The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1914-06-24
Wilson and Mexico.

Henry WattersOn in the Louisville
Courer-.Journal: The dividing line be.
tween the United States and Mexico
extends from ocean to ocean, nearly
| 1000 miles. It's entire length has been
time out OF mind mcnaccd not only
by vcxatiOn. disorders and outlaWry,
but by actual pllagc and murder.
The provOcation to armed intcrvcn-
ton has been and is cumulOus. All
| nations have suffered from the break
down of law and order in Mexico, we
most of all, so that if we had said,
or should say, these evil conditions
must stOp--thcy have become intoler-
ablc-the world would acquiesce. Our
failure to speak such word, drawing
the sword to make it good, has but
stirred in the McXicans contempt and
invited them to continued outrage.
They know but one law-the law of
torce-and they have seen in our in
action only immunity in outlawry.
No government has any right to put
such burden upon its own people
under declarations of philanthropy
which are specious in themselves and
which brigands and cut threats can
never understand. The whole twaddle
about loving the Mexicans" and
"emancipating the poems" and cstab-
fishing juctice through brotherhood
and righteousness ION earth as it is
in heaven" is Pigment of millennal
dream having not the rclnOtest appli-
cation to mundane affairs and effec-
tive craftsmanship.
Equally SO is Mr. Wilson's talk
about not taking foot in Mexican
territory. AS much of it as we may
want was long ago oreitcd to wfan-
ton violation of good neighborhOod.
AS much of it as we may want we
should take-cspecially if we would
|hclp the MeXicans- they
would be infinitely better off as Amer
lean citizens than as Mexican robbers
and victims. If the president loves
out Of the wct-thc wet OF blood ana
terror-and begin that march OF man
ifest destiny which will only end at
the isthmus, if it does not ultimately
reach to the Andes. But, shall we
spend hundreds OF millions without
indemnity?
| If we had taken over the whole Of
Mexico in 1S4S, when we had military
occupation of the entire country, the
region between the Rio Grande and
the Pacific would be today rs civil
lied and peaceful as are those parts
of it. Texas, Arizona and Upper Cal
ifornia, which we did take over.
The president, as we have SO often
said is too much Influenced by the pro-
tressional uplift crowd. Most Of them
Fare survivals from the muck rake
crowd of a dozen years ago. The
cheap magazines found that muck rak-
ing would no longer pay, if it did, and
so they turned to uplift.
1t is full of fads and fances. Mr..
Bryan, working overtime to get next
years Noble prize-$3O,00O at one
sweet swoop- has been hellbent on
sprouting wings; but 80 Mr.. Wilson
should have a care that the dove of
peace does not pick his eyes out. AL
ready he has allowed the cant and
hypocrisy OF uplift to cut him off from
a popular volition which would, if he
gave it chance, turn to enthusiasm.
quite drowning the voice of the polit-
ical free hooters and the psychologist
cOnspiritors who are seeking to dis
credit his administration by every
manner of device known to the old
| robber barons of protectionism and the
new invisible chcvaiers of high fl
nance camping on his trail both in
and out of congress. Il