The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1914-05-14
CAN'T STAND FOR ALLIANCE
WITH VILLA.

The Lewiston Tribune, the leading
and most influential democratic paper
F, in Idaho, and which has stood loyalty
by the WILSON, Bryan administration,
has evidently reached the parting of
the ways. The administrations evil
dent alliance with Villa is too much
for the Tribune, according to this re-
cent editorial utterance:
1T looks very much as though the
national administration has now set
its heart on installing the Carranza-
! Villa cabal into the government of the
republic Of Mexico, not, perhaps, as
the ideal thing to do but rather as the
| best visible way out Of bad mess.
There are numerous substantial rea =
sons for thinking so. One reason Is
| that having declared against Huerta
and all of his faction and declined 10
provide any alternative form of gov
ernment, the Villa element remains as
The only possible resort. A friendli-
ness for Villa and Carranza, which
countless rebuffs and injuries have
been unable to weaken, is naother in
dication. A steady stream of consular
reports, applauding the magnaminity
and trustworthiness of the constitu-
tionalist, is another straw. And now
comes the New York World, self con-
stituted organ Of the administration
with convincing testimony. 1t says:
Pancho Villa may have been a bandit
and a cut-throat, as his enemies say
Nut he has kept faith with the United
States. Everything he has said and
done since this crisis began has tended
to justify the confidence reposed in
him by President Wilson. His friend
ship and Influence may be worth
thousands of troops to the United
States in restoring order and rees-
tablishing representative government
in his unfortunate country
1--WE take it then that while the
American government is above recog-
nizing General Huerta it is not only
not above recognizing General villa,
but would cordially welcome and de-
fend his accession to power. If that
statement, or anything like it. is actu-
ally found to represent the sentiments
and policy of the administration, we
shall have mighty little confidence left
in any such administration. 1t will
disclose an ability to whtewash and
to blackwash for purposes of expedi-
ency such as no national administra-
ton has ever stopped to do before, at
least since the civil war.
1T is explained that by doubling up
with Villa the nation may save some
thousands of men by avoiding the oc-
cason for further hostilties with
Mexico. SO it could have done in the
first instance by letting General
Huerta alone. There is no special diff
ference in character or quality between
them, but such as there Is seems all in
Huertas favor. Considering the way
the American government, from the
nrst has treated him, and the way it
has treated those in rebellion against
the constituted authority, his modera-
ton and his success in maintaining
any sort of order at all are little short
Of remarkable. Even the assassina-
ton of Madero, black as it was, has |
classic parallels that history has vim
aicated as coup d etat. The moral (
sentiment of the nation, however, has, I
in very considerable measure, ap- I
proved the reputation of Huerta. The
same sentiment, wherever 1t is well
grounded, is shocked at the apparent
alliance with the professional camor- !
rists, ghouls and coyotes now mas
as constitutionalists. The
:soption of euphemistic name no