The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-10
Mr.. LIMBS PROSPECT.

There will be little envy among
even the most eager place seeker fol-
the office which Ex-Governor JOIN
Lind OF Minnesota, has taken at tn;
hands of President Wilson an offict
of definition but exceedingl,
interesting of development. Just wha
Is to be Mr.. Lind's statue in Mckee
depends good deal upon the dispo
sition II General Victoriana Huerts
self appointed and precarieusly sup
ported president OF Mexico. and tn
dependence upon General Huerta.
pleasure Is not the most promIsin,
Of fortunes. The Mexican presiden
has indicated that he will have moth
ing to do with Mr.. Lind and that, III
point of fact, he regards him as Col
onel Roosevelt regarded the Late +
II. Hartman, as an undesirable" per.
son. 1t has even been suggested tina
he may refuse President Wilson's req.
resentative the freedom of Mexico
and have him sent back to this coun
try. That would be a very drastic
proceeding and one that even Huerta
Is unlikely to indulge, but is scent
reasonably probable that he will re
fuse to see Mr.. Lind, If that gentle
man should seek audience with him
and he may make himself SO disagree
able and even discourteous to tn,
american missionary Is hardly
correct to call him an envoy in the
diplomatic sense, since he goes witt
with no other commission than til
presidents personal confidence and in
struction-a as to raise a rather serious
issue, most exciting to the LIMOGES OF
two countries. Governor Lind is nc
likely to be disturbed by the refusa
of the provisional president to receive
him and, actually, he may give the
opportunity for such refusal. Mos
probably he will make no applicable.
for audience at the presidential palace
He Is not going to Mexico with that IL
his mind at all. He is going non.
nally as adviser to the legation
which is without head since the ac
eeptance OF Ambassador Wilson.
resignation, and to ascertain all thai
he can Of the state of affairs anC
mind in Mexico. The attitude of HUI
erta toward him will be one of tn,
significant exhibits Of the situation
and report on 1t will contribute
very greatly to the illumination o
conditions 10 the mind OF Prssiden
Wilson.
For all that 1t must not be lost sigh
Of that President Wilson is playins
rather bold as well as novel hant
in the dispatch of representative t
Mexico on mission which he is ad
vised will be distasteful to the rule
os that racked country, and the oNt
come OF it will be worth watchng
MIR. Wilson is an unusually self-con
tanned and forceful minded Statesman
and has his own ideas of what shoul,
| be attempted and what purpose
should be served by seemingly DARN
proceedings, and he has record Q
remarkable successes from we'll vel
cd but fully planned undertakings
! he doubtless knows Just what he j
after in the dispatch of MIR. Lind, an
he has the valuable quality of bein
able to keep his counsel and to hid
his intentions until the right momen
for exposing them. When Governo
Lind arrives In Mexico everybody
including of what the policy of thi
country toward Mexico will be an
what results are likely TO be brougf
about from It. And still moro wi
appear when and according to tn
order in which Mr. Lind returns frol
his mission.