The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-06-20
MEXICO.

The serious crisis in the Mexican situation is one that doubtless even the most shortsighted man in the street has seen coming. It is prob- ably certain that when United States troops crossed into Mexico, no mat ter what was the occasion for such a step, that in itself violated the national integrity and as such was regarded by the Mexican people.
 It is doubtful if there is any na. ton in the would would regard with indifference or equanimity the invasion or it's soil by an alien band of troops and the Mexicans, a nation Of some what nervous and irascible tempera" ment could hardly have observei it with continued phlegm.
 That war will result IS highl5 probable, if indeed a condition Of war may not be said to exist, anc while a good many Americans With supreme confidence in the army ana navy and militia may consider it a small task to defeat the Mcxicans, if is hardly to be considered such d very simple matter.
 In the first place it is only by a stretch of imagination that one can consider Carranza as in control of q government. And while war would be declared by him, it is doubtful II he cen end it. An American war would unite every Mexican faction: Zapatist, Diazite or Villatist. They would flock to the Carranza banner and would without question present quite formidable opposition.
 The final outcome no one doubts. With superior equipment and orga- nization with better and more se- cure supplies there could be but one ending to the war and that is the final triumph of the United States. But the United States would find itself in the peculiar position O. fighting not the Mexican govern ment but the Mexican people. Ii fighting the Carranza government when the Carrrcnza government was defeated on the field, then could peace reasonably be anticipated. But Carranza will be as powerlcss tG make a peace therCGftvr now than he is at the present time to unite under his supremacy all the discord- ant factions.
 Therefore when this war starts there can be no ordinary ending un- til the Mexican people themselves surrender their arms and cease fighting. That too would continue ony just so long as the United States only just so long as the United States forces were in Mexico and it is self evident that the very minute that the United States invades Mexico, there and then Mexican independence will have permanently disappeared. No Mexican leader will arise who will be authorized by his people to make terms with the Americans and any thing and every thing will be done to resist to the last. It can end only in the accept ance of United States dominance and that will only happen when the war has become a guerilla fight and later a chase of isolated bandits through the hills.
 Any person who has followed Mexican papers carefully knows very we'll that the Mexicans have no very elevated conception of the reason for American interference. They regard it as being based upon the vice of covetousness and they feel that it is to uphold the land grabbing citizens of the United States in their land and mine loot that the trouble has started.
 Even American correspondents have made the people familiar with this point of view and it is not al together baseless.
 It is certainly shared by the rest of the Latin American states and the invasion of Mexico is one thing that above anything else will be followed by serious effect upon the relations of the United States and the South and Central Amer ican republics.