The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-08-23
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The Mexican Situation

AS | write these lines, the country
is awaiting in anxiety Huerta's act
ion on the arrival of Governor Lind
in Mexico The necessary retirmenG
of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson
rendered it imperative that Nelson
O'Shaughnessy. Secretary of the
American embassy and Charge d'Af-
flares, should have at hand a wise
and able counsellor in any emer-
gency which the present conditions
in Mexico may impose upon this
government. President Wilson could
have selected no better man for, this
delicate and difficult miseion, than
Governor Lind of Minnesota
THE effort OF section of the Amer
lean press, aided by certain Ameri-
cans, to force the Administration TO
recognize the Huerta government or
embroil us in a war with Mexico is
reprehensible in the last degree.
Back of this organization are power
full interests ready to coin che lives
of our soldiers or the honor OF our
country into the fortunes which they
have at stake in, their Mexican con
cessions. These interests were ac-
quired under the Diaz government.
Against the tyranny and opprea
sion of that government the people
revolted under the leadership of the
progressive and patriotic Madero
For years they had suffered unspeak
able horrors under a military despot
ism maintained by political fraud
and at the point of the bayODet.
Every constitutional guarantee for a
republican form of government WAS
violated; every statute for the pro
lection of life and property was
ignored. Men, women and children
were enslaved. Political prisoners
were held in Jail for years without
hope of trial by court or jury. Every
movement for organized protest
marked its leaders for assass nation.
Two years ago when it was appar
ent that the Madero revolution was
about to succeed. the same Special
Interests which are exploiting the
American people, fearing that their
Diaz, concessions might be je9pardiz-
ed. through the section of the press
| which they control in this tolIntry
| clamored for interrogation by his
| governlnent. How. nearly they came
to carrying the Taft Administration
| Off dts feet in those March days the
| public will never know. Al large
| number was rushed to the Mexican
border. The American people We're
finally aroused to the threatened daT
ger. Public sentiment would not
| sanction the employment of Ameri
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directly or indirectly to crush Ma
derO. The peril that menaced oul
peace was averted for the time.
Maderc finally triumphed. He es
tabisbed an orderly government fol
that disturbed country. He was dul!
elected President. He made progress!
and Instituted many reforms. Ill,
was opposed by the old interests
Revolts were ouraged-fmanced
IL is alleged, by American I none!
furnished by those who werd in sill
ent partnership with the Diaz covert
mont ,.4 4.
| Madero was finaly betrayed AM
It is alleged murdered by order o
Huerta who set himself up ds tn,
ruler of Mexico. The people iof Mex
| lcO FeNOittu. ne states OF fopnOTh
| Chihauhau,. Coahuila; in fact all o
the, lorthern. petition Of the lcountr.
are In sG3is- and the lIuerta govern
ment has praQtically no control il
] hig territofa-
Eyer sincS the murder OF Nader,
land sheesfPbelion which followed
there has been "a demand for inter
vcntlun by the United States. .Thi
demand comes from the same sourc
es which were so insistent for inter
vention to sustain the elder Diaz.
The United States has not recog
nzed Huerta. The American people
afide from the few who have finan
cial and speculative interests in Mex
leo. sustain President Wilson in thi!
action. They are chagrined at the
part which Henry Lane Wilson, tn,
depcsed minister to Mexico, played
in the game which resulted in sub
stituting the bloody usurper and dc
spoiler for the peaceable, patriotic
and constructive Madero as the rul
er of Mexico. Senator Robert NJ La
Toilette.