Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-06-29
An Election And An Issue.

Brought face TO face with the stern necessity OF
welding I'D the imprisoned American troopers or meet
ing war with the United States. Carranza yielded he
ordered the 10th cavalrymen taken from chihuahua
Jail TO Julrez and released. -
He had iouted Uncle Sam up to the last moment
Of federation H. had played upon the obvious de
sire Of ihc administration avoid any clash With
Mexican authority no matter how fictitious t'at iuth-
ority might be.
"a lew months ago German diplomacy was ought
fcf 10 face with break in relations with the nited
State upon the si9niaTiue issue For year Berlin
had avoided definite statement The interchange OF
notes had produced nothing tangible for Uncle Sam
Ia the way of redress. One supposed promise OF
snelioraton made through Ambassador Won Bern
storff had turned out be either unauthorized or
afterward repudiated by the kaiser's government.
Theermit of federation reached, President Wilson
brought affairs to climax with note which meant
tther that Berlin must yield or relations would be
severed
In both the Mexican and the Gernan&risis Amer
can forbearance was tensed to the very limit OF
strength In both instances, when President Wilson
delivered an ultifnatum, America won. Peace and
dipomatc relations were preserved with Germany,
and peace and diplomatic relations will probably be
preserved with Mexico
Thus the American point is being carried-after
pasions subterfuges and exchanges SO numerous and
unsatisfactory that they are extremely irritating to the
american peope-but carried and peace maintained.
The exchanges with the Allied Powers, particularly
With Britain over the lawless hold-up of mails at sea
furnish another instance of American forbearance
openly abused This ISSUE like the commercial block
4de issue has been largely lost sight of because the
>rbmarine crisis touched American lives instead OF
properly but II is an issue which the administration
IS pressing with steadily increasing force, and On
hich the diplomats of London continue to resort to
<<zsion and part-compiance
There is widespread protest among the American
.tope against diplomacy which allows national pres
'3e thus to be menaced There is much dssatisfac-
ton with the delays in securing redress, fot, as in
he Lusitana case is it perfectly apparent that in the
md we secure but some of our de
hands are not met at all
Whether the majority of the american people up
bold diplomacy which preserves peace at the cost
M accepting partial redress and continual outing is
Question the election this fall should determine.
President Wilson stands for the attitude of tolera-
[6h to the limit
What Candidate Hughes stands for it is impossible
how to say for he has not proposed action on any
.Scifc foreign issue But his first campaign utter
nee on the afternoon of his nomination. showed that
. does not stand for the Wilson course.
The issue let us hope will be clean-cu SO that the
0sre of the American people as whole may be def
.tely expressed They know that when America
IS brought an international controversy sharply to a
max the American point has been won. When force
VAS put behind diplomacy the combination won. But
IS quite evident that the president unwillingly and
last resort only, puts force behind his diplomacy
Is IS paci6st policy.
Perhaps the American people as whole support
his policy The Star-Buletin does not think SO, but
..rhaps Il is the case If Candidate Hughes declares
/1ctly where he stands, the American people will
have the chance to express at the balotbox the senti-
-..t expressed imperfecty and inefectvely through
|/ other mediums during the past two years