The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-09
JUSTICE To MEXICO
PRESIDENTS: MOTIVE
Declares Republic Has Right to
Settle It's Own Affairs
IF Possible
HAS TRIED TO AVOID
ARMED INTERVENTION
Wilson's Progressive Policy Is
Praised by Democratic
Text Book

An authoritative Interpretation O
PRESIDENT Wilson's Mexican policv i
contained in the Mexican CHAPTER o.
the Democratic National Text bool
just published.
president Wilson's faith in de
mocracy, and the unselfishness of tn,
United States in international deal
1ngs,' says the text book, "have beer
SO, strlkingly expressed in his Mexi.
can policy, that they constitute thu
greatest contribution which the coun
try has made in many years to thu
progressive thought and mankind"
The keynote of Woodrow Wilson.
enoeavor throughout the long, varied
ana dl1tlcult course of Mexican af.
1a1rs is summed up in the chapter.
heading: '"Wilson's demand for Mex
leo is-Justice.'
Inc chapter says, in part:
Must Settle Own Affairs.
The belief, established upon tn,
history of tho world, that Mexico will
never become. a peaceful and law.
ABIDING neighbof of the United State.
until she has been permitted te
achieve a permanent and basic set.
tlement of her troubles with outside
interference.
All Latin-Americans looked on in
tently as the United States dealt witt
Mexico. Suspicion, which had beer
engendered by the long years of mis-.
understanding and mistrust, preced
ing Mr.. Wilson's administration
made the Mexican policy in the eyes
OF our neighbors g. real test of the
sincerity of the friendly :protestation.
the United States was making to ali
the governments of America, The
more fortunate republic of Central
ana South America clearly were OF
the conviction that they could ex.
pect no better treatment for them.
selves in less fortunate circumstances
than the United States would mete
out to Mexico.
It should be-remembered~ that al.
ways in the Presidents mind, there
mad been reservation as to the extent
OF sacrifices which the United States
could make In order to avoid armed
clashes with one Of the offending
Mexican factions. The purpose be-
hind the Vera Cruz expedition was
much the same as that in the Presi-
dents mind later when he ordered
General Pershing into northern Mex.
ico- to break up the Villista faction.
In both cases, the President felt him.
self eminently justified in utilizing
the power of the United States in
crushing the faction of Mexicans who
were engaged in the commission of
1ntolerable wrongs against the United
States.
To Break Huerta Power.
The American forces were not
sent into Vera Cruz to compel a. salute
to the American flag. It was to break
the power Of the dictator, Huerta,
and to bring his bloody reign to- an
end, since in no other way could nor
NAL international relations be re-
stored.
Later, Villa adopted Huerta's pol
Icy of attempting to provide Amer
lean Intervention. He hoped by arous-
ing their national pride to rally to his
standard many of Carranza's soldiers
and to present himself to the ignorant
Mexican people in the guise Of their
would-be savior from a foreign in
vader. On Jan. ~, 1916, he caused
the murder Of II American citizens
near Piedras Negras, Mex. March 8,
he personally led q raiding band
across the border and attacked the
town of Columbus, New Mexico. The