The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-05-03
HUERTA AN APE
LIKE INDIAN,
DECLARES HALE
PRESIDENT WILSON'S INVEST
GATOR, GIVES GRAPHIC DE-
scRIPTION OF MEXICO AND
CONDITIONS THERE.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

New York, May William Bayard
Hale, Pres. Wilson's unofficial IN
vestigator Of affairs In Mexico, has
contributed to the forthcoming num-
upholding the presidents Mexican pol
icy and pointing out an important de-
velopment in the character of Ameri-
can diplomacy This, he explains, Is
an Interpretation of the Monroe Doc
trine, that establishes the suzerainty
of the United States only as an eff
fectiye source of moral inspiration
over the nations of Central America
and the West Indies.
The press and the people of Am
erica" he says, have not yet awaken
ed to the fact that the first year of
the Wilson presidential has given the
United States a new character among
the powers of the world. Before Mr..
Wilson had been in office a week, he
had given the Monroe Doctrine an in
depreciation the implications of which
go far beyond anything voiced by
jefferson, Madison. Monroe, %Qufncy
Adams. Polk, Webster, Grant or OIL
new Before Mr.. Wilson had been in
office a year the powers of other con-
tinents had yielded to the principle
of our domination in the western hem
isphere. 1t is not fantastical therefore
to speak Of our moral empire in Am
erica
Our Moral Empire in America" is
the title of the article The magazine
editors point out that Mr.. Hale de-
sires to make it clear that he writes
simply as a privote student of affairs
Nevertheless, they assert that no one
except the president himself is en-
titled to speak with greater authority
upon the problems of Latin America.
Occupation Permanent.
Discussing the possibility of inter
Vention in Mexico (the article was
written before the fleet was ordered
a, fol Az Avn
erican army would have no physical
difficulty in getting back out Of Mex
ico; nobody would use it up before 1t
got away; the difficulty would be that
greed and a false sense of national
honor would do their utmost to keep
us there permanently in occupation"
We do not want Mexico, he de-
clares; especially we do not want her
because we do want the good will of
the rest of Latin America. ut would
be a fools act indeed to barter the
confidence of a hemisphere for all we
could gain by annexing Mexico"
If armed Intervention should be
forced upon us, he continues, Il pre-
dict that our forces will be ordered
home Just as soon as constitutional
order has been restored; and that, so
far as the power and influence of
President Wilson can bring it to pass,
nothing in the nature of an indemnity,
either in money or land, will be asked
predict how far the influence of the
vast American investments in Mexico
which would be multiplied in value by
being brought under the American
flag might go toward rendering with
drawa1 impossible. What we do want
in Mexico, and throughout Central
America, is-order.'
The trouble with Central America,
DIR. Hale asserts is it's proclivity for
revolution. But, he says, most Cen
trail American revolutions are pro
NOTED" from Europe in a regular way
of business, exactly as a real estate
scheme is promoted in America. The
duty of the United States is to sCru-
tinize each revolution by itself and
to judge whether it be or be not NOR
ally justifiable."
That duty the United States has
now assumed. When Mr.. Wilson took
steps to inform himself of the facts
regarding the Huerta coup d'etat,
with a view to passing a moral judg
ment upon the rightfulness of the de
facto government in Mexico City, he
took. it seems to me, the most far
reaching and fateful step which the
Monroe Doctrine has inspired in all
the process of its evolution.
I'm the case of Mexico, judgment
was easy. The coup de'etat that over
threw Madero in February, 1913, was
in no way a revolution. 1t was a bar
racks plot, conspiracy of a, few army
officers, financed by Cientificos liv-
ing in exile and a few Spanish reac-
tionaries. 1t was attended by cir
Cumstances of treachery so execrable,