The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-09-12
LONDON PAPERS
DOLEFUL VIEWS
Criticism of Policy Calling for
Americans to Leave Mexico
and Abandon Property.

LONDON, August 2s.-Tbe tone of
English press comment on the Wilson
message is not hopeful of a speedy
adjustment of the Mexican situation.
the Times, in an editorial contendinr
that the message, while admirable i'm
tone and worthy Of President Wilson s
reputation as peace advocate, has "A
drawback In being Irrelevant to the
main point. The Times proceeds to
ask why the Washington government
rails to take the simple and effective
course, following the European example
oil recognizing President Huerta, and
adds. lit is difficult to resist the sus-
pielon that in emphasizing the personal
objections to President Huerta the
American government is ieopardizimg
ITS best chance of assisting the coun.
try of which he is the effective ruler"
The Pail Mall Gazette says:
- We fully understand that President
Wilson's message is born of the travail
of his soul. He is good and devout
man, earnestly DESTROYS of furtherinr
the ideals of peace and Justice, but on
him rests the responsibility of protect
ing not only the interests of the Unit
ed States in Mexico, but the lives of
some thousands of American citizens
who have settled there.
The application of moral force con
slsts in urging all the citizens of the
United States in Mexico to abandon
their occupations and to clear out of
the country, and in proposing measures
which must rest on physical force for
preventing tho entry of arms and NUM-
lions into the country either for Pro.
visional President Huerta or for the re-
bells. We shall watch the result of the
steady pressure of moral force with
much interest, but without much belief
in its success.
Moral Force Needs Backing.
We nave preached many times dur.
ing these past troubled months that
physical force not backed by moral
force is both brutal and futile, but we
are compelled also to accept the con.
verse idea that moral force not backed
by physical force is no less futile and
in consequence is apt to become even
more brutal.
1.-The golden dreamcrs of The Hague
and of the Capitol shrink from recog-
nizing fact so fatal to their theories.
We shall see what Mexico has to teach
them.'
Amateur Diplomacy.
The Evening Standard says: 'Thc
United States, as we have all learned
lately, distrusts amateurishness in
| spores. 1t knows that if you want to
win in any contest You must rely on
the expert and take care that this ex-
| pert knows all the details of his bust
| ness.
1t is, therefore, rather surprising
that the United States does not apply
the same admirable principle TO the
conduct of its public affairs.'
The Standard continues by refer
ence to the singular Inconsistencies
of President Wilson s policy, and says
that Provisional President Huerta is
the only power capable of restoring or
der.
President Wilson S only specific, the
newspaper continues, is strange enough.
1t urges all American citizens in MeXi-
co to leave their railways, their mines,
their Histories and their plantations to
be confiscated or occupied by the in-
habtants.
Such is diplomacy when it falls un-
der the control Of distinguished anna
tours. 1t has only led the United States
into an impasse from which there is no
escape except by those forcible meas
ures to which the pacifst President and
his eloquent secretary of state are so
fervently opposed.
The Daily Mail declares that what
the Washington government most needs
is a policy, and asks whether President
| Wilson suppOses that the American citi-
zens in Mexico, managing utilities rep
resenting $50,000,000 capital, can put
the railways and tramways in their
pockets when they leave or whether
they are to leave them behind. 1t says
that the message should be quite pop
ular in Mexico.
The Morning Post says: president
Wilson will have his hands full if he
sets himself up as the censor of morals
| for the presidents of Latin America. -
The Express says. "Great Britain
has large interests and much to lose
by war, but it is difficult to understand
how British sympathy could be other
wise bestowed than on the United
States.'