The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-12
Foreigners in Mexico City Now
Hope Waiting Policy Will
Be Abandoned.
UNHURT BY EMBARGO
Dictator Has Been Able to Get
Ample Funds and His Fol-
lowing Is Growing.

the people OF Mexico was demonstfeteu
last week. whom the installation In the
Presidency Of Gen. Huerta was cele-
brated. There Wa . brilliant review Of
troops and fifteen Maderista deputies
were released from the prison In which
they had been since Huerta's dissolution
Of Congress. The Spanish have a pitifu'
saying. ''ous solos cstan Toe muertosr
tRow lonely are the deadD There were
few to remember Madero. who had been
dead for year. A few women went out
"a the cemetery and laid flowers on his
grave That was all
Notwithstanding the allegations Of the
Carransas and the villas that they took
up arms 10 avenss the murder Of Madero
and vindicate the Constitution. the truth
IL that Madero 10 little missed by hls
country, which considers him much bet.
ter dead. The puppet Of the cievefer
members OF his family. he undertook to
resenerate tho country. only 20 bring
upon II greater Ills. not the least OF
which was the shameless grating OF hts
relatives, with whom he surrounded HIM
self In places Of high power.
LONE before he was removed he had
shown himself utterly Incompetent tn
inaugurats any Of the reforms he had
promised. as he was helpless to hold In
check those who had made him a ruler
that they might crafty their own cupidity.
After but a year Francisco Madero IL
| remembered, II ne In remembered At atl
| only as q foolish visionary. who brought
opon his country endless woe
Haerta stronger Than Ever.
For a year Husr,a has maintained him
| self In the Presidency in defiance OF
| President wilson's mandate and at the
| end OF that year during which President
Wilson has sought TO discredit and weaken
him. he finds himself stroneer than ever,
more favorably regarded by the nations
/ Of Europe. with larger. better equipped
and better disciplined army. and BY COM
| partson with an Atrocious Villa and
Zapata and the futile Carranxa he has
gained greatly In the esteem OF his own
| countrymen.
In spite Of the financial embargo. which
has been the least inefectual part OF
| President wilson's policy OF non-recueni-
| ton. Huerta has been able to obtain funds
with which to run his Government and in
| crease his army, and although there may
| be no immediate prospect OF his putting
down the revolt there II still less prospect
Of the rebels triumphinG. With the meas
| ure OF washln9ton's approval, whatever
revolutlo nists they can prolong their bar
barous warfare indefinitely. which they
might not have done had It not been made
easier for them to Oo.ain arms and am
munition. II - for these reasons tha,
Americans here and Me1icans too. are
eager TO snatch hope from villas stupid
murder OF Benton hope that II will forc'
abandonment Of the waiting and watching
policy.
FOR twelve months the United States
has refused recognition 10 Huerta- For
fourteen months 1t withheld Its recosnl'
ton from Pornrio Dias. and many are
asking u hiatory 10 about to repeat itself
Iiuerta may not be- as good n man or as
able a man a. Porarfo Diaz. but he ap'
pears 70 be quite AZ good and quite Al
able 40 any who have presented them
selves in tho arena herr since the over
throw of the old dictator. He bstray'
none Of the faulty of Madero the va
cliiation OF Felix Dias. the futiity Of Car
ranxa or the barbarity Of villa.
Yet little could be hoped for now from
his recognition. however tardy. Madero'
successful revolt was possible only be
cause Mexico had outErown the absolut
ism by which DIas was able to govern he
for thirty years. Such . dictatorship a
his will never be possible again. but Mex
leo has not grown up TO the democrati
sels. government which President Wilson
would have her adopt Her people mus
be taught the duties Of citizenship. an
this can be done only from without II
Mexicans that they must govern them
! selves constitutionally without teachin
! them how to do II.
, woulA welcome Istervestsen.
, This would not BE- such hesculean tas
, as many imagine. Experience has nc
!, taught Mexicans either TO trust or respet
N...a 49,, IL n
! to trust and respect American teacher
such 90 the United States gave 20 Cub
? during the period Of reconstruction 70
: lowing the collapse OF Spanish domination
' The Cubans after centuries OF misrule D
Spa!n were BY no means htted to accom-
: pikh the work OF reconstruction then
, nsives and tho Mexioahs Are far less mite
: for the task II 10 In recognition Of TIL
that all thoughtful persons here beliet
Intervention 10 inevitable ana the onl
means Of preventing an endless series I
revolutions sure TO snsus II Msxico 10 10
o to herself.
= Mexicans would at nrst make SON
d nothing like q war. Mexicana reai!i
II their inability to oppose the power OF Il
n United States and the more Intelligent
. them know that only good could accr'
l. to them from the friendly assistance
the northern republic.
al NOthIng III n lOn8 UuO0 ms " oVSuos
ened the position Of Husrta ~ villa
murder of Benton. Foreigners arr Co
traatins the perfect safety enjoyed
them under tho orderly Huerta Cover
ment with the jeopardy In which the
brethren 1.-Two under the lawlsss rule
- VIils's Constituti0nalists.
}. Naturally. the Newspapers oOntfoned
!. the Government make the moet OF q
matter. diiating upon the care VI
which IIuerta has protected foreigns
10 in his anxiety alike 70 avoid Information
a combinations and TO have his Dover
ment appear before the world ~ civilis'
4. and law abiding. They rehearss the maj
ID instances of Villas barbaFity. Some
the pupers 70 TO the extreme OF decla
10 ins President Wilson responsible for q
ID murder OF Benton.
~ Most striking OF sii however. Of u
consequences OF the rebel leaders iase
% crime In the unanimity with which Anne,
I'd cans here welcome the killing OF Br
~ ish subject for the promise II holds o
n OF an enforced abandonment Of the wa
n ing policy. Everywhere they are hsa
to express themselves with grim satisfa
ton that at last something has occurr
J. IN arouse the Ire OF . nation that pr
70 tects its SUBJECTS wherever they are ov
% ali the surface OF the globe. All bitter
A asssrt that washington viii be mo
stirred by thu killing OF one Enaiishm
49, than by the massacre OF a hundr
Americans.
Ito with the intimate knowledge due
long residence In Mexico they say Pre-
dAnt Wilson In mistaken In his treAtms