Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-27

! convince these people that any govern
ment erected by Mexicans can be made
strong enough to resist revolution and
to put down disorder
Split by IncurabIe Factions.
There is not faction in Mexico that
believes the Huerta administration can
| live any longer than they wish it to
| live
And they are right for 1t would take
Huerta at least a decade Of hangings,
executions and assassinations TO intim-
idate the Iawless elements of Mexico
into the belief in his power to maintain
order and to protect the public inter
est
AS with Huerta, so with any man
that takes his place. Mexico is liter
ally split to pieces by incurable fac
lions and irreconcilable guerrillas, who
can never be brought to contentment
or acceptance until the people own the
land of Mexico.
II is the consciousness of this fact,
forced upon hating senators and timid
representatives, and the irresolute adj
ministration. which clears their vision
to the inevitable certainty of interVen
ton and, ultimately, of annexation.
To tell the truth about It, the great
majority, both of senators and repre-
sentatives, have not trace of the war
spirit in them The South, quick in old
en- times to resent a national reflection
and fairly pulsing with the national
spirit. has grown so stepped in mate
rialism and industrial growth that it is
almost impossible to awaken national
sentiment
Let me apologize to the Southern
people. 1t is not they, but their repre-
sentatives who have fallen victims OF
the disease of material development.
1t is quite as much so with the peo-
pie Of the West and of the East.
Any aspersion upon our countrys
power or its honor would be resented
everywhere by the people and any ap-
peal to that sentiment meets an instant
and overwhelming response from the
people. But there are representatives
in both houses who appear to be posi-
lively callous to the stir of the national
spirit to the sentiment of national hon
or or to the infringement of a great
national doctrine.
Visitors Responsible, If Killed.
A senator very close to the next ad-
ministration said today that It would
take the last possible necessity to in
duce him to consent to intervention in
Mexico
"It the American ambassador" said
he, should be killed in Mexico | should
have to be thoroughly convinced that it
was not done by the party in power
with direct personal hostility to tho
United States. before would be WILLING
to vote for Intervention.
u believe that the Mexican peopIe
should be left to settle their own prob
lens and to work out their own govern
mental salvation.
IF they have to slaughter and de-
stroy and shock civilization with their
murders and assasslnations, that Is
their concern, not ours
III any of our people or any foreiqn
people are killed and their property de-
stroyed, it is a responsibility which they
took when they went to Mexico and in
vested in Mexico, and they ought to ac-
oept the responsibility of their own lack
Of judgment and discretion in aono
there"
Little American" Spirit.
This senator of the United States
great in power and prestige, eloquent
and learned. was thus shamelessly will
Ing to destroy the whole theory OF a
nations protection to its citizens, dear
to every honorable government on
earth. and was as serene about il as If
he were discussing a cold business
proposition in which one country had
made a contract with another and
ought to keep 1t.
This is the bloodIess spirit of the
little Americans" which is giving rise
TO this cowardly and reasonable talk
of the abandonment or amendment of
the Monroe Doctrine
1t is a natural growth of the great
mammon worship which is abroad in
the land. The mention of this sena-
tors name would give extraordinary
menace and force to the discussion in
which he takes a part
Lodge Denounces the Treason.
ne IL Sdlu ~ HIS tiNull lIldl lltHtS
Cabot Lodge. Of Massachusetts, whom
We have had occasion to critiCise in
this paper, was one American senator
who openly and sternly denounced the
discussion Of such a proposition as
reasonable and absurd
Another great Democratic senator
| from the South declared that such a
proposition amounts to the abandon
| ment of American pre- emnence on the
| continent. That it is a confession of
! national weakness and of national
cowardice which would ruin the coun-
| try"
The senator who said this went
! further and told me that he had long
been in favor of our owninq Lower
California, and that within the last
few days he had come to the conclu