Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-30

New York. April 29.-WiIliam Bay
ard Hale, President Wilson's unoffic-
ial investigator of affairs in Mexico,
has contributed to the forthcoming
number of the Worlds Work an ar
ticle upholding the Presidents Mexi-
can policy and pointing out an i'm
portant development in the character
of American diplomacy. This, he ex-
plains. 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
America and the West Indies.
'The press and the people Of Amer
lea" lie says, have not yet awakened
by the fact that the first year of the
Wilson Presidential has given the
United States new character among
the Powers of the world. Before Mr..
Wilson had been in office a week, he
had given the Monroe Doctrine an in
depreciation the implications of which
go far beyond anything voiced by
Jefferson. Madison. Monroe, Quincy,
Adams, Polk, Webster, Grant or Oh
ney. Before Mr.. Wilson had been in
Office year the Powers of other con-
tinents had yielded to the principle. of
our domination in the Western hemis-
phere. 1t is not fantastical therefore
to speak of our moral Empire in
America"
Our Moral Empire in America" is
the title of the article. The magazine
editors point out that DR.. Hale de-
sires TO make it clear that he writes
simply as a private student of affairs.
Nevertheless, they assert that no one
except the President himself is entitl-
ed to speak with greater authority up
on the problems Of Latin America.
Discussing the possibility of inter-
vention in Mexico (the article was
written before the fleet was ordered to
Tampico), DR.. Hale says: An Amer
lean army would have no physical diff
ficulty in getting back out of Mexico;
nobody would use it up before 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 occupation,
We do not want Mexico, he declares;
especially we do not want her because
we do want the good will OF the rest
of Latin America. 1T would be a
fools act indeed to barter the conf
dence Of q hemisphere for all we could
gain by annexing Mexico"
If armed Intervention should be
forced upon us, he continues, Il pre-
dict that our forces will be ordered
home Just as soon as constitutional
order has been restored; and that, so
far as the power and influence 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 investments in Mexico,
which would be multiplied in value by
being brought under the American
flag, might go toward rendering with
drawal impossible. What We do want
in Mexico, and throughout Central
America, is-order.'
The trouble with Central America,
Dr. Hale asserts, is its proclivity for
revolution. But. he says. most Gen.
trail American revolutions are pro
NOTED" from Europe in regular way
of business, exactly as a real estate
scheme is promoted in America. The
duty of the United States is to scruti-
nize each revolution by itself and to
judge whether it be or be not moral
ly justifiable."
THAT duty the United States has