Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-04-20

tion or another for selfish reasons You will
find innumerabe eXiles with grievance that
has naturally warped their judgment
few years ago these exlcs were in the great
majority of instances bitterly opposed to
American Intervention. They believed that
some strong man would arise and restore
order, or at least a semblance of order that
would permit of a concentrated effort to-,
ward reconstruction. But this idea has
dwindled and vanished until it is now the
earnest desire Of many of those who were
formerly most bitterly opposed to interven-
tion that this Government should at least
adopt a strong moral policy of police inter
vention.
Bullets C. o. D.
We have had it dinned in our ears that
the Mexican people would rise as one man,
that all the warning bands and factions
would unite for national defense the moment
squadron of American troops crossed the
border. There are few apoogsts for watch
full waiting who still entertain this notion.
There would have to be strong leaders and
capable leadership for national defense even
in a far more highly civilized country than.
Mexico. There would have to be available
large resources in munitions of war for de-
fense. OF this resource there is a hopeless
scarcity today. Even with all the leniency
we have exercised in the matter of allowing
arms to be shipped in, the magazines of the
revolutionists are virtually empty. Only
C. o. D.. shipments are going over the border,
and in order to obtain these c. o. D. ship
ments some scouting party must raid few
more cattle ranches and sack few more
haCiendas The tribute that is being levied
upon towns and cities Is being paid nova
days for the most part with promises to pay
The feeding and clothing of the bandit
armies has sapped available cash resources
pretty well down to the vanishing point
The United States Threatened
There is a deeply rooted impression among
eXiled MeXicans nowadays that there is
deadlock in our cabinet over the Villa
Carranza row. The Villistas are confident
that the President favors the "liberator" and
his announced socallstic sympathy for the
submerged So per cent. The Carranzlstas
aver for their part that they have won our
Premier, William Jennings Bryan, to thst
more respectable cause. Now that Huerta
has come back TO our shores, there is some
trepidation in both camps for fear that ~
may explain away the Staying of Madefo
and obtain some sort of sovereign absolution
The entire situation is dreadful muuals
The holocaust of war in Europe has as
tracted our attention from it with the resuA
that the majority of Americans have en-
tirey neglected to consider the suHeFlhsa
and atrocities that are continuously being
inflicted upon nelghborlng nation OF lS'oV9.
900 people, They are menaced this ysl
with an unprecedented corn shoFlAsE
Famine and pestilence may stalk aInons
them as an additional affliction, and II WI
find them in state of anarchy and ehA9a
with nothing that really resembles
eminent to take measures for rellei ~
safety. And pestilence is also likely 70 -
menace our own borders and cause "
erect a quarantine barrier against s'al'a
and desolate and bandit-harried reius
To meet all this we have only the one ws1.
official solution to offer-Watchful "st'A