The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-18

all would now be well. SAYS Harper
Weekly:
Madcro was rhc best type Of leader
thar has been developed in McNtco.
He understood exactly what was the
matter with his country. Ills book
called "Tho Presidential Succession
was clear and accurate warming TO
Dia2 OF what tho country needed ana
was likely TO ocmand Madcro Was a
philosopher and statesman. l9ti
should have had In Mexico mnn who
would have earnestly backed the Ma
dcro regime, ile might well even
have lent american officers 10 MAJ
dero to help him build mp his army.
He might well oven have helped him
police certain towns. MS being In their
nature intcrnn uonui ports Instead OF
that, he was surrounded by men who
had symra th5cd with DiaZ. who were
opposed TO AIadero. who saw In Huer~
Ia the kind OF person they wanted
n person who would force certain
amount OF external order and who
could be used TO the satisfaction OF
the big Investors. Henry Lanc VII
son was malign influence In the
country. working against tho strug-
Cling efforts toward nationality and
enlightenment. working for the old
regime OF arbitrartness and response
TO financial pressure. President Will
sons view OF Mexico Is the same as
was Madero's, He has done what he
could 10 help the Mcxicans get
start toward selfgovernmont. or at
cstS of the mass OF MeXicanS He
therefore could not recognize tIueria,
a murderer and a rcactonary, unfor-
tGnatey for him, no second Madcro
has developed.
Madero was impossible rs president
of Mexico by the very fact that he was
Ali that Harper's Weekly says he was.
He could no more succeed rs president
of Mexico than Woodrow Wilson could
succeed as Sultan Of Turkey. The sug-
American officers to Madero to help
him build up his army and might well
have helped him to police certain cities,
as being in their nature international
ports, would seem like r grotesque ef-
fort at pleasantly wero the editor
and sad when confronted by the mis-
fortunes of President Wilson. Such nc-
tion would have been intervention, and
yet year after Mr., Taft IS retirement
from the presidency and after there has
been long series of disorders, outrages
and assassinations his successor has not
seen fit to intervene. What was de-
feet in President Taft is a merit in
President Wilson, according to this
logician.
There is somewhat moro point TO the
contention that President Taft should
have replaced Henry Lane Wilson by
an envoy more friendly to Madero. 1t
is customary, however, for presidents to
stand by their ambassadors, This is
we'll illustrated in the case Of President
Wilson himself ambassador Page has
cut a sorry figure as our representative
at the court Of st. James, and on sew
eral occasions has made speeches which
have embarrassed the administration
and made its task more difficult, and
yet the president cxonerates and de-
fends his envoy, although he probably
realizes that Page deserves to be eau
toned If not recalled.
It must be remembered, moreover,
that the pernicious activities of Henry
Lane Wilson did not become matter
Of public knowledge in this country un-
til Mr., Taft had retired from office.
How far this presumptuous ambassador
had gone in an effort to overthrow
Madero and give the reius of govern
ment into the hands Of Huerta perco-
lated slowly TO public notice, and the
ambassador was permitted by the pres
emf administration to remain in his po-
sition at Mexico City for about six
months after Mr., Taft had retired.