national integrity as against material interest-that is our creed.
 T want to take this occasion to say. too, that the United States will not again seek to secure one additional foot of territory by conquest
 Tt will devote herself to showing an honest and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national comity."
 While the president in making this pledge regarding the future action of the United States undoubtedly voices the present sentiment of a vast major ity of American citizens, it was inevit- able that it should be pointed out promptly that not only the circum- stances under which he made this dec- laratiOn were very different from those obtaining when President Monroe de- clared the famous doctrine which ev- CT since has borne his name, but also that the president has no power to give such pledge and make it binding upon this country. Congress has on a few occasions undertaken to give pledges of that character The one
 
 beginning of the Spanish War has been kept, but the famous Crittenden reso- lution. adopted at the outbreak of the Civil War, endured hardly a year.
 A new complication has been added to the Mexican problem by the granting of asylum to General Felix Diaz, who took refuge in the American consulate at Vera Cruz with some of his follow CTS and was transferred to one of the United States battleships. This act, while undoubtedly one of humanity, and probably the only means of saving General Diaz from Huerta's assassins, is in contraventiOn of diplomatic pre- cedent international law and naval regulations. Tn his famous and author itative work on international law, MT. John Bassett Moore. counselor of the state department, cites a number of presidents which up to this time have controlled directly against such action. I It could not be done in the case of a powerful country disposed. as Huerta is. to make trouble. but this is a place where might makes right"