The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-16
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WORSE AND woRsE IN MEXICO

/ WOEokif a MI WO6SE LIN RlELA1OS
The attitude of our Government Il
wards Mexico appears to be gettin
moro and more iudcfensihle every day
J The latest declaration from Prcslden
lWilson that this country will no
J recognize the election of October a6tf
is about the limit. What has thi
Government got to do with Mexican
elections? Is not Mexico an indc
pendent nation. standing on its owl
feet and conducting its affairs in it
own wayf If NOT. where is the au
thority TO decide that 10 is not
aud who shall take charge Of tn,
political bankrupt, There is no in
ternational law which provides fol
such bankruptcy. proceedings, and it is
clear case that az assumption oi
control such as this by the United
States Government is both unwar
ranted and sheer intrusion and usur
patton.
Then, again, the. arrest of the Mexi-
can Deputies by Huerta is made AN
occasion for threats. demands, and
denunciation by our Government All
this is good deal like the comic
opera stagings that are shown from
time 10 time in the imaginary and
fantastic display Of governhncntal, pro-
cedure by farcical states The pro-
ceedings Of our Government, if they
were not so deadly perilous, so apt to
get US into an ENHANCEMENT that only
war could straighten out, would have
the appearance Of opera bouffe. The
United States has neither lawful nor
moral protectorate~ over the Mexican
Deputies, and no right whatever to
make any demand at all with respect
to them.
Our Government it appears, protests
also against the assumption Of d.
rectorate by Provisional President
Hucrta Here again, it is impossible
to see where our administration has
the least authority, prerogative, or
function; while the further sugges-
tion that we may recognize the Car
rama insurgency is a proposal for in
ternational crime, nothing less in prin-
ciple than would have been the
of the Southern Con-
federacy by Great Britain and France
during our unfortunate Rebellion.
1t is hard thing to say, but it
really appears as though in this Mexi |
can business both President Wilson |
and Secretary Bryan are absolutely |
demented. They are proceeding on
the assumption that the United States
has supervisory powers over Mexico, |
and that we have a National |
suzerainty over that country which |
s both proper and undisputed. All this
is the mere frenzy Of unauthorized |
and academic diplomacy wholly self
assumed and incendiary. It is not diff
icult to see that the nations of |
he world are getting tired Of all this,
Ind that they are likely to move
IN their own account. without regard |
o what our Government may do or not
10. Germany has already moved and |
threatens to send n German naval
.orce TO the City Of Mexico itself,
lndcr the theory that the German le-
cation in Mexico is in peril; the move
ncnt, If made, being a repetition of
he Chinese precedent when the allied
orccs moved upon Peking. But in this
resent case IT appears that Germany
5 not acting IN concert with the other
ations, but is pursuing an indie
'endent course so far as known.
The awkward, blundering diplomacy
hat we arc pursuing in and toward
leXco Is likely 10 be fruitful of
many and varied pcrils, and danger.
us combinations and situations.
he fooishncss has been pursued so
ar now that IT seems impossible to ret
acl, TO the right basis; especially
lnce our administration has SO fully
ommltted itself TO an academic
heory which has no basis whatever
n international law or actual condi
ions. The outlook is certainly a
loomy ono, and it is likely to dis
lose perils undrcamed of by the
entlemeu Yho so gaiIy. have assumed
uthority over Mexico, for which they
ave no basis whatever in reason,
recedcnt, diplomacy. logic, or in
irrational standing. There would seen,
be but two courses now reasonable
o pursue: One, and this by all
'eans to be preferred, TO Withdraw
together from any negotiations. de-
lands. or mcddliug with Mexico. The
iher, to keep on with our foolish c
nd smateurish nonsense until the II
TSt thing we know we shall find our.
ives engaged in an actual war. alike /
Unnecessary and indefensibIe. :
A NEEDED SPEED UJDIcarop (