Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-08-05
MEXICO is HELL.

General villa, one OF the MeAlcdA
military leaders who with the others
Is engaged in making bloody desert
out of a fertile land, has grown con.
temptuous of the United States and
told this country that If 1t makes any
more protests against his methods OF
ill-treating foreigners, 1t can go 10
HE'LL
Without meaning to, villa has given
this country some very GOOD aoVlce.
Mexico under the present lack OF law
and order, comes about as near oelng
hell az can be found on the surface o!
the earth. 1t is certainly the duty OF
this country to go to this nell just
south of our borders, and take charge
of the country until 1t has ceased TO
be hell.
Everything points to the certainty
that sooner or later the United States
will have to take charge OF Mexico,
notice it. educate it, and when 1t gets
40 it can govern itself and will govern
itself. then and not till then, recall
our soldiers.
ignorance is the curse of Mexico.
II the masses of the people-there are
nfteen million of them-had even the
r1,diments of education, they would no
longer permit themselves to be lea
from one revolution into another at
the behest of some ambitious, blood
thirsty. impecunious military leader or
disgruntled politician.
4 decade of education during which
time American soldiers would keep the
land at peace, would make 1t new
Mexco: the people would gain the
American idea of government by right
az the majority and according to estaD-
Nshed law. while the naturally rlcn
lands would be developed to an extent
hitherto undreamed of by the people
Of Mexico.
literally sending our armies into hell,
hut they could do it in short order and
bring order out of chaos.
AZ far back as four years ago, 1t
could be seen that eventually the
Tinted States would have to step In
and assume temporary control OF
Mexico in the interests of. law and or
der. That program is forced upon us
nv the Monroe doctrine When we say
To other nations that they must not
come to the western continents for
anv such purpose, then we assume the
responsibility of making 1t unneces-
earv for them to come. The Monroe
doctrine protects the Americas from
foreign aggression, but it also confers
responsibilities upon the United
States.
In assuming that responsibility, the
limited States should make every ef-
fort to fully enlighten the Mexicans
"a to our purposes. There should be
published in every Mexican paper and
disseminated and made known In
every other way possible, the complete
program of this nation: that 1t Is SIM
ply stepping in to secure order, that
It has no intention of securing any
new or additional territory, that its In
terests lie wholly in restoration OF
FOOD government and proper develop
ment Of Mexico's wonderful resources,
md that the cooperation of the Mex
lean people is greatly desired.
And when this Is done, then the
United States, for It's part, should
realize that it has undertaken a sol
emn duty and that it must be prepared
to carry out its plans In their entirety
rexardless of whether it takes five or
f,fty years to get Mexico on plane
where the United States soldiers can
ha Withdrawn with certainty that
Mexico's reign of bloody revolutions
ii at an end.