The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-20
ARKANSAS SENATOR PAYS TRIB. UTE TO HIS "WATCHFUL
 WAITING" ON MEXICO.
BIRTHDAY IS CELEBRATED
Speaker Says the Country Will Honor Him for His Peace Policy and if War Comes Victory Will Be All the Sweeter for Caution.

Lincoln. Neb., March 19.-Defend ing the administrations Mexican policy, declaring Secretary Bryan was the originator of "watchful wait. ing and predicting that the people will some day rejoice over the warn ing against woe and dissolution" tlat would follow intervention in Mexico. Senator Joe T. Robinson, democrat, of Arkansas addressed friends and neighbors of MT. Bryan a, a dinner here tonight to celebrate the ffty-fourth anniversary of the secretary's birth. Senator Robinson rected the history of "ill fated" Mex ico from the days of Maximilian as serting that conditions today are worse than ever and that Mexico has continually declined through a ser ies of upheavals until today the country is divided with Huerta at the head of one assumed government and Carranza ad Villa attempting to reign supreme in another.
 "Maximilian was benevolent. Ma dero was generous. Huerta is malig- nant and revengeful. Maximilian was self sacrificing. Madero was patri- otic, Huerta is cruel and avarcious. His character is exempliied in his declaration It costs but thirty-hve cents to buy enough rope to hang rebel
 "rhe vital dominating leader of the rebel armies is Villa. It is not Car ranza. Carranza is like Madero. Villa is like Huerta. His sagacity and ageressiveness have made him the master and the terror of northern Mexico. Villa recognizes neither law nor custom. His most striking char acterisuc is vindictictiyeness coupled with marked capacity for military leadership. It is illustrated by his now famous toast:
 T hope to live to eat the beef that will fatten on the grass which will grow on the graves of all my enem- ies.'
 The slaughter of Benton and the murder of Bauch, respectively Brit ish and American subjects by this human tiger, have alienated the sympathy of the administration and consigned the cause of the constitu- tionalsts to doubt if not to doom in the minds and consciences of all our people
 With Villa in command in the north and Huerta in power in the south, what hope has Mexico? If the consttutionalist cause should triumph, the fate of Madero may be- come the lot of Carranza. Villa prob ably will dominate him or destroy him. The dark ages with all their horrors, tyranny, usurpation and tor ture cannot produce names more hideous in all that implies oppres- sion and outrage than the names of Huerta and Villa. There is litr1c choice between these men Huerta stands for the old regime. Villa fights for its destruction"
 Senator Robinson predicted that the cause of the rebels would be re- tarded if not defeated "by it's law less leadership which seems to rec ognine no limitations upon it's own wrath"
 The policy of our government is justified by conditions in Mexico" Senator Robinson continued.
 The spirit of impatience which has prompted some to advocate armed intervention must be restrain ed. Our experience in the Philip pines and the whole history of Mex leo, warn us against nasty or incon- siderate action. Intervention means long period of occurstion. It makes certain the sacrifice of thou sands of lives. More than that, it contemplates the assumption of burden which cannot now be weigh ed It would array all Mexico aeainst the United States and unite all factions there against our armies.
 Unfortunately, the Mexican prob lem seems incapable of solution un- ser any plan that can be predeter- mlned. The character, habits and traditions of the Mexican people un ueriie their present struggle and con nrm the administrators policy to leave Mexico to work out her own sAiYation Huerta and Villa must. however, be made to realize the sac. reohess which other nations attach o human life and property. They must be instructed to look for day