Lower coast gazette., 1913-10-18
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1s, 1913.
Dictators: Wilson and Huerta.

Dictators: Wilson and Huerta.
81 SOME of President Wilson's ardent admirers
are beginning to praise him because ne does
things. It is manifest to the people OF the
country that he is forcing his views upon con-
.gress and using every means under his control
to secure from congress such legislation as ne
may desire. This has been accomplished IN the
matter of the tariff bill just enacted that pract-
.ically destroys the American domestic sugar IN
dustry and with an equally high hand ne car
RES his personal views in every direction open
to him. It is a we'll known fact that the SEN
ators and congressman throughout the country
are the presumed counsellors and controllers OF
the political appointments throughout the coun-
try, the president having the right OF making
the appointments, but counselllng with them IN
regard thereto. The common belief now is that
anv recalcitrant congressman is sent for, spoken
to and counselled as to the expediency OF his
cooperating with the president in every possible
way. presumably offending the president II ne
does not, and with that offending, alternating the
president so that the local appointments that
the congressman might secure for their friends
in their own districts might go in opposing eli
%rections. In other words, President Wilson IS
now administering the United States govern
ment in a manner unparalleled before the ad-
vent of Theodore Roosevelt, and now in a man
ner somewhat similar to Roosevelt's most ag-
gressive actions, outside of the law, and such as
@,,,,, -, ~ ~ ~ oo,,topnp1otod IN tho OrO1rJ.
cation of our government. 1t was the Roose-
welt disposition to be a dictator that caused his
downfall and now we find that President Wilson
is even more earnest, more aggressive ana more
able Intellectually than was Colonel Roosevelt in
what he desires to accomplish. He stands to-
day as the dictator of the policy of the United
States, representing the majority Of his W
party, but not all Of that, and representing a
very pronounced minority Of the people of the
United States.
We are led to these reflections by considering
how President Huerta is sec ring his ends In
Mexico. He. too, is going outside Of the law Of
his land and while he claims to be proceeding
within the limits of precedent and OF law, yet
he remains, strangely. unsuccessful in quieting
his country. Senator Dominique attacked the
president and disappeareH It seems that he
babe his family ggot6ug4bNye, made his will and ex-
pected that his life would be taken. One hum
bred and ten members IL the Chamber of Dep
! lties signed resolutions of warming to Gen.
Victoriana Huerta because of the disappearance
Of Senator D%ominguez, and this led to the ar
rest Of these ITO deputies and at the same time
Gen. Huerta gave orders for a new election on
October 26, coinciding with the presidential cleo
ton. President Huerta declared that these
deputies constituted themselves one of the exc
%cutive's worst enemies, hostile to all his rights,
and invading his jurisdiction, even to the point
Of questioning his selection CT a minister Of
state. He declared that his patience with that
body had been taxed to the limit.
We may say that President Wilson had
many of these grievances also, but he did not
arrest our American congressman who opposed
him, although he may have held up the appoint
ments they desired. President Huerta had 200
policemen on hand when he arrested the 10
deputies and they were taken to the %peniten-
tiary and there imprisoned.
This frantic effort Of Huerta's to maintain
himself in position in Mexico has not been re-
peated by Wilson in Washington, although the
world looks on aghast and wonders why Presi-
dent Wilson is doing. those things that George
Washington would have feared to have done
with congress when he was president of the
United States.
Comparing Huerta and Wilson it is manifest
that they are both practically dictators Of their
respective countries, but that in Mexico where
armed military bands are traversing the coun.
try, where the government itself has been
seized by the present dictator, affairs are much
more chaotic than they are in this country,
where our minority president is overthrowing
the institutions, and we may say the civiliza.
ton Of a century, regardless Of such ~constitu.
tional restrictions as have hitherto been gen.
orally obeyed. In this country a man that has
q claim against the government cannot get il
paid without an act of congress, and in fact in
all public matters that are done under the SO.
called law, the law is made by congress, the
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