The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-06-22
TO HELP MEXICO SAVE HERSELF.


His decision that "watchful wait
ing" must give way to helpful ac-
ton" wins President Wilson the ap-
prevail of even the most outspoken
journalistic critics of his Mexican pol
icy. Considerations of humanity, the
relief of famished and broken peo-
pie, indignation with the brawling
guerrilla chiefs who fight for their
own land, anger for the wrongs suf-
fered by our undefended citizens in
Mexico, the enormous imperiled or
ruined American interests in Mexico
all these" declares the New York Sun,
"impel the American people to stand
solidly by Mr., Wilson in whatever
course of firm and deliberate sup
preston of disorder and faction and
protection of natives and foreigners
in Mexico he may be forced to adopt"
The considerations of humanity" as
set forth by the president in his MeXi-
can statement and in his earlier ap-
peal under Red-Cross auspices for
help for the starving people of that
unhappy country, seem almost ire
sistible to most editors. The country,
as the Chicago Herald observes, might
have endured the spectacle of a revo-
luton ridden next-door neighbor a
great deal longer, but it can not and
will not endure indefinitely the sight
of starving nation" And the Spring
field Republican, New York World,
Philadelphia News, Charleston News
and Courier, and Omaha Bee are but a
few of the representative dailies which
this thought.
Yet the New York Tribune and Chi
cago Tribune, though admitting that
so serious situation calls for action
argue strongly and at length to the
effect that the call is no more urgent
than it has been for months, that ac-
earlier might we'll have been deferred
at this time on account of the more
serious issue with Germany, and thai
there is all the more reason to get the
army and navy into better state O
preparedness in order to be able tC
make our words good in both compli
cations That his own "watchful
waiting policy, too, is largely respon
sible for the Mexican situation which
President Wilson would now end il
the opinion of several papers. includ
ing the Albany Knickerbocker Press
New York Journal of Commerce
Brooklyn Standard Union, Philadel
phia Inquirer, Baltimore American
Washington Times, Detroit Ere
Press, and st. Louis Globe Democrat
On the other hand, the New YorI
World is convinced that the long de
lay has brought good many peopl
in Mexico to their senses" and wv
can go into Mexico now. if necessary
in the full confidence that there viii
be no suspicion as to our intentions
and that all Latin America will knoy
that the United States is trying to d
for Mexico what it did for Cuba"
While the New York Evening Pos
does not find a review of Presiden
Wilson's Mexican policy exactly in
spiriting," it notes that he has had
good measure of success in his chic
Objects o -Ag as
'He set himself against the recogni
ton of Huerta, and Hurta is an exil
from Mexico, He strove to keep TIL
United States out of. another Mexica
war, and did it-only, however, by
skilful turning of the corner, throug
the mediation of Argentina, Chile, an
Brazil. Above all, he sought to MAX
it clear to Mexico, to South Americ;
and to all the world that the Unite
States did not wish or intend to ad
foot of it's territy by conquest. Thi
position the president has maintaine
throughout, and has REINFORCED it b
various utterances, so that it may no
be regarded as a settled part of hi