Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-03-20
WORST OF PUZZLES
MEXICAN PROBLEM is MOST AN
MOVING TO CONGRESS AND
ADMINISTRATION.
NO ONE SEES THE SOLUTION
President Still Sticks to "Watchful
Waiting and Can Find No Sign
That the People Demand
Armed Intervention.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

by GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington Mexican prob
lem is worrying the administration
greatly, and this is known to be
fact although Mr.. Wilson keeps up a
brave face and insists that his policy
of watchful waiting in the end will
win. The members of congress ire
spective OF party say that the admin
istration's problem also is their prob
lem, and that while all of them may
not agree with what the president is
doing, patriotism will make them
stand back of him as long as there
is reason in his course"
No administration probably ever
was confronted by so puzzling a prob
lem as that which now looms before
Woodrow Wilson in the country south
of the Rio GranGe. The shadow of a
great big question mark lies athwart
the White House and the capitol.
The thought of Intervention is abhor-
rent to the administration, to con-
gress and probably to the American
people. General Wood believes that
it would take 100000 men to do the
initial fighting in Mexico and then to
garrison the country. The arms
which have been sent into Mexico
from the United States for the use OF
the federals on the one side and OF
the constitutionalists on the other
probably would be used against the
invading army and American soldiers
he NV NIFao
Americans put into the hands of the
Mexicans.
Officials here think there is no pop
eular demand for invasion of Mexico
The attitude of the country toward
war seems to have changed within
the last fifteen or twenty years. Pop
ular opinion, it is generally believed,
sent our army into Cuba and our navy
into Cuban waters in the year 1898.
The administration, which keeps its
hands on the pulse of the people,
apparently does not feel there the
throb which denotes a demand that we
intervene to save the Mexican stu
alton"
No One Knows What to DO.
Lacking Intervention, what shall
the United States do? The wisest
heads in the foreign relations commit
tee affairs of the senate and in the
kindred committee of the house ap-
parintly contain not even the germ of
a thought which put into words and
then into action might bring happy
ANSWER to the pressing question. No
oneI In official position knows what
to do. The tension has become such
thatI unquestionably every man in Of
fetal life in Washington hopes that a
day will bring forth something which
will force some kind of peaceful ac-
tionH which will bring about a settle
menk No administration official and
no kOficial outside of the adlninistra-
tiorN Apparently wishes to intervene in
Me &dco, but actually there are men
on Hthe verge of turning loose a de-
mar I'D for intervention simply to end
the doubt and anxiety of the present
occ; ksion.
president Wilson took high moral
gro find when he refused to recognize
HueErta. He is still on moralitys noun
tainH and he cannot get down without
riskting the neck of the administration.
Internationally Mr.. Wilson was led
to lbelieve that Carranza and Villa
werE, by comparison with Huerta,
gentlemen Of high aims, tender con-
scielnces and patriotism which con-
cerlfs itself with the good Of its COM
mo1k people Enough has happened
RECENTLY to give the administration
y SECOND thought on the subject, but
second thoughts are of no service, be-
cause if high moral ground is the
proper station for the American adj
ministration when viewing Huerta, it
is alse- the proper ground for the
viewing of Carranza and Villa.
No Official Wants Intervention.
Congressman say, I'VE are not get
ting anywhere" IF there were only
some way out of it, say the members,
and they look into each others faces
hoping to see there some CLEAN of
enlightenment, but not a spark Is
struck. We won't, and we can't. let
foreign nations settle 1t. We cannot
settle it quickly ourselves without
sending an army into the southern
country to meet the consolidated
forces (for they would be consolidate
ed) of Huerta, Carranza and villa
armed with rifles sent into Mexico for
the purpose Of settling civil war.
No official here wants it settled this
way.
Huerta, Carranza and Villa are
looking at Uncle Sam across the dis
tances and saying What are you go
ing to do about it?" and each one of
them knows that Uncle Sam does not
know what he is, going to do about it.
He wishes he did.
President a Fast Worker.
a Republican senator, one of high
standing in his party, said the other
day that he had been at the White
House to see the president on bust
ness four times since last March and
that not once had he been asked to
sit down. But" added the senator.