The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-07-01
A GLANCE AHEAD

The most of us can recall the national spirit which
pervaded our land on the engagement of our so-called war
with Spain, yet that affair will stand in history as nothing
compared with what a real war with Mexico will prove.
In Mexico there are hundreds of thousands of men who
have military training of a sort, and who, thanks to the
short-sighted policy of our own government, are well
supplied with arms and ammunition. 10 a man they hate
us with the frenzy of zealots, and, while it is reasonable to
oppose that they are no match for the inferior numbers
we array against them, it is likewise reasonable to INFER
that they will be able to give an account OF themselves
that will bring woe and suffering to thousands Of Ameri-
can homes.
They will be fighting in their own land and fighting
against those whom they, in their ignorance, regard
as invaders and oppressors. They will have the advan-
tage of numerical strength, of a knowledge of the country,
and of naturalization, factors that are not to be cons1d-
cred lightly. They are for the most part densely ignorant,
it is true, but they are possessed of a patriotic tervor, and,
fighting, as they will be from their viewpoint, for their
affairs and their fires, they may be depended upon to de-
liver some telling blows.
If war really comes, and it seems inevitable, 1t is go
ing to be one of great bloodshed and expense. We all OF
us realize this, yet we contemplate the prospect, II not
18th complacency, at least with a sort of stolld lnd1tfer-
ence indicative of a loss of that finer something in Our
natures which through the refining process OF the ages
ted us from savagery.
Such has been the influence Of the European war
Don our own land, removed as it is from the scene of
horror by a thousand leagues of foaming sea.
The Mexicans are worse than the Fiipinos. To keep
American order among them would call for a company
of soldiers stationed in each parish for a generation to
come, and then those who remained unkilled would be the
same creatures still. It's bad business, and you can make
nothing else out of it.
We interviewed, in a way when we backed Carranza
and Villa against Huerta. Huerta was then regarded as
too bad a man for us to recognize. But Villa turned out
to be a worse bandit than Huerta, and the great and good
Carranza is uncertain. By Washington orders these two
worthless were permitted to procure munitions in America
with which to DESTROY Huerta, but now they may use
those guns and munitions against their American we'll
wishers and benefactors.
To an Inquirer: In 1912 Taft had 3,4S4o56 votes,
Roosevelt 4,IIo,5o7 and Wilson 6~,2o3,SIO. The total of
Taft and Roosevelt was 7~,6o4y4o3, which is I,3II,444 more
than Wilson had. If the republicans and progressives can
re united that is the way the vote will stand this year,
that is the popular vote. But in 1912 there were a great
many republican votes which were cast for Wilson, be-
cause the men who cast them were disguised with the
whole inter REPUBLICAN fight.
The first vessel of the Swiss merchant marine recent
" sailed from New York, flying the national flag. The
extraordinary situation of Switzerland, surrounded by
war and the usual highways blocked, rendered the step
necessary to obtain essential supplies. France made it
possible by loaning the Swiss a small part of the Gulf of