The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-04-02
EUROPEAN PRESS cRiTicise Mex.
CAN POLICY.

q Almost universally condemn president
Wilson's handling of the Mexican prob
lem. He is said to have tried to impose
the standards of a civilized state upon
an Indian Empire just as II he had
gone into Central Africa and expected
to find a condition of civilized order,
or had visited Madagascar and lifted
his hands in holy horror on witnessing
the feuds and fights between clans of
Hovas and Betsiml saralsas. While the
London Outlook thinks that he has com
plicated matters by lifting the embargo
feet that there has been nothing so
cruelty immoral and so cynically cruel
In the history of the world" other
papers generously treat the President
and his Secretary of State with more
consideration and charitably but pity
ingly put the msmanagement down to
want of training and experience. or
sheer ignorance of the condition OF
leading paper of Paris. the Temps. de-
plores the way in which French interests
are being sacrificed in Mexico but
puts Ii all down to our Presidents mis-
lions of French dollars invested in
Mexican government bonds. in banks,
railway stock electric roads, factories
and Industrial enterprises. and partic-
Porfirio Diaz are past. OF American
indifference to French interests we
read:
at is well to recall what France
has done for Mexico in exploiting
mines and natural resources, all the
more because the United States has
systematically ignored the part
played by us in developing the nat
ural resources there. If you open
an American guide book to Mexico
you win find that everything is treat
ed in detail excepting the French
colonies and the enterprises of the
French"
Americans have made such failure
in dealing with Mexico. and tries to ex-
plain what he styles "the imprudent
and ill-informed policy" of President
country. He then states certain facts
of which he thinks our President was
unaware:
I'm order to appreciate the situa-
ton, 1t is necessary to bear in mind
that Mexico is not Latin Republic.
It is an Indian Empire. A Latin
Republics is the description
complacently given the country by
the Latins of Europe and half dis
dainfully accepted by Anglo Saxons
Both of them are radically mis-
taken. OF population of 100000,
Mexico contains: 100000 whites,
100000 half breeds and 5000, 900
Indians. But even the whites are
not all absolutely pure blood with
out including the half-breeds. it may
be said that some Indian blood flows
in the veins of the majority of
Creoles."
The Temps thinks that President
Wilson should have considered all these
things and not have expected from
Mexico the exact diplomatic etiquette
which are exacted by and from more
civilized countries. In fact, he should
have recognized Heurta
The eminent French writer. NJ Leon
Bourgeois, in his Mexico in the TWEEN
tieth Century" goes out of his way to
show that the Mexicans are not to be
judged by the American or European
standards. Can that be called re-
public where 100000 out of the Is,
100000 can neither read nor write? We
can not insist on civilized usages he
holds. in a land where, according 10
the most authoritive Mexican writer's
the popular vote is merely a nominal
right. rather than the full and free
exercise of the national sovereignty
turesque account of the original rulers
of Mexico from the time OF her indie
pendence up to the days of Porfirio
Diaz. They were reckless bandits like
Rob Roy. whose motto was that he
should take who has the power and he
should keep who can. Their captain
Or general was a replica of the cap
tain of robbers in "Gil Blas''-a vul-
gar and unscrupulous bandit. This pic
ture throws a vivid light on the char
acter of the"Republic.
up to the reign of Diaz the first
rascal who presented himself was
entitled captain, commandment. or