The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-27
WATTERSON TILTS AT
MIR. WILSON'S POLICY
Says Presidents Proposals for
Settlement of Question
Are PreposterOus.

LOUISVILLE. KY. MAY 2S-Under the
caption Breakers Ahead" Mr. watterson
will say in the Courter-Journoi tomorrow.
apropos OF the interview on Mexico by
Samuel @. Blythe with President Wilson
In the Saturday Evening Post Of last
week:
AS ethical and historic propositions all
that the President says here may be true
enough. II 1t related to our own country
1t would constitute good basis for party
movement and Presidential leadership
But II relates to another country and
when II is supplemented or rather in this
Interview prefaced by the following Il
becomes debatabIe:
My IDEAL declared Mr.. Wilson. is AN
orderly and righteous government In Mex
leo; but my passion is for the submerged
SIS per cent Of the people OF that republic
who are now struggling toward liberty,
THE President does not consider here
the character OF IS per cent. of the peo-
pie for whom he expresses such concern ;
their capacity to take care OF themselves
| II given the chance their fitness for citi-
zenship and self-government. and finally.
our duty toward them. a foreign and never
an overfriendly people. He talks very much
! as an honest sympathizipg. sentimental
New England clergyman might and did
talk In 1865 of tho negroes OF the South
Such talk led to tho visionary freed
mans bureau and the cruel and foolish
| tyranny OF reconstruction. Involving years
| of hnrtful things done with the noblest
| Intention on the part OF many who be-
| lieved the blacks, oppressed by the whites.
required only the ballot along with forty
| acres and a mule TO redeem and revitalize
| the South.
"In consequence OF errors. alike In
| furious to both the blacks and the whites
! OF the South. the plan OF fanaticai uplift
| had 10 be abandoned. II is partly the
| remembrance of this which leads the
Courier Journal to challenge the policy
which the President has adopted and 70
warn him against It's dangers.
Reduced TO plain terms and brought
down from generalitIes to particulars, Mr..
Blythe represents Mr.. Wilson as pledging
| himself to three signal mistakes.
Each Of these proposals IL laid In the
gratuitous assumption that the Mexicans
are capable of government. that we
4 have the right to intervene and that they
will welcome our Intervention. promising
that we have only TO change the rulers
and the system to secure permanent order
and peace.
1T takes no account OF Mexican fac
lions impossible TO unite, of Mexican am
| Impossible 10 StllttN, OF Mexican
passions impossible to quell. II makes
| the United States the most visionary as
well as the most generous OF phian-
| thropis.s.
Can the President believe that tho
moral obligation which he go stoutly ad.
vances requires any such sacrifice or tina,
the voters OF this country will sanction
the expenditure OF billion or half q
billion OF money In such an adventure
without any return whatever
at Is preposterous. Such statesman.
ship exists only In heaven. 1t has M
abode on earth.
ION the interview we have quoted tn,
President cannot stand. Part or Mevcl,
we require. We must have Lower Cali
fornia, with Magdalena Bay for n nava
station. and we ought 10 have Sonora. 4
not Chihuahua. No patchwork lane
scheme In favor Of the poems will outlas
the presence OF the forces sent 10 achiev,
IT, As soon as pressure Is withdrawn hel
will break loose again. On the gag
thrown down by Mr.. Wilson even Theo
dore Roosevelt may become dangerous