The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1914-05-04
NE EXICO MEDIATION
MEANS new POLICY
In Accepting Offer Of Three A. b. G.
Nations Administration Pledges
This Country to New Rule
BURDEN IS SHIFTED TO OTHERS
Precedent Will Fix Responsibility On
South American Countries is
Thought Greatest Achievement

BY Congressman c.. H. Tavenner.
Washington, May 4 In accepting
of the offer of the three "a. B. c."
nations Argentine, Brazil, and
Chile Ito mediate in the Mexican az
fair, the Wilson administration has
pledged this government to a newly
policy the Importance of which on
the future history of the western
hemisphere can hardly be underesti-
mated. ~ -
The United States has virtually
shifted from her own shoulders the
"corrolary'' of the Monroe Doctrine,
which is that the United States, re-
fusing to the nations of Europe the
right to interfere in affairs of Central
and South America, must herself act
as the guarantor, of European rights
in those countries. " .
That burden has now been shifted
to the shoulders of Argentine, Brazil
and Chile. Whether the Mexican
peace negotiations are successful or
not, these three South American ma
tions, having attained stability in
their government, must now and for
the future act as the policemen Of
this continent. .
Precedent will fix this responsible
ity on the South American countries
and remove it from the United States
There needs to lbe no treaty drawn,
no alliance entered into, to effect
this result. Precedent will force
the A. B. C. countries to continue
what they have started in the case
of Mexico. And in their present and
future work for the peace and con-
tentment Of the American
countries, the A. B. c.: nations will
have the strong moral support OF the
United States.
The outlook for the peace of La
tinAmerica is bright. Racial feel
ing has existed against the United
states. We have been suspected of
being imperialists at heart And.
since the only direction in which
continental United States can grow
is southwark through the Latin re-
publics, all of our efforts toward pre-
serving honor and decency in Gen.
trail America have been loked upon
as the possible approaches of con-
queror seeking a territorial foot
hold. That is the feeling in Mexico
today that arouses anti-American out
bursts on the part of the population.
The beneficent administration of
Woodrow Wilson should set the
United States right in the eyes of her
southern neighbors. His prompt ac-
ceptance of the offer of mediation
came as a revelation to Mexicans
who had attributed the attitude of
the United States to her supposed
desire to annex Mexico. The three
South American republics will not be
suspected of having territorial de-
signs on Mexico. Their legates
speak the tongue that is understood
in Mexico, and there will be no race
prejudice to- embarass the negotia-
tion.
Given a fair chance, without COM
plications from the ambitions of in
dividuals of power in Mexico, the
mediators ought to bring about a
peace that will not only be perman-
ent in Mexico but which will have a
lasting beneficent effect on all of
Latin America.
The American people should pray
for the success of this effort. Its
success will not only relieve the
United States of great and perilous
burden, but it will mark the greatest
achievement of the United States
in her international relations since
the day the Monroe Doctrine was ut
foro1 ."-s~.