The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-08-17
WILSON'S STAND CORRECT
Waiting Policy in Mexican Trouble
Now Appreciated r p u la rity
Growing in Leaps and Bounds.
WISDOM OF COURSE APPARENT

BY Congressman G. H. Tavenner.
Washington, August 17.-Reports
reaching from all sections of the
United States are to the effect tina,
the popularity of Woodrow Wilson
is growing in leaps and bounds
The terrible European war, with its
accompanying bloodshed, suffering
and cries of anguish arising from the
battle fields, with it's ever repeated
tales of green fields and fair and
bountious: lands transformed over
night into human slaughter pens and
scenes of utter desolation, reveal only
too vividly what this country escaped
in avoiding a war with Mexico. e
The people are beginning to
realize why Woodrow Wilson was SO
patient, what he was trying to avoid
and what he succeeded in avoiding.
The wisdom of the Presidents
course. toward Mexico is now appa-
rent. An expensive war, and war
without glory to the United States,
has been avoided. The mediation
caused the flag incident to escape
into the background, and served to
postpone action by the United States
against Huerta until the advance of
the cons;titutionalists drove him from
Mexico. -
As the public is brought to review
the recent history it will come to
admire the course of Woodrow Wilson
more and more. Jingoes and anti
administration newspapers are try
ing to create the impression that our
government came off second best in
a bout involving the honor of both
countries. There is also the insinua-
ton that our administration lacked
courage to attack Mexico after the
seizure of Vera Cruise. .
These charges are so ridiculous
that they could come only from a
small mind. 1t is very true that the
Wilson administration submitted to
insults patiently from Huerta, when
|one-tenth of such insults coming from
ia nation the size of the United Statds
would have instantly and firmly re-
scented by the brave men in the White
House. 1t took Drawer man to over
look Huerta's insults than to resent
them.
But the Presidents tolerance of
Huerta was. his greatness. He was
dealing not with a nation but with
"a Violent and irresponsible individual.
It. was the same as dealing with a
|wayward child. One man might kill
another if a point of honor were in
volved, but the same man as superin-
tendent of an industrial school would
submit to the same insult from bad
boy and only seek methods of correct
ing his charge. That was the way
President Wilson dealt with Huerta,
and he kept the United States out OF
war, savink untold bloodshed and
misery and millions of dollars.
One great blessing sure to come out
of the Mexican revolution will be a
modern free public school system for
the Mexican poems. Much cynical
criticism of President Wilson s
policy toward Mexico has been based
on the argument that the Mexicans
are too ignorant to support a con-
stitutional government even if they
|should have one given to them ready
made
The answer of course is that the
rich land owners of Mexico, who have
controlled previous Mexican govern
ments, have kept these poems in ig-
norance purposely. They know that
with education comes determination
to secure better things and greater
liberty, and the power to attain them
too. Today it is practically imposs-
|ible for the Mexican labor class tic
get any education at all. - e..
The onstitutionalists, confident oil
their ultimate success, several months
ago appointed a commission to study
the free school systems in the United
States Tho commission {annOint ed
by General Carranza, is headed by
Senior Modesto G. ROLAND, a former
instructor in the Mexican national
military academy at Chapultepec
y This commission will be ready tc
report by the time the constitution.
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