The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1914-04-29
HALE UPHolDs WILSON,
DEFENDS PRESIDENTS MEXICAN
POLICY AND CHARACTER OF
DIPLOMACY.
Declares Dictator's Career JustiIics
The Refusal To Recognize Him.
America Nation With Conscience.

New York. April 2i.-William Bay
ard Hale. President Wilson's unom-
cial investigator of affairs i'm Mexico.
has contributed TO the forthcoming
number OF the Worlds Work an ar
ticie upholding the presidents Mcxi-
can policy and pointing out an impor-
tant development i'm the character of
American diplomacy. This. he OK
plains. Is an Interpretation of the
Monroe doctrine that establishes the
suzerainty OF the United States only
as an effective source of moral inspir-
alton over the nations of Central
American and the West Indies.
THE press and the people of Amer
ica." he says. 'have not yet awakened
to the fact that the first year of the
Wilson presidency has given the Unit
ed States a new character among the
powers of the world. Before Mr.. Will
son had been I'm Office q week he had
given tho Monroe doctrine an inter-
probation the implications of which 20
far beyond anything voiced by Jeffcr-
son. Madison. Monroe, Quincy, Adams
Polk, Webster. Grant or Olney. Be-
fore MIR. Wilson had been in office q
year the powers of other continents
had yielded to the principle of our
domination I'm the Western hem
isphcre. 1t is not fantastical, there
fore. to speak Of our moral empire in
America"
Our Moral Empire I'm America is
the title Of tho article. The maga-
zine editors point out that DR.. Hale
desires To make 1t clear that he writes
simply as u private student OF affairs.
Nevertheless, they assert that no one
except the president himself Is en-
tiled To speak with greater authority
upon the problems of Latin America.
Discussing the possibility of inter-
Ncntion In Mexico (the article was
written before the fleet was ordered
to Tampico). DIR. Hale says:
IAN American army would have no
physical difficulty i'm getting back out
Of Mexico; nobody would use it up
before II got away; the dihlculty
would be that greed and false sense
of national honor would 10 their Ut
most to keep us thccr permanently
In occupation"
We do not want Mexico. Inc de-
ciares; especially we do not want her
because we do want the good will OF
tho rest OF Latin America. 1t would
be n fools act, indeed To barter the
confidence OF hemisphere for all We
could gain by anncxing Mexico
III armed Intervention should be
forced upon u.s." he continues, IL pre-
dict that our forces will bc ordered
home Just as soon as constitutional
order has been restored; and that, 50
far as the power ana influence of
President Wilson can bring it TO pass.
nothing I'm the nature Of an indemnity,
either in money or land, will bc ;la,>cd
or will be accepted. But nobody can
predict how far the influence of the
which would bc multiplied in value
by being brought under the American
ilas, might go toward rendering With
drawal impossible. What We do want
i'm Mexico. ana throughout Central
America. Is order"
The trouble with Central America
pr. Hale asserts. is it's procilivity for
revolution. But. he says most Central
American revolutions are prompted"
from Europe in regular way OF busi-
ness. exactly as real estate scheme
ia prompted In America. The duty of
the United states is To scrutinizc each
revolution by itself and to judge
whether II be or bc not morally JUS
tiiiablc."
That duty the United States has
now assumed. When Mr. Wilson took
steps to inform himself of the facts
regarding the Huorta coup dc'etat
with IA view To passing "a moral judg-
mcnt upon the rightfulncss of tho .c
facto government in Mexico CITY. he
took. IL seems To me, the most far
reaching and fatcful step which the
Monroe doctrine has inspired i'm all
the processes of it, evolution.
I'm the case of Mexico. Judgment
was easy. The coup tat that oyer
threw Madcro IT, February. 1919. was
I'm no way revolution. II was a bar
racks plot, conspiracy OF a few
army oalcers. financed by Cicntiiicns
living I'm exile and "a few Spanish re-
actonarics. IL was attended by cir
cumstanccs of trcachcry so cXccriblc.
of villainy so fantastic. of cruelty go