The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-02-08
Intervention INEVITABLE.
Time Is Not Far Distant When the
United states VIII be Compelled to
Send Armies Into Mexico

We clip the following from the Mi
ami Herald:
BY the favor of a friend who was
aid has been in position TO keep
fairly well posted as TO affairs in that
troubled and troublesome country.
Recent copies of the Mexican Herald,
published in Mexico City. give a view
OF the situation there that cannot be
obtained in any American paper, owing
to the strict censorship maintained on
all telegraphic news by the Madero
government. sss---==
From those papers it can be readily
ascertained that nothing less than
anarchy prevails all over the country
Of Mexico, Columns are given TO the
relation of the movement of troops, of
outTages committed against towns,
villages and ranches, murders and the
kidnapping of young women by whole
sale.
That all this leads to intervention
and the reorganization of the Mexican
government by the strong arm of the
American government is inevitable.
Senator William Alden Smith, who is
head of the committee appointed by
Mexico. has returned to Washington
and will. in all probability, soon make
his report. That report, it is now in
timated, will startle this country.
Some of the sittings of the commit
tee have been held in New Orleans,
and just before leaving that city last
week, Senator Smith was interviewed
by reputable newspaper.
Dnripo his in, Nv
Smith was accompanied by Fenton S.
McCreary, former first secretary of
embassy in Mexico City, and afterward
promoted to the rank of minister in
the diplomatic service of the United
States. Mr. McCreary has retired from
the diplomatic service but as an expert
assistant to Senator Smith in his In
vestigation. Senator Smith and Mr.,
McCreary were quoted in the New Or
leans Item as follows;
my report will be startling to say
the least" said Senator Smith as he
left the st, Charles hotel shortly be-
fore noon Friday to take the train for
Washington. TT will lay bare mas
sacres and murders of Americans. de-
struotion of their property and whole
sale killings of other foreigners
throughout Mexico. 1t will tell of out
RACES which, owing to the strict CEN
sorship maintained by Madero over
press and telegraph, have never been
revealed to the outside world
''The people of the United States
said eX-Minister McCreary, the Latin
American expert, who has been here as
an aide to Senator Smith, do not know
of the horrible conditions existing in
Mexico. The picturesqueness of the
Balkan war has driven interest in the
atrocities committed against their own
countrymen in the next-door republic
to the south, clear out of their minds.
But when the report of this investiga-
tion is presented 1 can not see anything
for the government and the people of
the United States to do, but to arouse
themselves and put an end to these
crimes in Mexico.
"The only apparent end to the trou-
BILE across the border is reorganization
of the country by the United States"
And that" was asked, means in
tervention, does it not?"
That seems to be the answer" re-
piled the diplomat. Whatever may be
the shortcoming of President Madero,
the people of Mexico have had an op-
portunity to build for themselves a
free eountry-presuppos that the
rebels contention Of the despotism of
Diaz is correct. In this they have
failed, miserably, and from testimony
adduced before the committee it ap-
pears that the Madero government has
been going rapidly from bad to worse,
so that now it has no chance of getting
control of the situation
In that event, some strong armed
power must take hold of the nation
and people and straighten them out?''
Precisely" answered Mr.. McCreary,
as he stepped into a taxicab to be
whirled away to the train.