Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-04-13

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Tho Herald h the Oldest newspaper
on Grays Harbor and It has wider
circulation than has any other news
paper In Chehalis county.
Humphrey, the Osmaeoeus.
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Congressman Humphrey Il never
happy In or out Of congress except
when berating the democratic admin.
istraaion; and his diatribes are usually
q tho style Of theI. WV: soap BOZ
orators froth and 'souhd.' This ii.
legsd statesman worked OH one Of
his stock speeches in Tacoma last
week. in the course Of whteh he At
tributed the dull times to the new
tariff law, and announced that when
the republicans secured power they
would repeal the Underwood law and
prosperity would appear automatic
ally.
Mr.. Humphrey, in common with 9TH
or prominent calamity howlers, seeks
to lay the blame Of the present Do
preston to this law, in spite Of the
fact that since the outbreak Of the
European war American factories
have had no competition with any for.
eign country. The present is an ideal
period for prosperity according to high
protectionists. II all tariffs were sus-
pended at this time there would be
no cheap labor products coming from
Europe. The unfortunate people
across the Atlantic are otherwise en-
gagged.
The Underwood tariff law was en-
acted in obedience to the demand Of
the people, who, rebuking the Payne
Aldrich bill, in 1910 and again in
1912 ordered the tariff revised down.
ward. According to Mr.. Humphrey
and the. standpat press, the people
are damphools and do not know what
10 good for them.
The Mexican situation does not
please Mr.. Humphrey either, and he
said at Tacoma:
Sometimes they ask me what
! would do. II had been handling
the Mexican situation. Well, for
one thing would exchange right
quick q magnificent Chautauqua
performer for secretary Of state
and then would serve notice on
those rowing bands Of bandits in
Mexico that there would be no
more murders of Americans or
something would happen to them.
There was time when the Amer
lean flag meant something; when
It meant something to be an Am
erican citizen"
There's an offhand solution Of this
vexatious problem that entirely salts
hes the narrow mind of the congress-
man. Change secretaries and serve
notice! For simplicity, who can beat
It? Some day a monument will be
erected in honor of Mr.. Humphrey for
this brilliant conception. In the mean.
time, It is interesting to read a SEN
sible, unbiased view of the Mexican
situation.
We reprint below an editorial from
the current number Of the Saturday
Evening Post, "The Mexican Case:
ever since the refusal to recognize
Huerta the only probable alternative
to the course actually pursued by the
United States has been war of a de-
cidedly more serious sort than that
with Spain in 1898. This is the point
that critics of the Presidents Mexican
policy usually gloss over. Possibly the
refusal to recognize Huerta was a
mistake. Certainly none of his would
be successors seems to equal him in
ability.
Irrespective Of that question, the
highest interest of the United States
has consisted in avoiding war by
every tolerable means, and that in
terest the President has unflinchingly
pursued.
"For two years the situation there
has been irritating to high degree;
In fact, beginning badly it has pref
ty steadily grown worse-sliding down
into more chaotic weller. To point
that ont and to imply that it brands
the Presidents policy with failure lie
easy enough; but there is no proba-
bility that the President could have
improved the situation except by mill
tary conquest Of the country; and
there has never been time when the
object was worth the price.
ITO put the case fairly. criticism of
the Presidents course should be &C
companied by frank acknowledgment
that the only probable alternative to
that course was war on the largest
scale since 1865. Put in that way.
we have not the least doubt that an
overwhelming majority Of citizens
would uphold the President.
'sWar with Mexico is not merely a
question Of defeating certain bands