Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-30
Friday, October 80, 1914.
Results Of .watchfuI Waiting"

Results of 'Watchful Waiting"
We have referred to the concise ana
enlightening analysis of conditions
in Mexico, and the utter failure of the
administrators policies in that coun-
try. by Senator John W. Weeks. His
calm but exact pictures Of the folly or
President Wilson and Secretary Bryan
in overriding and ousting the only
man in Mexico who had any SEM
blanee of authority and replacing him
with a nondescript group of banditti
and pretenders, will appeal to Ameri-
cans. But he is followed by the
most distinctive authority in America
upon the foreign affairs of the Ameri-
can people, Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge In an address at Worcester,
Mass, Tuesday evening, Senator
Lodge appealed to the intelligence or
the nation. He summarized condi-
tons there in a way to be under
stood. He described the chaos now
years of "watchful waiting" and pic
tured the devious ways in which the
national administration directed the
action of the United States toward eff
feeling the triumph of one Mexican
faction over another.
In substance Senator Lodge made
it plain that there is no peace IN
Mexico Thestwo leaders who have
figured in the news dispatches for
many months as representing the
Mexican people in struggle for lib
erty, are at daggers' points. Every
day fighting is going on, and the fore
es of each of these leaders are charged
with crimes which would bring
blush OF shame to cannibal tribes.
Villa is determined to be the dictator
of Mexico. Carranza must withdraw
or be eliminated as has been every
human force that has crossed the path
Of this INSCRIPTIONS bandit. Huerta
was accused of only one murder, and
that accusation has never been prov
en- Villa is accused of wholesale
slaughter Of individuals and of whole
communities. and evidence is suf
hcient 10 convict him hundred times
over of shedding human blood to for
ward his own ends Yet the Wash
lIigton administration refused -
recognize Huerta as the head of gov
eminent there, and has succeeded, by
devious methods, in bringing about the
overthrow of Huerta and of enthron-
ing the most scandalous condition of
anarchy existing on the globe in the
twentieth century
According to Senator Lodge, the
chaos in Mexico is plainly the out
come of the Wilson policy or lack of
policy. 1t is the logical development
OF the course taken to wipe gu,
Huerta. To bring about the end ne
had proposed, President Wilson inter-
vehed In Mexico. He seized Vera
- oA OF ehe cAPcHSe VI SCORE IA
American lives, and nobody knows
how many Mexican lives. The seiz-
ure was. we are told, to prevent the
landing of arms for Huerta Presi-
dent Wilson, in lifting the arms en-
barge directly aided Villa, and by
withdrawing United States warships
from Tampico threw that port open to
them. The so-called "A B C confer
ence" was a fizzle, but Huerta left
Mexico. Carranza, who had been the
cover for our protege, Villa, seemed
TO be coming into power, but he
turned against the United States ana
at the present moment no one on
earth can tell how Villa will turn,
except that it will be to his own per-
sonal advantage.
AS said before. there is no peace in
Mexico. and we are not out of that in
famed territory. Our ships and our
soldiers control a port, and are in
possession of "a city At any hour
some act may force this country to as
sumo hostile attitude in Mexico.
where at the present time there is not
the slightest form of government. If
that is record of which the author
of "watchful waiting" can be proud,
then indeed the American peopls
should take seriously the Democra tic
partisan hoorah. Thank God for Will
son. 1t is record of laundering
diplomacy passing through bloodshe6.
as We characterized it somewhat bit
terly. too bitterly, perhaps, at the very
outset Of the stupendous folly of ie-
noring thousand big things to seize
upon an insignificant incident with
which to carry out hollow pretense
The shedding Of the blood of those
boys in Mexico last spring is a blot
upon the American record.
To the critic who takes execution to
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