Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-03
GOOD

GOOD MEDiATORS.
Those South American mediators
should be able to accomplish much.
Their knowledge of the temper Of the
Mcxicans is moro intimate than that
of any other nation interested in
Mexico.
1t is difficult for anyone but a
Latin.American to get the proper
viewpoint. There is much in common
between the Mcxicans and the South
Americans. They should be able to
meet upon some common ground If
anyone can. If the A. B. c. mediators
fail, wal probably will be inevitable.
MORE LIGHT.
Even though we are at Il with
Mexico and William Jennings Bryan
does not put in an eight hour day,
surely the Democratic administration
can afford to give us II light over
the local post-oftice steps. 1t is
mighty dark there some nights.
VILLA.
Editorial to the New York World.
Pancho Villa may have been a ban
dit and a cutthroat, as his enemies
say, but he has kept faith with the
United States. Everything he has
said and done since this crisis began
has tended to justify the confidence
renoscd in him by President Wilson.
Whatever the future may hold in
it's hand, the fact remains that the
American people are at present under
great obligations to Villa. He is the
one. strong, commanding military fig
ure in Mexico. and he has cxerted
his influence to help this country
carry out the demands made upon
Huerta.
Villa vas the first of the Mexican
leaders on either side to give his
unreserved approval to the mediation
proposals. 1t was Villa who drew
the poison from Carranza's mistrans.
lated protest and made it harmless.
A word from Villa would have turned
10000 Constitutionalist troops against
the United States the moment Vera
Cruz was occupied; yet this so.called
bandit has not only held his men in
line, but they have rendered praise
worthy services to this government.
IT "a a Constituencies army that
rescued The American consul general
at Monterey after he had been insult
ed, arrested and imprisoned by the
Huerta forces, AT Tampico the, Con.
s~titutionalists renewed the attack up.
on the Federals when they found thar
American citizens we're in danger.
At HermOsillo, Consul HOstetter re-
ports that the Constitutionalist com
mander IS rendering every possible
aid to Americans, even Offering them
financial assistance: No later than
Sunday Villa again publicly express
ed his belief that the president Of
the United States has been honest,
sincere and patient in his dealings
with my people, and | have every con-
fldence in his honesty and his abil-
ity to bring about a permanent
peace" e,
1t is not Villa who is Selling AM
erican citizens and holding them as
hostages. 1t is not Villa who is in.
flaming mobs against helpless non
foreigners. That distinc.
ton is reserved for Huerta: Yet,
strangely enough, even such critics OF
the administration as Gen. Tracy con
milo tn nnn1 nIoir hnno,rcn M MA
son did not recognize Huerta, and
Of the administration critics who
have nothing at all to say in ccndem-
nation of Huerta's methods, are as
virulent as ever in their attacks upon
Villa.
Villa may have done many things
that csep1not be defended; for anarchy
is notaikely to produce military lead
ers who are overnice in their meth
DDS of making warfare. But the man
stands out as a strong, virile figure
who commands the confidence of his
followers in the highest degree and
who seems capable OF loyal and dis
Interested public service.
1t must be plain to anybody of or
binary intelligence that Villa can sim
pllfy the American problem in Mexico
or ne can make it UNNECESSARILY more
complicated. His friendship and in
may be worth thousands of
to the United States in restor-
ing order and re-establishing repre-
government in his unfortun-
country.
Why. then, abuse him? Shall we
be better off if Villas friendship is
alienated and his $4,000 armed veter-
ans are turned against us?
IMPROVEMENT IN PEN,
The one prcdominating feature of
Warden Talcott's administration of
affairs at the %penitentiary is his con
slderation for the welfare and uplift. !
ment Of the men. Probably no change
in the interior has been greater to
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