The Alaska daily empire., 1915-06-11
FINANCIAL PAPER ENDCRES WILSON'S
 MEXICAN NogE

Exhaustion typihes tho situation that has grown up between us and our neighbors to the south.-exhau5t lon of tho Presidents long.surerins and optimigtic patience. and even more SO threatened complete econom. lie exhaustion Of raYaged Mexico. Her ltroubles In the bcginnlng sprang from ocoaomic wrongs now she faces the more desperate economic peril of im- minent starvation because Che effort to right the hrat conditions went about as wrong as t could 80.
 The picture drawn in the Presideuts note. based doubtless on the observa- lions of his own agent is sufficient summons calling on the sense Of hu- manlty and justice of the President and government to "serve their neigh. bor.' That neighbor's distress is now extreme, and in itself apparentlyI hopeless. The picture could be maEe even darker fl there were to be Incl cluded the indignities and atrocities visited on some Of our own people but it is professedly not from the viewpoint Of self that we are acting
 The note is In itself rather frank confession of the disappointment yis tied upon a too generous optimism orI idealism, which "iustinchyely and generously sympahtized" with the al leged purposes of economic libera- l tion. Admission Is now necessary chat the leaders proclaiming these purposes have been traitors to real patriotism. and that their unayaiiing factionahsm today spells anarchy. The Mexcans have been given lib- eral term to work il out" for them selves but seem to have been inter. enuy unable. The fruits of the or. deal may later appear but they are not yet visible.
 There may have been mistakes in our official attitude. as regards such matters as arms shipments, the atti- tude toward Huerta, the going to Vera Cruz. or tho failure then to go farther; but it is easy now for hind- sight to critlcise, especially when con- ditions were so mixed As regards, for example, the easy suggestion that an would have been cured by recogniz- ing Huerta, is 1t likely that Huerta could have lasted where Diaz didn't? The speculation must always remain as to whether in the long run. the best judgment was made as to time limits. The bald fact now is clear that the experiment of the free hand to the Mexican "reformers' has been @ dismal failure.
 The virtual admission that the Mex. Ican leaders have so traduced their cause and their country tends in itself to undermine the only alternative ex- pressed by the President to direct ac- ton by us.-the getting together of these wrangling chiefs, or the active support by us of some man or group -'if such may be found'-who can cally the Mexican people for their own redemption. Tn view of recent Mexican history, these contingencies are not matters of lively hope And the calIber of these chleftains does not encourage confidence that they win. after their long distain of us, deeply heed the present notice.
 Tn such unfortunate case, we then shall "bc constrained 10 decide what means should be epmloyed' by us to help out Mexico. Here is an mccr. tain and dubious. but apparently not avoidable. possibility of some degree of intervention And this question colncides with the remote com tingency in another directlon-what the words. or even acts, might have to be which Germany should not ex- pect us to omit.
 Here there confront us two burdens. | probable and possible, in the name of humanity.-(B (Boston News Bureau)
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