Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-22
Tuesday, September %, 1914.
What Next in Mexico?


ident While the American forces I'M
der General Funston are getting out
of Mexico, there is hurried preparation
on the part of the representatives of
foreign countries to get their nationals
out of the disturbed territory before
the United States forces leave. Judging
from the past the fears of foreigners
in Mexico are fully justified. If ever
a state of anarchy prevailed, it is at
the present time. There is no sem
blance of government. no laws or Off
GERS of law, everything is under the
control of a few self-constituted
leaders who rule by power of banditti
which they can direct. With Funston
and his forces out of Mexico, anything
may happen to any foreigner at any
which has been displaced by rival cut
threats, aided by the administration
of this country, is replaced by real
form of government, recognized by
civilized powers. there will be no
safety for foreigners in Mexico.
The bandid Villa may be praising
President Wilson but caran1a, who is
supposed to be the head of everything
that pretends to be a government in
that country, is not. If he is friendly
to President Wilson, the American
government of the American people,
he has might poor way of showing
it. CaranZa was never a party to the
negotiations at Toronto. The results
of that conference of pan-American
diplomats is not observable in the
conduct of affairs in Mexico at this
time, nor is there any likelihood of
either Caranza or villa carrying out
the high purpose of the South Amer
lean gentlemen who wished to share
in bringing about better conditions in
Mexico. We hope Americans and
subjects of other countries now left in
Mexico will have no cause to regret
the departure of the American forces.
but We fear. 1t is impossible for any
one who has followed the semi-bar-
barous conduct of affairs in Mexico
in recent years to have confidence in
the present deplorable make-shift for
a government. How otherwise can we
deem this control by men who have
the bloodiest records of any in all that
blood-stained country-even If they
were enabled to overthrow all the
semblance of government that has ex-
listed since the days of Diaz. through
the removal of the American embargo
on arms and munitions of war, by
President Wilson?
Pertinent questions are being asked,
these days when supporters of the
administration congratulate themselves
and the country that our troubles in
Mexico are ended" For the moment,
the miserable muddle in Mexico is
overshadowed by the Importance Of
affairs in Europe, and the Democratic
administration is doing its best to
make the American people forget Mex
leo and our connections, Herewith,
even If many worthy American citi-
zens become the victims of lack of
government where their private inter-
ests lie. 1t is next to impossible for all
foreigners to leave that disturbed
country on short notice. or even to
leave 1t at all. yet they are under the
menace of the greed, hloodthirstiness
and natural hatred of intelligent
Americans by the illiterate and ire
sponsible hosts of Mexicans. The
Washington Post, referring to the
claims BY certain Democrats, that the
administration is entitled to congratu-
lations on the progress of events in
Mexico, says:
Is the slaughter of 167 policemen in
Mexico City last week, guardians of
The peace, to be accepted as an evil
aence of the peace of our policies have
given Mexico?
N-AN Jus dol1y executions
Of federalist officers now reported from
Mexico City and other portions of the
territory under Constitutionalist con-
troll to be held up to the Mexican peo-
pie, to our own people, to the people of
the world as our administration tri-
amphs?
What of the recent demands for
.orced loans or contributions made up
On the Americans in Tampico by the
Constitutionalists' governor of the
state of Tamaulipas?
Are they to be regarded as victories
.or our Mexican policies?
What OF the press reports as to the
handing over by Carranza of the rail-
ways of Mexico to the control of the
capitalists charged with financing Car
.anza and Villas revolution. and of
having influenced the raising of the
embargo on arms?
Are these reports true? If thew are
this another triumph in our Next
IAN policies?
Is this one of the benefits To the
people Of Mexico which our diplomacy
Vas to confer upon them?
Congratulations on Mexican policies