Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-04-30
ONLY UNThINKlNG
WOULD CR|TICISE
RECALL Of ARMY
President Academy Politi-
cal Science Thinks Mis-
sion Fulfilled.
GIVE CARRANZA A
CHANCE OUR DUTY
DR.. l.. 5. Rowe Declares Belief That
Only Fear OF Drastic Action by Con.
gress ImpelIeA Wilson to Send
Expedition after Villa.

Philadelphia, Pa. April 29.--Presi-
dent Wilson feared congress would
force drastic action in Mexico and
sent the punitive expedition after
Francisco Villa to forestal this, DR..
l. S. Rowe, of the University of
Pennsylvania. president of the Amer
lean academy of political and social
science, told the members of the acad-
envy here this afternoon.
"Unless l am very much mistaken, >
said DR.. Howe, the president Of the
United States would never have sent
a punitive expedition into Mexico if
he had not feared that the congress
of the United States would force him
to measures more radical and more
drastic. If be had been in a position
to depend on the solf-control, the patti
ence and forbearance of congress, 7
believe he would have said to the
American people:
"'The sending of a punitive force
into Mexico will endanger the cardi-
nal principle of our Mexican policy
namely the establishments of order
within the republic. Such an expedi-
tion cannot help but undermine the
de facto government by arousing a
suspicion in the minds of the Mexican
people that their government is d
party to foreign invasion. 1t will
make the re-estab lishment of order in
Mexico more difficult because it will
encourage revolutionary leaders to
call upon the Mexican people 10 GUST
the invading foreigner. BY sending
| our troops into Mexico we become
the mere plaything Of events; any un-
toWar 4incidant may precipibate a
prolonged and blood ystruggle with
the Mexican nation
"The fact that we are encountering
great difficulty in finding the leader
Of the brigands is an indication of the
| forebearance which we should show
in giving to the Mexican government
ample time to bring the outlaws to
Justice It is unworthy of a great ma
ton such as ours to engage in a mere
man hunt on foreign soil. The de
facto government of General Car
rama is now in control, and we can
we'll afford to leave with him the
responsibility of hunting out the
wrong doors. He is in a far better
position to do this than we. Let us
by all means hold the CarranZa gov
eminent responsible for the punish
ment of the wrongdoers, but let us
not embark upon policy, the immedi-
ate consequence of which may be that
| in endeavoring to wreak vengeance on
a few outlaws we find ourselves
forced to wage war on sixteen mil
lions of innocent people.
Should withdraw Troops.
"Today when the real purpose Of
the punitive expedition has been ac-
complished, when the band of out
laws have hcen dispersed and so many
of it's members killed the large and
courageous thing to do would be to
say to the country:
"'Our mission in Mexico, if a mis-
sion it was, is fulfilled. We withdraw
our troops, satisfied that the Carranza
government will make the best en-
deavor to fulfill its promises. We dc
mot wish to endanger our amicable re-
lations with the Mexican people by
continuing the delicate and anomalous
situation created by the presence OF
United States soldiers on Mexican
SOIL
"While such a policy would arouse
immediate criticism from the unthink-
ing, especially in this year of presi-
Dental Campaigning, I firmly believe
\ that it would soon receive the ap.
: proval of the sound and sober judg-
ment of the American people.
eve can do much to assist Mexico
in the solution of her grave domestic
problems, but we must not delude
ourselves with the thought. that we
are better able to solve them than
|Mexico herself. or that we can great
w accelerate their lasting solution
through a policy either of dictatior
or armed Intervention. Mexico must
make enormous sacrifices in order tc
educate her people and to increase
their industrial efficiency; she must
make stupendous effort to develop
small landholding class, and she
must provide highly organized sys'
tenn of protective legislation for hel
laboring classes"
Asks "Square Deal" For Japs.
"souare deal" for the Japanese
|this was the appeal made by the Rev
Sidney L. Gulick, an officer OF the
Federal council of the Churches o.
Christ in America, who made a triE
to Japan last year.
DR.. Gulick said. in part:
"shall our oriental policy be baset
lon national selfishness with race
pride. arrogance and disdain? Shall