The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-30
UNITED STATES MUST PROCEED
 CAREFULLY TO MAKE PLAIN ITS
 INTENTION FOR LATIN NATIONS
Barrier of Suspicion Must Be Overcome Says Secretary Lane and He Tells How President Has Done Noble Work to Effect End -Neighbor's Sewage Running Ov- on Our Property.
Villa and Carranza had broken and

Villa and Carranza had broken and there was a double sovereignty claim ed even on our border in Northern Mexico. Things were going from bad to worse, and it was suggested in the cabinet that there should be some de- termination by the United States CT in Mexico as leader of a successful revolution should be recognized as a ''de facto" government.
 Secretary of State Lansing there upon called a conference of the rep- resentatives of Argentina, Brazil Chile. Bolivia, Uruguay, and Guate- mala and asked them, from their knowledge of the situation-for a con- siderable portion of the information in the hands of the United States came through the representatives of these countries in Mexico-to cooperate with him in the determination of the claimant to be recognized. The six Latin American countries unanimously recommended the recognition of Car ranza, and in furtherance of our Pan- American policy this recognition was at once given by the United States and Latin America.
 Since Carranza's recognition we have seen Americans who have gone into Mexico on peaceful errands mur- dered; we have seen our own towns upon the border raided and Americans slain on American soil. These out rages prompted the President to send our own troops into Mexico, and this course cannot be otherwise construed than as a recognition of the fact that the de facto government in Mexico recognized by ourselves and by other nations is not fulfilling the duty which one government owes to another.
 We are in Mexico to-day. and how long we shall stay and how far we shall go depends upon the policy and the power to keep the peace of the Carranza government, but we shall go no farther than we have gone until every effort to secure effective Mexi- can cooperation fails.
 Mexico is a bad neighbor now. There is no use denying this. We live at peace with Canada on our northern border, without a soldier along 5000 miles of land, while, as a matter of necessity, we are obliged to keep an armed force on our Mexican border all of the time, and have now gathered there the largest army assembled in the United States since the Civil War. The superficial reason for this is that Mexico cannot settle her own trou- bles at home and that the "de facto" government has been unable to pre- vent bandits from harassing us.
 Our neighbours sewerage is running over into our lot, and we must find some way to stop it even if we have to go over the boundary line and stop the pipes ourselves. This Is the easi- est thing in the world to say, but to respect the letter of the law and at the same time abate @ nuisance that is not on your own property is one of the most difficult things in the world.
 Mexico will always be a nuisance to us until a few fundamental re- forms are put into effect there. If it is to be lasting however. some one outside of Mexico must do it. It can not be done by us unless we are pre- pared not only to conquer Mexico but to annex Mexico. We should not only have to make war on Mexico and impose peace by force. but after giv- ing that country temporary cleaning up we should have to establish and maintain indefinitely a government there.