The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-12-12
WILL CONTINUE
WATCHING POLICY
Erorta's Tower Crumbling, Says
The President in His Address
To Congress.

That there can be no peace in Mex
leo until the hold of llucrta upon the
rCins of government is lroken is the
emphatic and official statement of
President Wilson, made in his address
to congress last Tuesday. That the
United states stands ready to break
that hcl l. il the Constitutionalists are
innahlc to dp IL fer then selves. but that
IL is Improbable such action from the
| United States viii over be required,
are also presidential opinions embed cd
IN the address. That section of the
addt'ss, which took the place of the
usual message, dealing with the Mcxi-
van situation, says:
The One Cloud
"Thorc is but one cloul upon our
( horizon That has shown itscf 10 the
south of us, and hangs over Mexico,
1 rhcrc can he no certain prospect of
pcacc in Anne lea until General Ilucrta
las surrendered his usurped authority
in MeNico; until it is understood on
all hands, indeed, that such pretended
! cove nmCn.s viii not be countenauccd
or dealt with by The government of the
| United States. We IRE the friends OF
constitutional, government in America;
| we aye more than its friends, we arr
| its chrmp' ons; ceause in no other WY
eau cur ne'ghhors to whom we would
wish IN every way tn palic proof of
our friendship, work ont their own de.
vclopmcnt in peace and liberty. Mex.
! leo las no government. The at empt to
maintain one at the City of Mexico has
BROKEN down, and mere military dos
rotism has cen set M which has hardly
NOR than the scmblancc of national au.
thoritv. II orig mated in the usurpa-
ton of Nictoriano lIucrta, who, after
n brief attempt to play the part of con.
stitutional President, has M last cas-,
aside even the pretensc of legal right
and declared himself dictator.
CAS- a consequence, ~ condition of
affairs now exists in Mexico which has
made il doubtful whether even the most
elementary aud fundamental rights
either of her own people or of the citi
Zens of other countries resident within
her territory can long be successfully
safegualdcd, and which threatens, II
long continued, to impcril the interests
of peace, order and tolerablo life in tn,
| lhNIN llhHPulHIPlN 10 the south OF MS
Even II the usurpcr had succeeded IL
his purposes. in despite of the cous.i
tuition Of the Re2ul lie and the right,
of its people, he would have set NJ
nothing ut rrecariouS aud hateful
power, which could have lasted bat 4
little while, and whose eventual down
fall wouli have left the country in
, more DEF lorable condition than ever.
g l'nt he has not succeeded He ha,
forfeited the respect and the moral sup
port even of those who were at on,
: TIM" willing to see him succeed LHtl
by little he has been completely iso
lated. BY little every day his powc
and prestige are crumbing and the eel
I. lapse is not far away. We shall not
F., | believe, be obliged TO alter our polio,
of watchful waiting. And then, whei
l the end comes, we shall hope to So
: constitutional order restored in dis
tressod Mexico by the concert and en-
e crgy Of such of her leaders as prefc
: the liberty Of their people to their owl
. ambitions.