The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-29
none Of our business how that fact
came TO be such.
TO YOUR HOMES, AMERICANS!

to Americans in Mexico to come home.
is. in effect, warning to them that
if they do not heed this notice they
will have to look out for themselves
and take the consequences Of the dis
regard which they show towards the
President s call. 1t is practically q
notice to all Americans there that the
it can personally and actually aid or
protect them as long as they stay IN
Mexico.
This is sad state Of affairs. but it
is the legitimate result of President
Wilson's s error in refusing to recognize
the Huerta government, and demand
ing that n government that will meet
his views must be set up in Mexico 1t
is a curious position for an American
President to put himself in when he
says, as President Wilson virtually
says. that a government in Mexico to
meet his views must be subject to rules
laid down by himself, He takes no ac-
count Of Mexican history and Mexican
in Mexico during the lifetime of Presi-
dent Wilson, who has not obtained the
Presidency by violence. There is not
likely TO be any during the remainder
Of the time that President is to live.
Why, therefore, does he all at once lay
down a rule that there must be no vio-
lence in connection with the establish
ment Of government in MeXico7 He in
ssts that the Mexican procedure with
regard to the filling Of the Presidential
office must be practically the same as
that in the United States. 1t has never
been even measurably the same, and Is
not likely to be. Porfirio Diaz came to
the Mexican Presidency by violence;
Madero oustcd him by violence; Huer-
ta came in by violence, and now large
faction of the Mexican people want to
depose Huerta and put somebody else
In by violence. 1t is curious state Of
affairs TO have an American President,
one who is directly n party follower
of Jefferson, who declared distinctly
that we must not interfere In the do
mestic policies Of any foreign nation
nor get into entangling alliances with
any. to take this superior attitude to-
ward Mexico.
IT will doubtless be a great hardship
to hundreds of Americans to obe7 this
call of President Wilson g to get out of
Mexico and come home. Large mum
bers Of them will be unable to do so,
even by the help that he 30 freely ex-
tends, and in the case Of many it is
true that to leave Mexico
would involve financial ruin But
Americans in Mexico must obey this
call, or they will be left to themselves
without American protection. Indeed,
it is difficult to see in what way we
could afford protection to Americans
that remain in Mexico; for the menace
TO Americans in Mexico is not from the
established government Of Huerta, nor
from any of the official agencies of the
Mexican Federal administration. The
peril is from insurrectos, bandits, and
whom Huerta cannot control
and whom ne is doing his best to put
down. With the open and candid sup
port of the United States, he could
make much better progress in doing
this than ne will be able to do in the
case Of the hostility toward him open
ly manifested by the present admins
tration Of the United States. It is
bad business all around, and appears TO
be getting worse and worse all the
time.
The recognition OF Huerta by our
government would clear the air at once,
and would have powerful effect in
putting down the disturbances in that
country; but President Wilson insisted
on undertaking TO inject a political
calmness and morality in Mexican poll
ties which has never been known there,
and as long as he continues this setting
up Of moral law and guide for the
Mexican people, we shall have to take
our chances Of the pillage and murder
of Americans in Mexico by those ire
sponsible brigauds and murderers,