Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-03
SAYS WILSON POLICY GIVES US NEW PLACE
 AMONG WORLD POWERS
WILLIAM eAYARo HALE INTER. PRETs MONROE POLICY AS
 FURNISHING INSPIRATION

Bayard Hale, President Wilson's un- | official investigator of affairs fin Mex ! leo. has contributed to the forth coming number of The Worlds Work an article upholding the Presidents Mexican policy and pointing out an ! important development in the char acter of American diplomacy This. he explains. is an interpretation of the ! Monroe Doctrine, that establishes the suzerainty of the United States only as an effective source of moral inspi- ration over the nations of Central American and the West Indies.
 "The press and the people of Amer lea" he says, have not yet awakened Co the fact that the first year of the Wilson Presidency has given the United States a new character among the Powers of the world Before Mir Wilson had been in office a week, he had given the Monroe Doctrine an | interpretation the implications of | which go far beyond anything voiced ! by Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. Quin- | cy. Adams. Polk, Webster, Grant or | Olney. Before Mir Wilson had been in office a year the Powers of other Fcontiuents had yielded to the princi- pie of our domination in the Western ! hemisphere. It is not farStastical therefore to speak of our moral Elm ! pire in America"
 Our Moral Empire in America is the title of the article. The magaz ne editors point out that Dr. Hale de- ! sires to make it clear that he writes simply as a private student of af- fairs Nevertheless, they assert that no one except the President himself is entitled to speak with greater au- thority upon the problems of Latin America
 Discussing the possibility of inter yention in Mexico (the article was written before the first was ordered ! 70 Tampico) Dr. Hale says: An American army would have no phy- sical difficulty in getting back out of Mexico; nobody could use 1t up be- fore it got away; the difficulty would be that greed and a false sense of national honor would do their utmost to keep us there permanently in oc- cunation'
 ! We do not want Mexico, he de clares; especially we do not want her because we do want the good will of the rest of Latin America. 'It would be a fools act indeed to barter l the confidence of a hemisphere for all We could gain by annexing Mex ico."
 'If armed intervention should be forced upon ds,' he continues, I predict that our forces will be or dered home just as soon as constitu tional order has been restored; and that so far as the power and influ euce of President Wilson can bring it to pass, nothing in the nature of an indemnity, either in money or land, will be asked or will be accepted But nobody can predict how far the influence of the vast American in. vestments in Mexico. which would be multiplied in value by being brought under the American flag, might go toward rendering withdrawal impos- sible What We do want in Mexico and throughout Central America, is- order"
 "The trouble with Central Amer lea, Dr. Hale asserts, lis its procliy- ity for revolution But, he says. most Central American revolutions are pro noted from Europe in a regular way of business, exactly as a real estate scheme is promoted in America The duty of the United States is to scru- tinize each revolution by 'tself and to judge whether it be or be not morally iustifable'
 "That duty the United states has now assumed. When MT Wilson took steps to inform himself of the facts regarding the Huerta coup d'etat with a view to passing a moral iudg ment upon the rightfulness of the de facto government in Mexico City. he took, 1t seems to me, the most far reaching and fateful step which the Monroe Doctrine has inspired in all the process of It's evolution.
 Tn the case of Mexico judgment was easy. The coup d'etat that over threw Madero in February, 1913, was in no way a revolution. It was bar racks plot, a conspiracy of a few army officers, financed by Clendhcos living in exile and few Spanish re- acHonaries. It was attended by cir .cumstances of treachery so eXecrable, of villiany SO fantastic. of cruelty 80 barbarous, that the story is one which the mind has difficulty in accepting as credible.
 "The chief actor. Huerta, an ape like Indian, aged, one-eyed, subsist- ing on brandy, when the moment of his triumph was fully come rose from
 breakfasting with the Presidents brother. beckoned a file of soldiers arrested him, had him carried away to be shot to death and his body thrown into a hole; went to Che Palace, eIn-
 braced the President whose chief commander he had become through protestatIons of faithiulness to death and signalled In guards to arrest him
 By promises Of safe-conduct out of tho country, the treacher0us general secured the signatures Of President