The Ocala evening star., 1915-01-27
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
MEXICAN POLICY
(By Alfred w. Lawson)

has been SO far nothing short of the
shirking of duty-the putting off of
a necessary task onto the shoulders
of one of his successors. For just
as certain as expansion is the funda-
mental law of growth just so sure
must Mexico eventually become part
of the United States of Amarica.
Nature has made war among the
human species necessary part of it's
existence in order to teach man the
rules of expansion and the organiza-
ton of small and competing parts in
to a greater and more developed
whole.
Just so long as we have competitive
nations just so long will we have de-
structive wars. The fewer the compe-
ting nations naturally the fewer will
be the wars.
If every state in the United States
was a separate country in itself with
its own distinct government and ruler
instead of all coming under one feder-
al head and one set of rules, then
there would be an almost continual
state of war carried on between them
in the same manner that war is peri
odically carried on between the diff
erent countries of Europe While, on
the other hand, if the European coun-
tries were organized into one complete
whole as the case of the United States
of America with one head and one set
of rules for all there would be no
further necessity for wars breaking
tout among them.
/ For instance, the different states of
Germany do not make war upon each
other today although there was a
time before they were combined into
one complete empire and brought un-
der the direction of one head and one
set of laws when Prussia, Bavaria,
Saxony, Silesia, ct al, were constantly
fighting among themselves. Combina-
tion, therefore, in this case entirely
eliminated competition and strife be-
tween them.
This same rule must naturally ap-
ply to the United States and Mexico
these two countries must combine in
order to eliminate all further compe-
tition and strife. If we must fight
20 accomplish this end why then we
must fight, that's all. Since when,
nyway, has it become a part of the
american spirit to be afraid to fight !?
If we must fight to accomplish a
necessary task why shirk our duty
and shift the responsibility to the
shoulders of the next generation
What would there have been to the
United States of America today had
our forefathers shirked duties and re-
fused to go into the American wars
of the past? Their fearlessness and
foresightedness and strenuous action
created the expansion and growth of
the United States to its present gen
erous proportions.
Are we, then, to be the weak sons
of strong men who fear to exercise
our natural functions and grow
stronger and larger? To claim that
we are strong and large enough now
is about as silly as to try and stop
the robust boy of sixteen from fur
. ther growth.
Furthermore, President Wilson's re.
! cent statement that the Mexican tur.
. moil is none of our business is as fun
damentally wrong and weak as if he
made the same statement in connec
. ton with a crowd of cut-throats who
might happen to be his next dool
neighbors and who were continually
. shooting and slashing one another tt
pieces. 1t would be his duty in sucl
a case to bring law and order to bea1
upon his riotous neighbors even if h,
had to sacrifice a few able bodied po
licemen to do it. Just so it become
/ his duty to bring law and order t,
! bear upon our Mexican neighbors ever
if some of our national policemen
must be sacrificed to do so.
The Mexicans have given ampl
proof during the past of their abso
lutte inability to govern themselve
properly. It is simply continuation
of the performance down there of on
revolution after another conducted un
: !. der the direction and in the interest o
Z bandits and semi-savages. This stat
Z of affairs must. go on indefinitely be
= cause the people as whole are give
no voice In the government. Thos