Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-04
Englands Newspapers
Criticise Policy Laid
Down by President

London, March 4. - The Mexican
situation and Sir Edward Greys pro-
nouncement of the views of the British
government in regard to the investi-
CATION into the death of William S.
Benton, are the subject of much COM
ment in to-day's newspapers. The
Pail Mall Gazette says:
The temperate and restrained lam
guage in which Sir Edward Grey re-
ferred to the Mexican murder will
have the approval of all Englishmen.
Its moderation, however, will not dis
guise the depth of their feeling.
Every reason of moral and inter-
national right requires of the United
States that the punishment of Ben
tons murderer shall be undertaken
without delay. At the present moment
civilization stands flouted and Great
Britain outraged. The application of
the Monroe Doctrine is paralyzed and
locked"
Policy Responsible
The Globe saws:
Sir Edward Grey said much to EN-
phasize the gravity of recent events
and very little to relieve the disqul-
etude which those events have newt
ably provoked. The public opinion of
this country, however, sympathetic to
the United States, will not make con-
sideratlons for the embarrassments of
President Wilson an adequate excuse
for acquiescing in such deeds as those
of which Pancho Villa with the ap-
proval of Venustiano Carranza has
been guilty. If President Wilson can
not be held responsible for the be-
havior of the Mexican insurrectionists,
his policy Is directly responsible for
the state of things which has led to
tnfr I.Ix Al, n
States has done is not merely to allow
civil war to persist but to foment 1T by
allowing arms and ammunition to be
supplied to the belligerents."
Wilson Shielded
The Daily Chronicle, in it's editorial
comment, says:
more responsibility in Benton's MUIR
der than Sir Edward Grey stated. Viii
la, his murderer, obtained practically
all his arms and supplies from across
the American border because the
United States deliberately raised in
his favor an embargo otherwise i'm
posed by international peace. He was
able to keep the rebellion on foot
partly for this reason, but chiefly be-
cause the United States forbade Euro
pean lenders to advance Huerta money
to crush him.
"If this policy of the United States
did not exist, Benton probably would
still be alive and III he were not, Eng
land would be in a position to get
redress from the regular Mexican gov
ernment. Thus II is really the United
States which stands between England
and redress. Though we may be philo-
American enough not 10 say so OFF,
clally, other powers In q like case
might not be. The United States, in
short, can hardly find resting place
Her policies must either go forward
with the assumption of more RESPONSE
bilities or backward. with the aban.
donment of some, IL not all. which II
has now assumed"
The Daily Express says:
I'VE regret the rather humiliating
confession of impotence and we think
that Sir Edward Grey's language not
too aptly chosen; but the sense of his
statement is in accord with public
sentiment and is, on the whole, salts
factory. The next move clearly lies
with President Wilson. He has one
of those opportunities that do not re-
cur"