Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-23

w patriotic students at Yale that
war with Mexico would not be
a path of glory, but a trail of VICE.
he described in the most graphic and
comprehensive way the real meaning
of the conflict. Like other conservative
and experienced statesmen, ne regrets
that this republic has been drawn into
an unfortunate controversy which now
threatens the peace of two republics
for a long period. 1t is bound to be
trail of woe, and the American boys
who have already given up their lives
have shed their blood in cause
which does not inspire the red-blood
enthusiasm that has characterized
every other war in the history of the
country.
There is no doubt about President
Wilson having the sturdy support OF
every loyal citizen. lie will have at
his command the treasure and the
military strength of a vigorous people;
but while there is determination
evervwhere throughout the country to
uphold the dignity of the government
regret that the diplomacy or lack of
diplomacy which characterized the
preliminary handling of the whole
matter has plunged the country into
a situation which involves such serious
complications as cannot be even fore
seen at the present time.
There is growing conviction that
the present administration is lacking
in experience and there is also a
strong belief that the men who have
been sent to represent the United
State at the foreign courts are not
of the type which gives promise of
conservative and level-headed action
under stress and in sudden emergen-
cies. For the first time in years there
is also a question in the public mind
regarding the ability of the present
head of the State Department to grasp
the many serious problems which are
bound to arise with great frequency in
our relations with other countries.
This and other reasons are respon-
sible for the doubt which clouds the
whole question of our difficulty in
Mexico. Even now there is reach
Ang out in the public thought for the
strong figures which have stood for
the country's honor and its welfare in
other crises of the nation. But in
spite of this attitude there is no ques-
tion anywhere regarding the deter.
Inination of the American people to
stand back of the President in every
reasonable move which he may make
for the restoration of peace even
through the force of arms
1t is too late now, perhaps, to dis
Guss what might have been. We are
now confronted with the always diff
Rult problem of a restoration of har-
,,nonious relations between two coun-
aries whose interests are so closely
related one with the other.
We can only hope that the loss of
brcstiSe of this nation abroad is but IA
Temporary thing and that the real mo-
fives actuating the United States in its
dealing with it's unfortunate neighbors
will be better understood as the CON
ditions which have prevailed in Mexico
ore TedllneO.
But the odum of an insincere act
has been obviated" says the Philadel-
phia North American. For the
maladroit and evasive policy Of the
administration has been substituted a
declaration which Is reasonably
straightforward and which we can de-
fend before the world, American
honor has been taken into the keeping
of a patriotic congress. There will
no longer be any doubt or hesitation
among true citizens. They will sus-
tain to the uttermost the future course
of the government and, at any cost
in lives or treasure, will carry through
the great work thrust upon them by
fate and administrative incompetence u