The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-04-30

GERS of the staff corps. technical artil-
lery and the corps of engineers seven
years.
Has Few Vessels In Navy.
Mexico has not burdened itself With
the heavy expense of a large modern
navy. The few vessels which she pos.
sesses are destined for purposes of in
struction, coast guard service and
transport. Those vessels are the trans
port and gunboat General Guerrero. re-
Gently built for the Mexico government
in England the gunboats Vera Cruz.
Bravo, Morelos, Democratic and Tam
pico; the transport Progreso and the
corvets Zaragosa and Yucatan, train
ing ships
President Wilson gave careful con
sideration for some time to the other
alternative to intervention-the lifting
of the embargo against importation OF
arms from the United States into Mex
leo. thereby giving the Constitutional!
lists the opportunity they sought, to dem
onstrate whether they could straighten
out Mexico's tangled affairs.
What deferred this government was
its uncertainty as to the ability of Gen
eral Venustiano Carranza and his Con
stitutionalist followers to establish a
stable and lawful government and to
maintain 1t. To determine this was
the purpose of the missions of DR..
william Bayard Hale and Governor
Hunt of Arizona. who unofficially in
vestigated the claims of the Constitu-
tionalists.
In view of the dilatory tactics ap.
parently adopted by Hucrta. the pres
ident FASTENED these reports from spe.
cial investigators. 1t was his evident
purpose to get all of his facts In hand
before he announced his policy either
to the foreign governments or to con
gress.
While President Wilson expressed
disapprovaI in his August message OF
the suggestion of placing more arms In
Mexico. strong arguments were brought
to bear on him in favor of the plea
of the opponents of Huerta. The Con
stitutionalists were ably represented
in Washington and won to their cause
many members OF congress VINO had
been led to believe that not until the
Constitutionalists had an opportunity
to show what they could do to eliml-
nato Huerta could the United States
Justify armed intervention.
Meantime the army and navy were
placed in a state of preparedness for
any eventuality.
Prior to leaving for the border DR..
Hale talked with some of the members
of the insurgent junta. Members of
the junta maintained a strict reticence
in regard to Dr. Hale's visit to them.
John Lind. the presidents special
representative In Mexico. then hurried
to Mexico City from vera Cruz to as.
sist Nelson OShaughnessy, the Amer
lean charge daffaires in convincing
Huerta that there was no bluff abou,
the American governments position
Mr.. Lind arrived apparently without
having given the embassy any notice
of his coming. He spent day at the
embassy. as though in charge there
Maintaining silence as to his plans
Mr.. Lind would say only that ht
merely came up to look over the stu
alton from this end"
Pson Regarded Troublesome.
IN the talk of a war with Mexico the
United States figured that the poems
would be troublesome. Indian and
half Indian. they have been persuaded
that they will be worse ensIaved than
they have been and they will surely
want to fight and will fight until they
learn something by experience. The
poor pay Mexicos taxes today, and
the poor man is the peon. His wages
are scant and his living precarious A
big mine owner from the neighbor
hood Of Parral. Chihuahua. prophesie6
how this would work ont:
I'VE had 1000 men at work. and al
are out of jobs. out of food and out OF
homes now. Many have Joined one
side or the other and fight with theil
brothers. Those men will fight as best
they can at first. but soon they vii
learn that intervention means theil
old jobs back. means relief from taxes
means sure wages and freedom from
molestation. It will not take then
long to quit fighting and settle down t.
peace and comfort
Carter Veteran Fighter.
Major General Carter has distln
guished himself in the army by fndi
vidual acts of bravery. and at the same
time he has contributed much by hi'
great technical knowledge of military
warfare to the present martial cOndi
ton of the United States.
Both as a theoretical and practica
soldier General Carter has made hi
mark, and his great abilities as an or
ganizer and field commander hav'
long been recognized. When he wal
serving as first lieutenant regimenta
quartermaster and acting adjutant OF
the Sixth cavalry in the Apache cam
paign of 1881 in Arizona he won thu
medal of honor for saving soldiers
life in the encounter Mt Cibicu creek
The man was badly wounded. and Car
ter exposed himself to the heavy ar,