Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-05
j. s. IS CRITICISED
BY GERMAN PRESS
Our Policy Toward Mexico Is
Bitterly Attacked in Ber-
lin Newspapers.
BELIEVE HUERTA IS READY
TO FIGHT THE AMERICANS
Motives of Washington Govern
ment Are Impugned as Ben
citing Only Standard Oil.

BERLIN. Nov. 5.-Though the atti-
tude of tho German government
toward the American policy toward
Mexico continues TO be entirely cor
rect and loyal, German opinion, as re-
Elected in press comment on the re-
! ported ultimatum, is uneompromis-
ingly hostile. II is necessary to bark
, back to the days of the Spanish
American war to find counterpart
of the abuse now being leveled at the
United States.
This is not confined to any one Sec
I ton of the press or to the professedly
, anti american elements like the Pan
Germans, and Is most bitter In Liberal
4 organs such as the Berliner Tage-
|, blatt, the Vosslsche Zeitung and the
: Borsen Courier.
Editorials in these journals last
night all intimate that the American
procedure in Mexico Is a hypocriticai,
freebcoting policy, conceived mainly
! IN the interests of the Standard OIL
Company. Nowhere is there sem
. blance Of appreciation of the restraint
s that President Wilson exercised or
: an expression OF hope that the ex-
IRENE measures nof reported to nave
Y been found necessary may be sue
cessful. There is, indeed, an under
, tone Of malicious hope that they Will
end In a humiliatlng flasco.
some of the Extracts.
The following extracts indicate the
trend of the anti American express
sions The Tageblatt says:
EVERY Mexican knows that the
] final goal of the American policy is
I 10 impose a more or less yelled pro-
Z tcctcrate over the republic which
stands between the United States and
I the other already half-yoked states
bordering on the Panama canal.
sHuerta is not q sympathetic per-
{ sonality. but the fact remains that
, this immoral man, against whom
( this ex-professor of Princeton wants
TO mobilize a quarter of a million
J troops, is just the strong man whom
Mexico needs at this hour. He would
have restored order II he had been
let alone, and the foreign commercial
interests in Mexico, with the excep-
ton of those of the Standard Oil
Company, would have Jared best.
ut is by no means certain that
American public opinion underesti-
mates, as President Wilson does, the
gravity of the military enterprise on
which he is about to enter" ..'..5.
The Vossische Zeitung says:
Pres dent Wilson may well have
issued reluctantly an ultimatum
which is not designed to evoke special
Joy anywhere except in the camp Of
the Standard Oil Company. Some
such action was necessary. because
the precarious prestige of the United
States in the eyes of other republics
south of the RIO Grande is nt stake.
'Huerta clearly recognizes the
perils which the Mexican game in
wolves for his northern neighbor He
has hitler TO done what he has
pleased, with little regard for the
Wild West tone that has echoed
;sefoss his northern Frontier. That he
has succeeded to a certain degree Is
revealed by the Lind tragi COMEDY.
which began with thunder and light.
ming and ended in an ingior'ous fizzle
"Huerta's surrender is now hardly
conceiva BILE. lie is much more likely
10 let Uncle Sam bite into the sour
apple"
The Borsen Courier says
THE webbing, aimless Mexican
policy of the United States has al
most made American diplomacy the
-3aughing stock of the world Huerta
can hardly be blamed for ignoring
Uncle Sans ultimatum as another of
these North American utterances be-
hind which there is no determination
10 substitute deeds for words.
Sovereignty Alleged Purpose.
The underlying motives of Ameri-
can policy are to rob Mexico Of po-
Ethical independence. but primarily of
economic sovereignty If washing
ton desired merely the restoration of
order IL would have recognized Huer-
ia long ago"
The Berliner Neueste Nachrichten
which is usually dramatically OPP
posed TO the Liberal and Radical
journals quoted in the foregoing, says:
- "Apparently the Yankees now think
they have encircled the Mexican
.iaruar Huerta on all sides. and that
the time has arrived to deliver him a
vital blow. With an ostensibly In
vincible army ON the frontier and a
feet of battleships at Vera Cruz, the
glorious Bryan who was going to adj