New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-25
Villas Revolt and the President
Mexican Policy.

- ...,D.t the government Of General Carranza
,r..4 aoc,srst,on IS an ominous response to n
wilson's order withdrawing the American loi'e'
4, vors Cruz Trouble has been brewing be-
-, c.rrsrze and villa for several months past
~, .ho latter craftiy withheld his revolution until
trsnsports had been dispatched from galveston ~
hiring General Funston's army Of occupation O"'A
J.. .ho limited States. General villa has had man!
o,0,rt,rities 70 study the Wilson Mexican policy
At srst hand, since an agent Of the State pepSr"
nent in the person Of Consul George G. CarolnerS'
has attended him in all his recent campaigns
,,,. ,r+.rrretation Of the famous programme OF
..tohf,l waiting" seems to be that it is designed
merely to facilitate the elimination OF one military
dictator BY another leaving order security anu 'n0
o.+v interests Of Americans and other alien
os,asnt. 70 sink deeper and deeper into the ABYSS
such is the view Of a slightly reformed OaHu''
.,a nrscticsl soldier like Pancho Villa But IoOA-
r, hack at the facts and noting TIE concurrence -
-. ,-,.hdrovsI order and the new instruction Is
T.. o..ib1o n maintain any other view? has MI
wilson's policy ever struck deeper than 'ne ei'lu''
nation Of n personality? Has it ever drawn 'ne
-. d,st,nction between intervening with me
H.. ~ vritbbolding recognition from one military
,,oioor+ or granting it to another and Intervening
70 nreyent anarchy, to protect the lives anu prof."
.rtv Of American citizens and to discharge 'nOse
,byoations to European nations which we nave as
-, IN tho countries to the south of us under
.r.oorirg Interpretation of the Monroe Doc
trine: al.
rho President has given the public many CONNECT
go. ,,,,rossions as TO the purport of his Mexican
,.o,,cv In the beginning his idea seemed to be
,oro,, 70 force Huerta out of Office and to compel
tho election of a successor by methods Whlch the
I.rtod States could indorse as constitutional
.r,,ot ,,,ooromme was followed for many weary
r,ortbs and seemed on the point of failing abso-
lutelv when one Of Huerta's subordlnateS arreSleu
,ro United states sailors in the port of Iampico
and laid the basis for demand for salute 10 the
American flag by way of reparation. Congress
or,borizad the President to use the armed forces
~ tho limited states to secure reparation But
,f,er Vera Cruz was seized and the B aroitra'
ton was agreed to the idea of securing the repara'
linn which the President had asked was dropped
,rornise nv Huerta to retire was accepted in lieu
~ the salute which was to salve our honor Yet
rIuerts's resignation was due primarily not to the
vaccinations at Niagara Falls but to the activities
Of his enemies at home eliminating in the victories
z,--t,. c,1t;l1o apd Zacgtecas
While the Niagara conference was on Mr., wilson
read some new and startling meanings into his
nolicy He said that we did not go into Mexico to
demand reparation for injured national honor but
% 40 "a work for humanity" Later on he indicated
inst that work for humanity would consist in set
fling the sgrarian problem in Mexico breaking I'D
tho present monopoly in land holdings and securing
economic Justice for the submerged 50 per cent
of Mexico's population. The mission of the United
states In Mexico. he declared, was not alone to
secure the installation of an Executive chosen by
constitutional methods, but to help that Executive
n put the land back into the hands Of the poems.
That was outlining a programme of Intervention
which might last for generation. The Monroe
Doctrine-already Wilsonized In Other respects
was to be amplihed far beyond existing precedents
The United States was to do not alone what its
obligations to It's own citizens and to the nationals
of European powers, deprived by us Of the privi-
lepe Of military Intervention compelled it to DO,
hut was to undertake to regulate the land holding
system OF Mexico for the benefit of oppressed Mexi
cans Yet Huerta is out Carranza is in and villa
is preparing to dspace Carranza without a step Of
any sort having been taken eithe. to guarantee The
restoration Of security and order in Mexico or to
turn the poems wholesale into landed prOprietors.
with the withdrawal Of the American army from
Vera Cruz effected and civil war renewed, Mexico
would lapse into worse chaos than ever, and the
United states would resume its old role of long
distance representations to Carranza, on one side,
and villa on the other which it played so ediously
aud inefEectively with Huerts AMI Carranza.
II the United States expects to keep restrain
ing hand on the situation in Mexico our troops
should not evacuate Vera Cruz In view of tue
protocols signed at Niagara Falls we are entitled