Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-02-12

acts of any other power, intends to be
the dominant factor in settling the dis.
turbances in Mexico.
Both Moral and Material Aid.
That Japan has extended both her
moral and material support to Huerta
has been conclusively proved, it is
said. For some time this government
has been endeavoring to ascertain
where Hucrta obtained his military
supplies. That he is well equipped
with guns and ammunition the admin
istration has known. II was supposed
he has been purchasing them in Eu-
rope, but where he obtained the
money has been an unsolvAd mystery.
Ii now is stated that those sinews
OF war have been supplied, not by
Japanese firms willing to take the risk
OF ultimate payment, but by the Jap.
anese government itself. Advices to
this effect, the accuracy of which is
not to be disputed. have been received
in Washington.
These guns consist of the cast-off
equipment of the Japanese troops in
the war with Russia, now out OF date,
but ample for the use OF the Mexican
federal army.
1t is with these arms that the latest
levies OF Mexican troops have been
equipped, and through their use Huer-
ia expects to wrest victory when the
conflict cones between his troops and
the Constitutionalists. now preparing
their plans for their march southwark.
Why Wilson Reversed Himself.
This is the information, it is be-
lleved, that has caused the president
to reverse himself in the matter of
raising the embargo against munitions
OF war for the Constitutionalists from
this country. In no other way can
the Constitutionalists hope to compete
against the superior armament of
Huerta's troops.
/ Everybody knows that Huerta In
| bankrupt that the Mexican govern
ment has defaulted on the interest on
its national debt, and that until re-
Gently 1t was impossible for Huerta to
/ pay his army The Japanese people
are too good traders to give value for
nothing. and ii is not improbable to
suppose that consideration OF which
we now know nothing may be at the
bottom OF this transaction"
Says United States Should Act.
Why" asked this Senator, may
not Japan demand a concession for a
naval base in Magdalena Bay In re-
turn for Its very material aid to the
Huerta government? II Huerta,
whether as a falling ruler or as one
who sustains himself in power through
the aid OF Japan, grants such con-
cession the United States must pro
test against II as il did before More
than that. the United States must pre-.
vent that concession, or any other
move of Huerta that would endanger
the peace and safety OF the United
States.
"ls 1t going too far to ask ourselves
whether japan, in her present activ-
itv In Mexico, is not deliberately seek.
ing to create a situation that will
bring the relations between that gov.
eminent and the United States near to
the breaking point? The situation in
Mexico, with Japan intermeddling, ID
full OF possibilities. and may we'll
cause the president and the country
serious concern"
With frankness the president ID
said to have discussed another phase
OF Japanese activity, that senators say
looks as If it might be part of a pre-
AA nIa !.
on the west coast OF Mexico the bat.
tleship idzuma.
1t Is customary for officers of ships
visiting foreign countries to pay q
visit Of ceremony to the officials OF
the country visited. To the amaze
ment of the administration, however