New Britain herald., 1916-07-01
Had We Recognized Huerta?
(New York World)

If we had recognized Huerta this trouble would not have happened" Such was the remark of Henry Lane Wilson at the conclusion of a ong discussion of the Mexican situa- ion with MT. Hughes. Such has been inc tenor of everything that MT. Hughes has had to say upon the one feature of our foreign relations on which he speaks with vigor. Such Is fthe plaint of Big Business, the ranch owners, the holders of concessions and all the jingoes.
 Henry Lane Wilson was President Taft's Am bassador to Mexico when Huerta betrayed President Madero and seized dictatorial powers. It was for Huerta's benefit that Madero was murdered. It was to confirm and perpetuate Huerta's usurpation that the Mexican congress was inn prisoned and the judges of Mexican courts were dispersed.
 There has been no change in Henry Lane Wilson. He boasts today, as he did in MT. Tafts time, of his admira- tion for Huerta, the tyrant. He is .as cOntemptuOus now as then of tho constitutional president who was shot in the back. He was critical of Mr Taft because he did not recognize Huerta, and he has been criticising President Wilson ever since becarse in that respect he has followed the example of his predecessor.
 While there are many who mourn for Huerta, Henry Lane Wilson is the most inconsolable of all the sOrroWlng throng. He not only lost an intl- mate friend when Huerta passed away; he also lost an ambassador used before in partisan activities which did much to promote ill-fcel- ing between Mexico and the United States.
 We arc well accustomed to Henry Lane Wilson's grief and may easily ignore it. What concerns the Amer ican people at this moment Is the more restrained woe of Charles E. Hughes, the on-to- Mexico republican jingo press, the gluttonous interests that are so friendly to every scheme of exploitation and annexation, and, lastly, the paid agents of the kaiser in this country. Here is grief of that deep-seated variety which ought to melt heart of stone.
 Huerta died in the custody of the United States with German money in his pockets, an offender against our laws. Let us suppose that he had been recognized as the lawful Mexican despot when he set up his murdarCns rule in 1913. He would have been an amia able neighbor in 1915 and 1916 would he not, when we were in She sha.cDest of controversies with his pa tron, the kaiser?
 There is the Monroe Doctrine for which pra ctically every American pro- fesses a willingness to fight. That principle, simply stated forbids the extension by European mona cchies of their royal systems to this hemis- phere. Would a little king pr en- peror or prince in Ecuador or Nicaragua or Bolivia be more a 'nen- ace to our liberties than a red handed despot next door in Mexico?
 Questions as to Mexico may deter
 mine thef result of the presidential election. They epitomize most of the issues raised elsewhere, such as Amer icanism, Nemocracy, monopoly. priv ilege prepA Aredness and the intrlgues of alhns hqAstile to the government of the Uoited rtates. Let all those re- pubiicne. | r~fore. whose hearts are | breakllr i'd N{uerta be as sincere as 1 Henry an uson and wear their grief up1 r sleeves so that iden- l tificatonr be easy and certain.
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