The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1914-04-28
Huerta's Perfidies
Are Beyond Belief
w. Bayard Hale, Who Investigated
Mexican Troubles Calls Mex
lean "Ape-Like Indian"
is FLATLY UNRECoGNIzABLE
Upholds President And Lands New
Character Given to United States
By New Administration

erta and unquaHhed approval OF the
course toward Mexico President Will
son has maintained are contained in
an article contributed to the forth
coming number of The Worlds Work
by William Bayard Hale, who was
President Wilson's unofficial investi-
gator of affairs in Mexico.
'1The coup d'etat that overthrow
Madero in February, 1913, was in no
way a revolution" Mr.. Hale says.
at was barracks plot, conspiracy
of few army officers, financed by
cientifcos living in exile and few
Spanish reactionaries. 1t was at
tended by circumstances Of treachery
so execrable, of villainy SO fantastic,
of cruelty so barbarous, that the story
is one which the mind has difficulty
in accepting as credible.
Huerta a Demon
"The chief actor, Huerta, an ape
like Indian, aged, one-eyed, subsist-
ing on brandy, when the moment of
his triumph was fully come, rose
from breakfasting with the presi-
dents brother, beckoned a file of
soldiers, arrested him, had him car
ried away to be shot to death and
his body thrown into hole; went
to the palace, embraced the president,
whose chief commander he had be-
come through protestations of faith
fulness to death, and signaled in
guards to arrest him. By promises
of safe-conduct out of the country,
the treacherous general secured the
signatures of President Madero and
Vice-President Pine Suarez to deeds
of resignation; hastily gathered less
than quorum of congressman in a
chamber filed with soldiers and COM
manded by artillery; had himself
acknowledged as president; carried
/ Madero and Pine Suarez out into the
night and had them shot to death
behind the prison.
Perhaps this is enough to suggest
| that there could be no question of
recognizing Huerta as the head of
lawful government-once it had
been resolved to scrutinize revolu-
tions. But indeed it would surely
have been impossible for tragic rom
ance to have imagined a character so
hideously villainous as Victoriano HUI
erta, or career so completely just
flying the refusal to recognize him.
Not Recognizable
"Other powers made no scruple of
giving the assassin and usurper i'm
mediate recognition. Very well; the
United States is not a follower of
other powers. 1t is, it has been from
the beginning of its history, the NOR
al leader of the world. 1t is the mere
fact that great powers have no con-
sciences-but the United States has
conscience. We are simple peo-
pie, unable to rid ourselves of a pre-
JUDGE against murder. This is hy-
pocrisy, sentimentalism, Quixoticism,
offensive moral superiority, so the
British journals say No, it is not
sentimentalism; it is a plain sturdy
morality, to which, unfortunately, the
foreign politics of too many other
nations are strangers.
"And it is very practical moral
/ ity."
New Interpretation
Mr.. Hale points out an important
development in the character of
American diplomacy. This, he ex-
plains, is an Interpretation of the
Monroe Doctrine, that establishes the
suzerainty of the United States only
as an effective source of moral inspi-
ration over the nations of Central
America and the West Indies.
"The press and the people of Amer
ica," he says, "have not yet awaken
ed to the fact that the first year of
| the Wilson presidency has given the
CHIcu oIdlSS HSN cHdIdSlS6 AIMING
the nations of the world.
Before Mr.. Wilson has been in of
flee week, he had given the Mon
roe Doctrine an Interpretation the
implications of which go far beyond
anything voiced by jefferson, Madi-
SON, Monroe, Quincy. Adams, Polk
Webster, Grant or Olney. Before Mr..
Wilson had been in Office year the
| powers of other continents had yield
ed to the principle of our domination
in the Western hemisphere. 1t is not
fantastical therefore to speak of our
moral empire in America.