The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-26
MEXICAN PRESS
 IS ALL FOR PEACE
Courtesy to Northern Guests Is Urged Tn Columns of
 Influential Newspapers

International relations. or to be spe-
 cific, the relation of Mexico and the
 United States, have been the chief
 subject for discussion in the Mexican
 newspapers for several weeks. From l time to time extracts from editorials | in the principal newspapers of the | Southern Republic have been tele- graphed to the United States, indicat-
 ing @, most be1Iigerent disposition The quotations have been correct, but they have failed to give the correct idea of 1 the situation, says the New York Eve ming Post.
 No allowance has been made for the | horid and poetic style to which the | Spanish tongue so admirably lends it. i self; no allowance has been made for 1 the jingo. spirit of which this country
 has no monopoly; nor in the excerpts l telegraphed to this country have the notifications of the context been 1 shown.
 Even the fiery Fl Pals strongly ad- l vocates peace. No newspaper in Mexi- | co displays cowardice in the face of 1 the present complications, but EI In | dependiente speaks of the possibility
 of war as "a grave and horrible dan l ger,'' La Nacion counselS~ ca1mneSs and courtesy; La Tribuna is convinced 1 that North Americans do not desire
 war" The strongest advocate of the
 recognition of Huerta is the Mexican 1 Herald, organ of the American colony. Le Courier du Mexique, one of the | most important repr esentatiVes of the foreign press in the capital endeav- l ors to minimize the Tucson incident
 Extracts from Mexican newspapers l follow:
 | OUGHT NOT PROVOKE WAR" Now Mexico ought not to provoke 1 war with the United States, simply I . ,feyS, | our nationality as a free people. Our | attitude ought to be that defined on a 1 certain occasion by Ambassador Gas
 he then was) Calero, in these three
 words: A prudent pride. Rational I patriotism, true patriotism, and if i moderation and prudence, serenity and
 judiciousness entail on the people a 1 great sacrifice, owing to the offence
 received, let us make that sacrifice for | our country's sake: let us be prudent l and moderate, serene and judicious, l for thus we shall be fulfilling our duty
 as patriots.
 A war with the United States is not 1 a matter to be settled in a popular | manifestation, for our independence Is | at stake; and if, owing to an excess
 of the point of honor, an attack be made upon Americans, the conflict will
 supervene, intervention will be a fact | and we shall have to lament then the I horrors of a war, hercer and more
 bitter than any other, only because we did not know how to be prudent
 and serene and because we gave loose 1 rein to an unreflecting patriotic sen | tinent-H Pais.
 TEACHINGS OF HISTORY.
 We ought not to forget the teach ings of history, which are eloquent enough, as for example in the case of | France and Germany, whose terrible ] and disastrous war was due to a mys- 1 tif1cation about some words in an of1- l ciaI telegram It was the last straw on the camePs back; and in the heav- il charged atmosphere of the relations l between the two countries, the incident fired the indammab1e character of the
 French and launched them into all
 armed adventure of which the conse- | Quences were awful
 Irascibility, lack of reflection in sen timents sympathies or aversions, loud 1 and angry voices, may pass in the | multitude but not in the directing classes, and certainly not in the press and never to forget it's high and lweighty role This is what we ask and 1 exnect from all our colleagues.-El l Diario del Hogan.
 REASONS FOR DECOGNIzING HUERTA
 There are as good reasons for the 1 recognition of the Huerta Government at the present time by the w WaSnlnS- | ton Administration as there were for the recognition of Gen. Porhrio Diaz' s I Government by President Hayes in | 1877.
 It is no time for fnespun scruples- 1 Mexico is like house on fire, and i prompt action Is necessary. We are | all of us, theoreticallysa least, In fa-
 yor of strictly constitutional govern 1 unent. but looking at things as they l really are no sensible man will say l that a strict adherence to the consti- tuition is practicable. The prospect of 1 a. fair presidential election in existing l circumstances, or even as the case may be by the last of October. is de- 1 ckdedly dubious.
 | 1>ne crying need of Mexico ts 6 firm and progressive administration of af- | fairs, in order that honest and we'll I disposed citizens may attend to their | business, and that all those who have | suffered by the civil war may under 1 take the restora ton of their shattered 1 fortunes And the only hope of the realization of this modest programme lies in backing up the existing Fed eral administration.-The Mexican | Herald.
 1 OUR GUESTS FROM THE NORTH.
 It is not right to allow passions to l run. loose in the columns of a news paper or indignation to shout itself hoarse in the street. for there is nc