The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-02
Is NOT FAR OFF

Claude LEngle seldom refers to
foreign matters. but when he does
his views are worth reading. Fol-
lowing is the way he looks at the
Mexican and Japanese situations:
President Wilson has not called
me in council, nor has Secretary of
State Bryan asked me how | felt
about either the Japanese or Mexi-
can question therefore, what |
have to say is in no wise connected
with the foreign policy or the lack of
the present administration The
Mexican question is always before US
on the front pages of all the news
papers, and there is a constantly re-
curing recrudenscence Of the Japan
csc question. There is in conse-
quence much talk about both going
| believe that Intervention in Mex
leo by the United States is bound to
come and that as it was inevitable
from the beginning it seems to me
L. "ouIu nav DCcA USllCI lOT the
president to have pursued a DO-IT-
NOW policy instead of the waiting
policy he has chosen | am the
more reinforced in the belief | have
expressed of the inevitable of uIti-
mate Intervention by a small item
that appeared in the papers last Fri
day or Saturday. 1t was to the effect
that the French government had an
nounced that it would look to the
United States government to protect
French interests in Mexico.
Germany, England and France
have more invested in Mexico than
have the citizens of the United
States. England particularly is vital
l. interested because England has.
like this country, decided to abandon
the use of coal as fuel for war YES
sells and in the future to rely upon
oil for fuel for all new ships and for
all old ships that can be converted
into oil burners.
And the only supply of oil on which
England can rely is in Mexico, which
is the only reason why England owns
oil wells in Mexico.
AS soon as England with it's vital
interests at stake and Germany be-
ing pressed for action by the large
number of German citizens with
enormous holdings in Mexico, or
81 !
many, any one of them become con-
WINGED that the United States WILL
NOT take charge of the Mexican
situation, and decided that one
acting for all or all acting together
MUST DO 1T and in pursuance of
| this land marines and sailors from
| the fleet on Mexican soil, this coun-
| try will be brought up with a short,
sharp turn, face to face with the
| Monroe Doctrine. We will then either
have to assure these countries or any
one Of them, that We will bring order
| into Mexico or fight. Unless we take
the only other alternative and aban-
don the Monroe Doctrine.
When this state of things come to
| pass the United States WILL INTER
VENE IN MEXICO; because it can
not abandon the Monroe Doctrine,
and the little trouble that would be
kicked up in Mexico by the invasion
o. the armed forces of the United
| States would be nothing compared
/ to the terrible effects of a war with
one or three of the greatest Europ-
can powers.
| Now as to Japan cannot avoid
| the conclusion that the Island En-
pire is bluffing, when thru its minis
sters it shakes it's fists under our
nose over the comparatively unim-
portant question of colonization in
the United States. This cannot be
an important question in Japan, be-
cause it got territory enough as a re-
suit OF the successful war it waged
| with Russia to supply the needs for
colonization for many years to come.
It can be merely a question of ma
tional pride with the Japs, not want
ing their country to be graded any
lower in the sisterhood of nations